Brazil

Brazil is the largest country in and the fifth largest in the world. Brazil is an incredibly diverse country, in people, culture, and landscapes—from the famous summer carnaval in , , , and to the wild power of nature in the Amazon and .
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo.

is the second largest city in Brazil, on the South Atlantic coast. Rio is famous for its breathtaking landscape, its laid-back beach culture and its annual carnival.

, or Sampa as it is also called, is the largest city in Brazil, with a municipality population of 12.1 million, and about 21.3 million in its metropolitan region - the most populous of the Americas and the Southern Hemisphere.

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is the capital of , Brazil. If you're heading for from or , it's worth stopping by for a day or two.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Southeast and Northeast.

Brazil is the cultural and economic hub of the country, and contains three of the four largest cities: , , and .

Whereas elegant Rio de Janeiro and cosmopolitan may be the best-known places in Brazil, the , or Nordeste is one of the liveliest - a land of sunny beaches, colonial towns, vibrating street parties, music and friendly people.

The is the southernmost region of Brazil. Its attractions range from the historic Jesuit ruins of Missões to the excellent beaches of and the unmissable .

Leave the glamorous cities and beaches of Brazil's central and southern coast behind and see the wilder part of the country, where cities didn't really develop until the 19th century. Northern Brazil is the place to see the enormous Amazon rainforest.

is the only landlocked Brazilian region. The region offers excellent opportunities for eco-tourism activities such as exploring caves, rappelling down waterfalls or just trekking through the cerrado.

