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

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
Open­Street­Map ID
node 424313734
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­country
Geo­Names ID
3469034
Wiki­data ID
Q155
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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
  • Afrikaans: Federale Republiek Brasilië
  • Afrikaans: Federatiewe Republiek Brasilië
  • Akan: Brazil
  • Albanian: Brazil
  • Albanian: Brazili
  • Amharic: ብራዚል
  • Amis: Brazil
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): Βρασιλία
  • Angika: ब्राजील
  • Arabic: البرازيل
  • Arabic: البرازيلي
  • Arabic: البرازیل
  • Arabic: الجمهورية البرازيلية
  • Arabic: برازيل
  • Arabic: برازيلي
  • Arabic: برازيلية
  • Arabic: برازیل
  • Arabic: جمهورية البرازيل الإتحادية
  • Arabic: جمهورية البرازيل الاتحادية
  • Arabic: شرق أمريكا الجنوبية
  • Aragonese: Brasil
  • Armenian: Բրազիլիա
  • Arpitan: Brèsil
  • Arpitan: Brèsilo
  • Assamese: ব্ৰাজিল
  • Asturian: Brasil
  • Atayal: Brazil
  • Awadhi: ब्राजिल
  • 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: বিআর
  • Bengali: বিআরএ
  • Bengali: ব্রাজিল
  • Betawi: Brasil
  • Bhojpuri: ब्राज़ील
  • Bishnupriya: ব্রাজিল
  • Bislama: Brasil
  • Bislama: Brazil
  • Bosnian: Brazil
  • Breton: Brasil
  • Breton: Brazil
  • Breton: Federative Republic of Brazil
  • Breton: República Federativa do Brasil
  • Breton: Republik Kevreel Brazil
  • Breton: Republik Stadoù-Unanet Brazil
  • Bulgarian: Бразилия
  • Bulgarian: Федерална република Бразилия
  • Burmese: ဘရာဇီး
  • Burmese: ဘရာဇီးနိုင်ငံ
  • Catalan: Brasil
  • Catalan: República del Brasil
  • Catalan: República Federativa de Brasil
  • Cebuano: Brasil
  • Central Bikol: Brasil
  • Central Kanuri: Brazil
  • Central Kurdish: بەڕازیل
  • Chamorro: Brazil
  • Chavacano: Brasil
  • Chechen: Бразили
  • Cherokee: ᏆᏏᎵ
  • Cheyenne: Brazil
  • Chinese: Pa-se
  • Chinese: 巴西
  • Church Slavic: Браꙁїлїꙗ
  • Chuvash: Бразили
  • Cornish: Brasil
  • Corsican: Brasile
  • Corsican: Republica Federativa di u Brasile
  • Crimean Tatar: Brazil
  • Croatian: Brazil
  • Czech: Brazílie
  • Czech: Brazilská federativní republika
  • Dagbani: Brazil
  • Danish: Brasilien
  • Dhivehi: ބުރެޒިލް
  • Dimli (individual language): Brezilya
  • Dotyali: ब्राजिल
  • Dutch: Brazilië
  • Dutch: Federale Republiek Brazilië
  • Dutch: Federatieve Republiek Brazilië
  • Dzongkha: བྲ་ཛིལ
  • Dzongkha: བཱརཱ་ཛིལ་
  • Dzongkha: བཱརཱ་ཛིལ
  • Eastern Mari: Бразилий
  • Egyptian Arabic: البرازيل
  • Egyptian Arabic: برازيل
  • Erzya: Бразилия Мастор
  • Esperanto: Br
  • Esperanto: Brazilo
  • Esperanto: Federacia Respubliko Brazilo
  • Estonian: Brasiilia
  • Ewe: Brazil nutome
  • Ewe: Brazil
  • Extremaduran: Brasil
  • Faroese: Brasil
  • Faroese: Brasilia
  • Fiji Hindi: Brazil
  • Fijian: Barasila
  • Fijian: Brazil
  • Finnish: Brasilia
  • Finnish: Brasilian liittotasavalta
  • Fon: Brésiltò
  • French: Amérique lusophone
  • French: Auriverde
  • French: Brasil
  • French: Brazil
  • French: Bré.
