Central West
Federal District
Brasília

Brasilia

Brasilia, the capital of and the seat of government of the , is a planned city in the Central Highlands of Brazil. Inaugurated in 1960, it is a masterpiece of modernist architecture listed as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO and attracts architecture enthusiasts worldwide.
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  • Type: City with 2,820,000 residents
  • Description: federal capital of Brazil
  • Also known as: “Brasília” and “RA I”
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Estádio Nacional Mané Garrincha and Cathedral of Brasília.

Stadium
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 de.
Arena BRB Mané Garrincha, formerly Estádio Nacional de Brasília Mané Garrincha, also known as , Estádio Nacional de Brasília, or simply Mané Garrincha, is a football stadium and multipurpose arena, located in Brasília, in the .

Church
Photo: Mariordo, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The is the Roman Catholic cathedral serving Brasília, , and serves as the seat of the Archdiocese of Brasília. It was designed by Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer and engineered by Brazilian structural engineer Joaquim Cardozo, and was completed and dedicated on May 31, 1970.

Theater building
Photo: Luis Dantas, Public domain.
The Cláudio Santoro National Theater is a multi-theater building in Brasília, . It was designed by Oscar Niemeyer in the Modern architectural style.

Brasilia

Latitude
-15.794° or 15° 47′ 38″ south
Longitude
-47.8828° or 47° 52′ 58″ west
Population
2,820,000
Elevation
1,136 metres (3,727 feet)
IATA airport code
BSB
United Nations Location Code
BR BSB
Open location code
58PJ6448+CV
Open­Street­Map ID
node 34567423
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3469058
Wiki­data ID
Q2844
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Brasilia” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Бразилиа”
  • Adyghe: “Бразилиа”
  • Afrikaans: “Brasília”
  • Albanian: “Brazilia”
  • Amharic: “ብራዚሊያ”
  • Arabic: “برازيليا”
  • Aragonese: “Brasília”
  • Armenian: “Բրազիլիա”
  • Arpitan: “Brasilia”
  • Assamese: “ব্ৰাজিলিয়া”
  • Asturian: “Brasilia”
  • Asturian: “Brasília”
  • Awadhi: “ब्रासीलिया”
  • Aymara: “Brasilia”
  • Azerbaijani: “Brazilia”
  • Azerbaijani: “Braziliya”
  • Balinese: “Brasília”
  • Basque: “Brasilia”
  • Bavarian: “Brasilia”
  • Belarusian: “Бразілія (горад)”
  • Belarusian: “Бразілія”
  • Belarusian: “Бразылія (горад)”
  • Belarusian: “Бразылія (места)”
  • Belarusian: “Бразылія”
  • Bengali: “ব্রাজিলিয়া”
  • Bengali: “ব্রাসিলিয়া”
  • Bishnupriya: “ব্রাসিলিয়া”
  • Bosnian: “Brasília”
  • Bosnian: “Brazilija”
  • Breton: “Brasília”
  • Bulgarian: “Бразилия”
  • Burmese: “ဘရာစေးလေးယားမြို့”
  • Burmese: “ဘရာဇီးလီးယားမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Brasília”
  • Cebuano: “Brasília”
  • Central Bikol: “Brasilia”
  • Central Kurdish: “بەڕازیلیا”
  • Chechen: “Бразилиа”
  • Chinese: “Brasília”
  • Chinese: “巴西利亚”
  • Chinese: “巴西利亞”
  • Chuvash: “Бразилиа”
  • Cornish: “Brasília”
  • Corsican: “Brasilia”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Brazilia”
  • Croatian: “Brasilia”
  • Croatian: “Brasília”
  • Czech: “Brasília”
  • Danish: “Brasília”