Brazil

  • Type: Country with 209,000,000 residents
  • Description: country in South America
  • Also known as: “Amérique lusophone”, “Auriverde”, “Ba Tây”, “Blasil”, “br”, “Br”, “BR”, “BRA”, “Brasīl”, “Brasil Axkayotillotl”, “Brasil Axkayotl”, “Brasil Tlalli”, “Brasila lihttodásseváldi”, “Brasíle”, “Brasilia lett-tääʹssväʹldd”, “Brasilia lihttodásseváldi”, “Brasilia littotäsiväldi”, “Brasilian liittotasavalta”, “Brasjon”, “Brazil Szövetségi Köztársaság”, “Brazilie”, “Braziliýa Federatiw Respublikasy”, “Brazílska federatívna republika”, “Brazilská federativní republika”, “Bré.”, “Brés.”, “Bresil”, “Brésilien”, “Brésilienne”, “Breziłe”, “Brezilya Federatif Cumhuriyeti”, “Estados Unidos del Brazil”, “Estados Unidos do Brasil”, “Estados Unidos do Brazil”, “Estat brasiler”, “Federacia Respubliko Brazilo”, “Federale Republiek Brasilië”, “Federale Republiek Brazilië”, “Federatieve Republiek Brazilië”, “Federatiewe Republiek Brasilië”, “Federativ Republik Brasilien”, “Federative Republic o Brazil”, “Federative Republic of Brazil”, “Federative Republyk Brazylje”, “Federativna republika Brazilija”, “Föderative Republik Brasilien”, “Forbundsrepublikken Brasil”, “la République fédérative du Brésil”, “ma Pasila”, “Pederatibang Republika ng Brasil”, “Pederatibong Republika ng Brasil”, “Pindorama”, “Repubblica Federativa del Brasile”, “Repubblika Federattiva tal-Brażil”, “República del Brasil”, “República dos Estados Unidos do Brasil”, “República Federativa de Brasil”, “Republica Federativa del Brasil”, “República Federativa del Brasil”, “Republica Federativa di u Brasile”, “Republik Federatif Brasil”, “Republik Federatif Brazil”, “Republik Kevreel Brazil”, “Republik Stadoù-Unanet Brazil”, “Republikang Pederatiba ng Brasil”, “Republikang Pederatiba ning Brasil”, “Republikang Pederatibo ng Brasil”, “Republikang Pederatibu ning Brasil”, “République des États-Unis du Brésil”, “République fédérative du Brésil”, “Res publica Foederata Brasiliae”, “Respublica Foederata Brasiliae”, “Ri̱pobi̱lik Mundundung Bi̱razi̱t”, “Tetã Joaty Pindoráma”, “United States of Brazil”, “Vrasil”, “y Vrasil”, “Ομοσπονδιακή Δημοκρατία της Βραζιλίας”, “Бразилия Федеративті Республикасы”, “Сојузна Република Бразил”, “Федерална република Бразилия”, “Федеративна Республіка Бразилія”, “Федеративная Республика Бразилия”, “Федерациясь Республикась Бразилия”, “ბრაზილიაშ ფედერაციული რესპუბლიკა”, “البرازيلي”, “البرازیل”, “الجمهورية البرازيلية”, “برازيلي”, “برازيلية”, “جمهورية البرازيل الإتحادية”, “جمهورية البرازيل الاتحادية”, “شرق أمريكا الجنوبية”, “وفاقي جمھوريہ برازيل”, “ߓߙߋߖ߭ߌߟ ߞߙߎߝߊ߫ ߞߊ߲ߓߍ߲”, “ߙߋߔߎ߳ߓߟߌߞߊ߬ ߝߋߘߙߊߕߌߝ߭ߊ߬ ߘߏ ߓߙߊߛߌ߫”, “ፈደራላዊት ሪፓብሊክ ብራዚል”, “বিআর”, “বিআরএ”, “ꠛꠞ”, “สหพันธ์สาธารณรัฐบราซิล”, “伯剌西爾”, and “伯国”
  • Languages: Portuguese, Spanish, English, and French
  • Neighbors: , , , , , , , , , , and
  • Categories: sovereign state, secular state, and locality
  • Location:
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Latitude of center
-11° or 11° south
