The World Record of ‘largest number of twin births in a city’ has been achieved by Linha Sao Pedro from Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.

Cândido Godói is a municipality of 6,641 inhabitants in Brazil near the Argentine border it has set a record of the high number of twins born. The twin phenomenon is centered in Linha São Pedro, a small settlement in the city of Cândido Godói, in an ethnically homogeneous population of German descent.