  • Dhivehi: “ބްރަސީލިއާ”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Brasília”
  • Dutch: “Brasilia”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “برازيليا”
  • Erzya: “Бразилиа ош”
  • Esperanto: “Braziljo”
  • Estonian: “Brasília”
  • Extremaduran: “Brasilia”
  • Faroese: “Brasilia”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Brasília”
  • Fijian: “Brasília”
  • Finnish: “Brasilia”
  • Finnish: “Brasília”
  • French: “Brasilia”
  • French: “Brasília”
  • Galician: “Brasilia”
  • Georgian: “ბრაზილია”
  • German: “Brasilia”
  • German: “Brasília”
  • Gothic: “𐌱𐍂𐌰𐌶𐌹𐌻𐌹𐌰”
  • Greek: “Μπραζίλια”
  • Guarani: “Brasilia”
  • Guarani: “Vrasília”
  • Gujarati: “બ્રાજ઼િલિયા”
  • Haitian: “Brazilia”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Brasília”
  • Hausa: “Brasilia”
  • Hawaiian: “Palakilia”
  • Hebrew: “בראזיליא”
  • Hebrew: “ברזיליה”
  • Hindi: “ब्रासीलिया”
  • Hungarian: “Brasília”
  • Hungarian: “Brazíliaváros”
  • Icelandic: “Brasilía”
  • Ido: “Brasilia”
  • Igbo: “Brasilia”
  • Indonesian: “Brasilia”
  • Indonesian: “Brasília”
  • Interlingua: “Brasilia”
  • Interlingue: “Brasilia”
  • Irish: “Brasília”
  • Italian: “Brasilia”
  • Italian: “Brasília”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Brazilia”
  • Japanese: “ブラジリア”
  • Javanese: “Brasilia”
  • Kabyle: “Brasilia”
  • Kalaallisut: “Brasilia”
  • Kannada: “ಬ್ರಾಸಿಲ್ಯಾ”
  • Kannada: “ಬ್ರೆಸಿಲಿಯಾ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Brasília”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Brazilia”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Бразилиа”
  • Kazakh: “Бразилиа”
  • Kazakh: “Бразилия, Бразилия”
  • Khmer: “ប្រាស៊ីលីយ៉ា”
  • Kirghiz: “Бразилиа”
  • Kirghiz: “Бразилия шаары”
  • Komering: “Brasília”
  • Kongo: “Brasilia”
  • Korean: “브라질리아”
  • Kotava: “Brasilia”
  • Kurdish: “Brasília”
  • Ladino: “Brasilia”
  • Lao: “ບຣາຊີເລຍ”
  • Latin: “Brasiliapolis”
  • Latin: “Brasiliopolis”
  • Latvian: “Brazilja”
  • Lezghian: “Бразилиа”
  • Ligurian: “Braxilia”
  • Ligurian: “Braxìlia”
  • Limburgan: “Brasília”
  • Lingala: “Brazilia”
  • Lithuanian: “Brazilija”
  • Livvi: “Brazilia”
  • Lombard: “Brasilia”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Brasília”
  • Luxembourgish: “Brasília”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Brasília”
  • Macedonian: “Бразилија”
  • Maithili: “ब्रसिलिया”
  • Malagasy: “Brasília”
  • Malay: “Brasilia”
  • Malay: “Brasília”
  • Malayalam: “ബ്രസീലിയ”
  • Maltese: “Brasilia”
  • Maltese: “Brasília”
  • Maltese: “Brażilja”
  • Manx: “Brasília”
  • Maori: “Brasília”
  • Marathi: “ब्राझिलिया”
  • Mazanderani: “برازیلیا”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Brasília”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Brasília”
  • Minangkabau: “Brasília”
  • Mingrelian: “ბრაზილია (ნოღა)”
  • Mingrelian: “ბრაზილია”
  • Mirandese: “Brasília”
  • Moksha: “Бразилиа”
  • Mongolian: “Бразилиа”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “برازيليا”
  • Narom: “Brésilia”
  • Nauru: “Brasília”
  • Neapolitan: “Brasília”
  • Nepali: “ब्रसिलिया”
  • Northern Frisian: “Brasília”
  • Northern Luri: “بئرازیلیا”
  • Northern Luri: “برازیلیا”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Brasília”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Brasília”
  • Norwegian: “Brasília”