Longitude of center
-55° or 55° west
Population
209,000,000
Area
8,511,965 km² (3,286,488 miles²)
Elevation
258 metres (846 feet)
Capital
Currency
Real (BRL)
Phone code
.br
Internet domain
55
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Brazil” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Бразилиа”
  • Achinese: “Brasil”
  • Adyghe: “Бразилие”
  • Afar: “Brazil”
  • Afrikaans: “Brasilië”
  • Akan: “Brazil”
  • Albanian: “Brazil”
  • Albanian: “Brazili”
  • Amharic: “ብራዚል”
  • Amis: “Brazil”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Βρασιλία”
  • Angika: “ब्राजील”
  • Arabic: “البرازيل”
  • Aragonese: “Brasil”
  • Armenian: “Բրազիլիա”
  • Arpitan: “Brèsil”
  • Arpitan: “Brèsilo”
  • Assamese: “ব্ৰাজিল”
  • Asturian: “Brasil”
  • Atayal: “Brazil”
  • Awadhi: “ब्राजिल”
  • Awadhi: “ब्राज़ील”
  • Aymara: “Parasil”
  • Aymara: “Wrasil”
  • Azerbaijani: “Braziliya”
  • Balinese: “Brasil”
  • Balinese: “Brazil”
  • Bambara: “Berezili”
  • Bambara: “Brazil”
  • Bashkir: “Бразилия”
  • Basque: “Brasil”
  • Batak Mandailing: “Brasil”
  • Batak Toba: “Brasil”
  • Bavarian: “Brasilien”
  • Belarusian: “Бразілія”
  • Belarusian: “Бразылія”
  • Bengali: “ব্রাজিল”
  • Betawi: “Brasil”
  • Bhojpuri: “ब्राज़ील”
  • Bishnupriya: “ব্রাজিল”
  • Bislama: “Brasil”
  • Bislama: “Brazil”
  • Bosnian: “Brazil”
  • Breton: “Brazil”
  • Bulgarian: “Бразилия”
  • Burmese: “ဘရာဇီး”
  • Burmese: “ဘရာဇီးနိုင်ငံ”
  • Catalan: “Brasil”
  • Cebuano: “Brasil”
  • Central Bikol: “Brasil”
  • Central Kanuri: “Brazil”
  • Central Kurdish: “بەڕازیل”
  • Chamorro: “Brazil”
  • Chavacano: “Brasil”
  • Chechen: “Бразили”
  • Cherokee: “ᏆᏏᎵ”
  • Cheyenne: “Brazil”
  • Chinese: “巴西”
  • Choctaw: “Blasiliya”
  • Church Slavic: “Браꙁїлїꙗ”
  • Chuvash: “Бразили”
  • Cornish: “Brasil”
  • Corsican: “Brasile”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Brazil”
  • Croatian: “Brazil”
  • Czech: “Brazílie”
  • Dagbani: “Brazil”
  • Danish: “Brasilien”
  • Dhivehi: “ބުރެޒިލް”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Brezilya”
  • Dotyali: “ब्राजिल”
  • Dutch: “Brazilië”
  • Dzongkha: “བྲ་ཛིལ”
  • Dzongkha: “བཱརཱ་ཛིལ་”
  • Dzongkha: “བཱརཱ་ཛིལ”
  • Eastern Mari: “Бразилий”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “البرازيل”
  • Emilian: “Brasil”
  • Emilian: “Braṡil”
  • Erzya: “Бразилия Мастор”
  • Esperanto: “Brazilo”
  • Estonian: “Brasiilia”
  • Ewe: “Brazil nutome”
  • Ewe: “Brazil”
  • Extremaduran: “Brasil”
  • Faroese: “Brasil”
  • Faroese: “Brasilia”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Brazil”
  • Fijian: “Barasila”
  • Fijian: “Brazil”
  • Finnish: “Brasilia”
  • Fon: “Brésiltò”
  • French: “Brésil”
  • Friulian: “Brasîl”
  • Fulah: “Barazil”
  • Fulah: “Beresiil”
  • Ga: “Brazil”
  • Gagauz: “Braziliya”
  • Galician: “Brasil”
  • Galician: “O Brasil”
  • Gan Chinese: “巴西”
  • Ganda: “Brasil”
  • Ganda: “Buraziiri”
  • Georgian: “ბრაზილია”
  • German: “Brasilien”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Brazil”
