Contains about 60 per cent of the Amazon rainforest and borders every South American country except Chile and Ecuador.
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Brazil
Federative Republic of Brazil · Brasil
South America
· South America
0Population
8.52Mkm² of land
$8.72KGDP / person
BrasíliaCapital
- ISO codes
- BR · BRA
- Density
- 25 /km²
- Languages
- Portuguese
- Currency
- Brazilian real (BRL)
- Dial code
- +55
- Internet domain
- .br
- Time zones
- 16
- Coastline
- Has a coast
- Map centre
- 12.0990° S, 49.5590° W
- Demonym
- Brazilian
- UN region
- Americas · South America
- Economy
- Emerging region: BRIC
- Income group
- Upper middle income
- Total GDP
- $1.84T
- Sovereignty
- Independent · UN member
- Borders
- 10
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By the numbers
How Brazil stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
6th
of 242 · 2.75% of world population
Land area
6th
of 242 · 5.68% of world land
GDP per person
113th
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
183rd
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about Brazil
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Population is about 211,049,527 people, the 6th largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly 2.75 per cent of everyone alive.
Covers 8,515,767 km², making it the 6th largest country here - about 8.5 times the size of Egypt.
Population density is about 25 people per km².
The capital is Brasília, at 15.78° S, 47.92° W, with a metropolitan population of about 3,716,996.
Shares land borders with 9 countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Guyana and Paraguay (and 4 more).
Has its own coastline and direct access to the open sea.
Spans 16 time zones, from America/Araguaina to America/Sao Paulo.
The currency is the Brazilian real (BRL, symbol R$).
The official language is Portuguese.
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Cities
The largest places we hold coordinates for. Click a row to fly the map there.
1
São Paulo
São Paulo
23.5567° S, 46.6270° W
18.85M
2
Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro
22.9231° S, 43.2270° W
11.75M
3
Belo Horizonte
Minas Gerais
19.9131° S, 43.9170° W
5.58M
4
Porto Alegre
Rio Grande do Sul
30.0481° S, 51.2020° W
3.92M
5
★ Brasília
Distrito Federal
15.7814° S, 47.9180° W
3.72M
6
Recife
Pernambuco
8.0737° S, 34.9176° W
3.65M
7
Fortaleza
Ceará
3.7481° S, 38.5819° W
3.6M
8
Salvador
Bahia
12.9680° S, 38.4819° W
3.48M
9
Curitiba
Paraná
25.4181° S, 49.3219° W
3.08M
10
Campinas
São Paulo
22.8981° S, 47.1020° W
2.79M
🧭 Worth the trip
Christ the Redeemer
Wonder
A 30 m art-deco figure on Corcovado, struck by lightning several times a year and repaired with its own quarry stone.
Amazon Rainforest
Wildlife
One in ten known species on Earth lives here, and the forest generates a large share of its own rainfall.
Rio de Janeiro
City
Granite peaks drop straight into the Atlantic, and the world's largest urban forest sits inside the city limits.
Land neighbours
9 countries share a border with Brazil.