  • Nyanja: “Brasília”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Brasília”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Brasilia”
  • Oriya: “ବ୍ରାସିଲିଆ”
  • Ossetian: “Бразилиа”
  • Pampanga: “Brasília”
  • Panjabi: “ਬ੍ਰਾਜ਼ੀਲੀਆ”
  • Papiamento: “Brasília”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Brasilia”
  • Persian: “برازیلیا”
  • Piemontese: “Brasilia”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Breselya”
  • Polish: “Brasília”
  • Portuguese: “Brasília”
  • Pushto: “برازیلیا”
  • Quechua: “Brasilia”
  • Romanian: “Brasilia”
  • Romanian: “Brasília”
  • Romanian: “Brazilia”
  • Romansh: “Brasilia”
  • Romansh: “Brasília”
  • Rundi: “Brasília”
  • Russian: “Бразилиа”
  • Russian: “Бразилия”
  • Sakizaya: “Pa-si-li-ya”
  • Samogitian: “Brazilėjė (miests)”
  • Samogitian: “Brazilėjė”
  • Santali: “ᱵᱽᱨᱟᱥᱤᱞᱤᱭᱟ”
  • Sardinian: “Brasìlia”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Brasília”
  • Scots: “Brasilia”
  • Scots: “Brasília”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Brasília”
  • Serbian: “Бразилија”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Brasília”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Brazilija”
  • Shona: “Brasília”
  • Sicilian: “Brasilia”
  • Silesian: “Brasília”
  • Sindhi: “برازيليا”
  • Sinhala: “බ්‍රසිලියා, බ්‍රසීලය”
  • Sinhala: “බ්‍රසිලියා”
  • Slovak: “Brazília”
  • Slovenian: “Brasilia”
  • Somali: “Barasiliya”
  • Somali: “Barasillia”
  • South Azerbaijani: “برازیلیا”
  • Spanish: “Brasilia”
  • Sranan Tongo: “Brasília”
  • Swahili: “Brasilia”
  • Swedish: “Brasilia”
  • Swedish: “Brasília”
  • Swiss German: “Brasília”
  • Tagalog: “Brasilia”
  • Tahitian: “Brasilia”
  • Tajik: “Бразилиа”
  • Tajik: “Бразилия”
  • Tajik: “Ҳавзаи федералии Бразилиа”
  • Talysh: “Brazilijə”
  • Talysh: “Braziliya (şəhər)”
  • Tamil: “பிரசிலியா”
  • Tamil: “ப்ரஸிலியா”
  • Tatar: “Бразилиа”
  • Telugu: “బ్రసీలియా”
  • Tetum: “Brazília”
  • Thai: “บราซิเลีย”
  • Thai: “บราซีเลีย”
  • Tibetan: “པུ་རུ་ཟི་ལི་ཡ།”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Palāsilia”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Brasília”
  • Tumbuka: “Brasília”
  • Turkish: “Brasilia”
  • Turkish: “Brasília”
  • Turkish: “Brazilya”
  • Turkmen: “Braziliýa”
  • Twi: “Brasília”
  • Udmurt: “Бразилиа”
  • Ukrainian: “Бразиліа”
  • Ukrainian: “Бразилія”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Brasilia”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Brasília”
  • Urdu: “برازیلیا”
  • Urdu: “براسیلیا”
  • Uzbek: “Brazilia”
  • Venetian: “Braxiłia”
  • Venetian: “Braziłia”
  • Venetian: “Brazìlia”
  • Veps: “Brazilia”
  • Vietnamese: “Brasilia”
  • Vietnamese: “Brasília”
  • Vlax Romani: “Brasília”
  • Volapük: “Brasília”
  • Võro: “Brasília”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Brasília”
  • Welsh: “Brasília”
  • Western Frisian: “Brasilia”
  • Western Frisian: “Brasília”
  • Western Panjabi: “برازیلیا”
  • Western Panjabi: “برازیلیہ”
  • Wu Chinese: “巴西利亚”
  • Wu Chinese: “巴西利亞”
  • Xhosa: “Brasilia”
  • Yiddish: “בראזיליא”
  • Yoruba: “Bràsílíà”
  • Yue Chinese: “巴西利亞”
  • Zhuang: “Bahsihleihya”
  • Zhuang: “Brasília”
  • Zulu: “i-Brasília”
  • “Brasilia”
  • “Brasília”
  • “Brazilėjė”
  • “ma tomo Pasilija”

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