  • Gilaki: “برزيل”
  • Goan Konkani: “Brazil”
  • Goan Konkani: “ब्राझील”
  • Gorontalo: “Brasil”
  • Gothic: “𐌱𐍂𐌰𐌶𐌴𐌹𐌻𐌾𐌰”
  • Gothic: “𐌱𐍂𐌰𐌶𐌹𐌻”
  • Greek: “Βραζιλία”
  • Guarani: “Brasil”
  • Guarani: “Pindoráma”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Brézil”
  • Gujarati: “બ્રાઝિલ”
  • Haitian: “Brezil”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Pâ-sî”
  • Hausa: “Birazil”
  • Hausa: “Brazil”
  • Hawaiian: “Palakila”
  • Hebrew: “ברזיל”
  • Hindi: “ब्राज़िल”
  • Hindi: “ब्राजील”
  • Hindi: “ब्राज़ील”
  • Hindi: “ब्रास़ील”
  • Hungarian: “Brazília”
  • Iban: “Brazil”
  • Icelandic: “Brasilía”
  • Ido: “Brazilia”
  • Igbo: “Brazil”
  • Iloko: “Brasil”
  • Iloko: “Brazil”
  • Inari Sami: “Brasilia”
  • Indonesian: “Brasil”
  • Indonesian: “Brazil”
  • Ingush: “Бразилехье”
  • Ingush: “Бразили”
  • Interlingua: “Brasil”
  • Interlingue: “Brasil”
  • Inuktitut: “ᑉᕋᓰᓪ”
  • Inupiaq: “Brazil”
  • Inupiaq: “Parasilaq”
  • Irish: “an Bhrasaíl”
  • Irish: “An Bhrasaíl”
  • Italian: “Brasile”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Brazil”
  • Japanese: “Burajiru”
  • Japanese: “ブラジル”
  • Japanese: “ブラジル連邦共和国”
  • Javanese: “Brasil”
  • Jèrriais: “Brési”
  • Kabardian: “Бразил”
  • Kabardian: “Бразилэ”
  • Kabiyè: “Biresiili”
  • Kabiyè: “Piresiili”
  • Kabuverdianu: “Brazil”
  • Kabyle: “Brazil”
  • Kadazan Dusun: “Brazil”
  • Kalaallisut: “Brasilien”
  • Kalaallisut: “Brazil”
  • Kalmyk: “Ниицәтә Бразилмудин Орн”
  • Kannada: “ಬ್ರೆಜಿಲ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Braziliya”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Бразилия”
  • Karekare: “Burazìl”
  • Kashmiri: “برازِل”
  • Kashmiri: “برٛازیٖل”
  • Kashubian: “Brazyliô”
  • Kashubian: “Brazylskô”
  • Kazakh: “Бразилия”
  • Khmer: “ប្រេស៊ីល”
  • Kikuyu: “Brazil”
  • Kikuyu: “Brazili”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Burezile”
  • Kirghiz: “Бразилия”
  • Komering: “Brazil”
  • Komi: “Бразилия”
  • Kongo: “Brazil”
  • Kongo: “Brazilia”
  • Korean: “브라질”
  • Kotava: “Brasila”
  • Kurdish: “Brazîl”
  • Kurdish: “Brezîl”
  • Kurdish: “برازیل”
  • Ladin: “Brasil”
  • Ladino: “Brasil”
  • Lao: “ບຣາຊິວ”
  • Lao: “ບຼາຊິວ”
  • Lao: “ປະເທດບຣາຊິນ”
  • Latgalian: “Brazileja”
  • Latin: “Brasilia”
  • Latvian: “Brazīlija”
  • Lezghian: “Бразилия”
  • Ligurian: “Braxî”
  • Limburgan: “Braziel”
  • Limburgan: “Brazilië”
  • Lingala: “Brazil”
  • Lingala: “Brezílɛ”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Brasil”
  • Literary Chinese: “巴西”
  • Lithuanian: “Brazilija”
  • Livvi: “Braziilii”
  • Lojban: “razgu’e”
  • Lombard: “Brasil”
  • Low German: “Brasilien”
  • Low German: “Brazilië”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Brazilska”
  • Luba-Katanga: “Mnulezile”
  • Lule Sami: “Brasijlla”
  • Luxembourgish: “Brasilien”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Brazilia”
  • Macedonian: “Бразил”
  • Magahi: “ब्राजिल”
  • Maithili: “ब्राजिल”
