Brazil

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Codes and identifiers

ISO alpha-2
BR
ISO alpha-3
BRA
ISO numeric
076
FIPS 10-4
BR
GeoNames ID
3469034

Key facts

Capital
Brasilia
Area
8,511,965 km²
Population
209,469,333
Currency
Real (BRL)
Calling code
+55
Top-level domain
.br
Official languages
pt-BR,es,en,fr

Continent

Name
South America
Code
SA
In this dataset
14 countries

South America in the country atlas

Location

Latitude
-10
Longitude
-55
Min latitude
-33.74228037499992
Min longitude
-74.01847469099994
Max latitude
5.267224833000029
Max longitude
-28.877064581999946

Boundary

Brazil

The API call behind this page

Request

curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
  "https://geosearch.dev/v1/countries/BR?fields=iso_code,iso3_code,name,capital,population,area_sq_km,currency_code,continent_code"

Response

{
  "data": {
    "area_sq_km": 8511965,
    "capital": "Brasilia",
    "continent_code": "SA",
    "currency_code": "BRL",
    "iso3_code": "BRA",
    "iso_code": "BR",
    "name": "Brazil",
    "population": 209469333
  }
}

Formatted for reading. The API returns the same JSON on one line.

Other endpoints for this country

  • /v1/countries/BR/regions
  • /v1/cities?country=BR
  • /v1/postal-codes?country=BR
  • /v1/timezones?country=BR
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Name in other languages

Arabic
البرازيل
Chinese
巴西
English
Brazil
French
Brésil
German
Brasilien
Hindi
ब्राज़िल
Italian
Brasile
Japanese
ブラジル
Korean
브라질
Portuguese
Brasil
Russian
Бразилия
Spanish
Brasil
Total language variants
158

The API returns any of them with ?lang=.

Time zones

IANA ID UTC offset DST offset
America/Araguaina UTC-03:00 UTC-03:00
America/Bahia UTC-03:00 UTC-03:00
America/Belem UTC-03:00 UTC-03:00
America/Boa_Vista UTC-04:00 UTC-04:00
America/Campo_Grande UTC-04:00 UTC-04:00
America/Cuiaba UTC-04:00 UTC-04:00
America/Eirunepe UTC-05:00 UTC-05:00
America/Fortaleza UTC-03:00 UTC-03:00
America/Maceio UTC-03:00 UTC-03:00
America/Manaus UTC-04:00 UTC-04:00
America/Noronha UTC-02:00 UTC-02:00
America/Porto_Velho UTC-04:00 UTC-04:00
America/Recife UTC-03:00 UTC-03:00
America/Rio_Branco UTC-05:00 UTC-05:00
America/Santarem UTC-03:00 UTC-03:00
America/Sao_Paulo UTC-03:00 UTC-03:00

Postal code format

Format
#####-###
Pattern
^\d{5}-\d{3}$

First-level administrative regions

  • São Paulo
  • Minas Gerais
  • Rio de Janeiro
  • Bahia
  • Paraná
  • Rio Grande do Sul
  • Pernambuco
  • Ceará
  • Pará
  • Santa Catarina
  • Maranhão
  • Goiás
  • Amazonas
  • Paraíba
  • Espírito Santo
  • Rio Grande do Norte
  • Mato Grosso
  • Alagoas
  • Piauí
  • Mato Grosso do Sul
  • Federal District
  • Sergipe
  • Rondônia
  • Tocantins

24 of 27 shown, largest first

Largest cities

City Population
São Paulo 12,400,232
Rio de Janeiro 6,747,815
Belo Horizonte 2,721,564
Salvador 2,711,840
Fortaleza 2,400,000
Manaus 2,219,580
Brasília 2,207,718
Curitiba 1,948,626
Recife 1,653,461
Goiânia 1,536,097

Coverage in this dataset

Cities
72,391
First-level regions
27
Postal codes
5,525
Name languages
158
Boundary polygon
Yes

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