  • Malagasy: “Brazila”
  • Malagasy: “Brezila”
  • Malay: “Brazil”
  • Malay: “برازيل”
  • Malayalam: “ബ്രസീല്‍”
  • Malayalam: “ബ്രസീൽ”
  • Maltese: “Brażil”
  • Maltese: “Il-Brażil”
  • Manipuri: “ꯕ꯭ꯔꯥꯓꯤꯜ”
  • Manx: “y Vrasseel”
  • Manx: “Yn Vrasseel”
  • Maori: “Parahi”
  • Maori: “Parīhi”
  • Marathi: “ब्राझिल”
  • Marathi: “ब्राझील”
  • Mazanderani: “برزیل”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Bă-să̤”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Brazil”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Pa-se”
  • Minangkabau: “Brasil”
  • Mingrelian: “ბრაზილია”
  • Mirandese: “Brasil”
  • Moksha: “Бразилия”
  • Mon: “ဗရာဇြဳ”
  • Mongolian: “Бразил”
  • Mongolian: “Бразили”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “بريزيل”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “لبريزيل”
  • Mossi: “Brazil”
  • N'Ko: “ߓߙߋߖ߭ߌߟ”
  • Nauru: “Bradir”
  • Nauru: “Brazil”
  • Navajo: “Kintaaʼanéhé Dineʼé Bikéyah”
  • Neapolitan: “Brasile”
  • Nepali: “ब्राजिल”
  • Newari: “ब्राजिल”
  • North Ndebele: “Brazili”
  • Northern Frisian: “Brasiilien”
  • Northern Luri: “برزیل”
  • Northern Sami: “Brasil”
  • Northern Sami: “Brasilia”
  • Northern Thai: “ᨷᩁᩣᨪᩥᩃ”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Brasil”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Brasil”
  • Norwegian: “Brasil”
  • Novial: “Brasilia”
  • Obolo: “Burazilu”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Brasil”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܒܪܐܙܝܠ”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܒܪܰܐܙܺܝܠ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Brasil”
  • Oriya: “ବ୍ରାଜିଲ”
  • Oriya: “ବ୍ରାଜିଲ୍”
  • Oromo: “Biraazil”
  • Oromo: “Brazil”
  • Ossetian: “Бразили”
  • Pa'o Karen: “ဗရာသီးခမ်းထီ”
  • Pali: “ब्रासील”
  • Pampanga: “Brasil”
  • Pampanga: “Brazil”
  • Pangasinan: “Brazil”
  • Panjabi: “ਬ੍ਰਾਜ਼ੀਲ”
  • Papiamento: “Brasil”
  • Papiamento: “Brazil”
  • Pedi: “Brazil”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Brasilien”
  • Persian: “برزیل”
  • Pfaelzisch: “Brasilien”
  • Pfaelzisch: “Brasilje”
  • Picard: “Brésil”
  • Piemontese: “Brasil”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Bresel”
  • Polish: “Brazylia”
  • Portuguese: “Brasil”
  • Portuguese: “República Federativa do Brasil”
  • Pushto: “برازيل”
  • Pushto: “برازیل”
  • Quechua: “Brasil”
  • Quechua: “Prasil”
  • Romanian: “Brazilia”
  • Romansh: “Brasila”
  • Romansh: “Brasilia”
  • Rundi: “Brazil”
  • Rundi: “Burezili”
  • Russia Buriat: “Бразил”
  • Russian: “Бразилия”
  • Rusyn: “Бразілія”
  • Sakizaya: “Brazil”
  • Samoan: “Pasila”
  • Samogitian: “Brazilėjė”
  • Sango: “Brésil”
  • Sango: “Brezîli”
  • Sanskrit: “ब्राजील”
  • Sanskrit: “ब्रासील”
  • Santali: “ᱵᱨᱟᱡᱤᱞ”
  • Santali: “ᱵᱽᱨᱟᱡᱤᱞ”
  • Sardinian: “Brasile”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Brasilien”
  • Scots: “Brazil”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Braisil”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Breasail”
  • Serbian: “Brazil”
  • Serbian: “Бразил”
  • Serbian: “Браѕил”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Brazil”
  • Shan: “မိူင်းပရႃႇၸီး”
  • Shona: “Brazil”
  • Sichuan Yi: “ꀠꑭ”
  • Sicilian: “Brasili”
  • Silesian: “Brazylijo”
  • Sindhi: “برازيل”
  • Sinhala: “බ්‍රසීලය”
  • Skolt Sami: “Brasilia”
  • Slovak: “Brazília”
  • Slovenian: “Brazilija”
  • Somali: “Baraasiil”
  • Somali: “Barasiil”
  • Somali: “Braasiil”
  • South Azerbaijani: “برزیل”
  • Southern Sotho: “Brazil”
  • Spanish: “Brasil”
  • Sranan Tongo: “Brasilkondre”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⴱⵕⴰⵣⵉⵍ”
  • Sundanese: “Brasil”
  • Swahili: “Brazil”
  • Swahili: “Brazili”
  • Swati: “IBhurazili”
  • Swedish: “Brasilien”
  • Swiss German: “Brasilie”
  • Swiss German: “Brasilien”
  • Sylheti: “ꠛꠦꠞꠣꠎꠤꠟ”
  • Tachelhit: “Lbrazil”
  • Tagalog: “Brasil”
  • Tagalog: “Brazil”
  • Tahitian: “Brazil”
  • Tahitian: “Parīihi”
  • Tajik: “Бразилия”
  • Talysh: “Brazilijə”
  • Tamil: “பிரேசில்”
  • Tamil: “பிரேஸில்”
  • Taroko: “Brazil”
  • Tatar: “Бразилия”
  • Telugu: “బ్రజిల్”
  • Telugu: “బ్రెజిల్”
  • Tetum: “Brazíl”
  • Thai: “บราซิล”
  • Thai: “ประเทศบราซิล”
  • Tibetan: “པུ་རུ་ཟིལ།”
  • Tibetan: “པུ་རུ་ཟིལ”
  • Tibetan: “བ་རཱ་ཛིལ།”
  • Tigrinya: “ብራዚል”
  • Tok Pisin: “Brasil”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Palāsili”
  • Tswana: “Brazil”
  • Tumbuka: “Brazil”
  • Tunisian Arabic: “البرازيل”
  • Turkish: “Brezilya”
  • Turkmen: “Braziliýa”
  • Tuvinian: “Бразилия”
  • Twi: “Brasil”
  • Twi: “Brazil”
  • Tyap: “Bi̱razi̱t”
  • Udmurt: “Бразилия”
  • Uighur: “برازىلىيە”
  • Uighur: “بىرازىلىيە”
  • Ukrainian: “Бразилія”
  • Ukrainian: “Бразілія”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Brazilska”
  • Urdu: “برازیل”
  • Urdu: “برازیلی”
  • Uzbek: “Braziliya”
  • Uzbek: “Бразилия”
  • Venda: “Brazil”
  • Venetian: “Braxil”
  • Venetian: “Braziłe”
  • Veps: “Brazilii”
  • Vietnamese: “Ba Tây (Bra-xin)”
  • Vietnamese: “Bra-xin”
  • Vietnamese: “Brasil”
  • Vietnamese: “Brazil”
  • Vlaams: “Brazilië”
  • Vlax Romani: “Brazil”
  • Volapük: “Brasilän”
  • Võro: “Brasiilia”
  • Walloon: “Braezi”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Brasil”
  • Wayuu: “Wurasiirü”
  • Welsh: “Brasil”
  • Western Armenian: “Պրազիլ”
  • Western Balochi: “برازیل”
  • Western Frisian: “Brazilië”
  • Western Frisian: “Brazylje”
  • Western Mari: “Бразили”
  • Western Panjabi: “برازیل”
  • Wolof: “Beresil”
  • Wolof: “Breesil”
  • Wu Chinese: “巴西”
  • Xhosa: “Brasil”
  • Yakut: “Бразилия”
  • Yiddish: “בראזיל”
  • Yiddish: “בראַזיל”
  • Yiddish: “בראזיליע”
  • Yoruba: “Bàràsílì”
  • Yoruba: “Brasil”
  • Yoruba: “Orílẹ́ède Bàràsílì”
  • Yue Chinese: “巴西”
  • Zeeuws: “Brezilië”
  • Zhuang: “Bahsih”
  • Zulu: “i-Brazil”
  • Zulu: “IBrazili”
  • “Brasil”
  • “Brazilija”
  • “ma Pasiju”
  • “ma Pasiⅼa”
  • “Бразилија”
  • “ब्राज़ील”

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