  • French: Brés.
  • French: Bresil
  • French: Brésil
  • French: Brésilien
  • French: Brésilienne
  • French: Brézil
  • French: la République fédérative du Brésil
  • French: République des États-Unis du Brésil
  • French: République fédérative du Brésil
  • Friulian: Brasîl
  • Fulah: Barazil
  • Fulah: Beresiil
  • Ga: Brazil
  • Gagauz: Braziliya
  • Galician: Brasil
  • Galician: O Brasil
  • Galician: República Federativa do Brasil
  • Gan Chinese: 巴西
  • Ganda: Brasil
  • Ganda: Buraziiri
  • Georgian: ბრაზილია
  • German: Brasilien
  • German: Föderative Republik Brasilien
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: Brasil
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: Brazil
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: Federative Republic of Brazil
  • Gilaki: برزيل
  • Goan Konkani: Brazil
  • Goan Konkani: ब्राझील
  • Gorontalo: Brasil
  • Gothic: 𐌱𐍂𐌰𐌶𐌹𐌻
  • Greek: Βραζιλία
  • Greek: Ομοσπονδιακή Δημοκρατία της Βραζιλίας
  • Guarani: Brasil
  • Guarani: Pindorama
  • Guarani: Pindoráma
  • Guarani: Tetã Joaty Pindoráma
  • Guarani: Vrasil
  • 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: Brazil Szövetségi Köztársaság
  • Hungarian: Brazília
  • Iban: Brazil
  • Icelandic: Brasilía
  • Ido: Brazilia
  • Igbo: Brazil
  • Iloko: Brasil
  • Iloko: Brazil
  • Inari Sami: Brasilia littotäsiväldi
  • Inari Sami: Brasilia
  • Indonesian: Brasil
  • Indonesian: Brazil
  • Indonesian: Republik Federatif Brasil
  • Indonesian: Republik Federatif Brazil
  • Ingush: Бразилехье
  • Ingush: Бразили
  • Interlingua: Brasil
  • Interlingue: Brasil
  • Inuktitut: ᑉᕋᓰᓪ
  • Inupiaq: Brazil
  • Inupiaq: Parasilaq
  • Irish: an Bhrasaíl
  • Irish: An Bhrasaíl
  • Italian: Brasile
  • Italian: Repubblica Federativa del Brasile
  • Jamaican Creole English: Brazil
  • Japanese: ブラジル
  • Japanese: ブラジル連邦共和国
  • Japanese: 伯剌西爾
  • Japanese: 伯国
  • Javanese: Brasil
  • 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
  • Kashmiri: برازِل
  • Kashmiri: برٛازیٖل
  • Kashubian: Brazylskô
  • Kazakh: Brasil
  • Kazakh: Бразилия Федеративті Республикасы
  • 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
  • Latin: Res publica Foederata Brasiliae
  • Latin: Respublica Foederata Brasiliae
  • 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
  • Luxembourgish: Federativ Republik Brasilien
  • Macedo-Romanian: Brazilia
  • Macedonian: Бразил
  • Maithili: ब्राजिल
  • Malagasy: Brazila
  • Malagasy: Brezila
  • Malay: Brazil
  • Malay: برازيل
  • Malayalam: ബ്രസീല്‍
  • Malayalam: ബ്രസീൽ
  • Maltese: Brasil
  • Maltese: Brazil
  • Maltese: Brażil
  • Maltese: Il-Brażil
  • Maltese: Repubblika Federattiva tal-Brażil
  • Manipuri: ꯕ꯭ꯔꯥꯓꯤꯜ
  • Manx: y Vrasil
  • 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
  • Mingrelian: ბრაზილიაშ ფედერაციული რესპუბლიკა
  • Mirandese: Brasil
  • Moksha: Бразилия
  • Moksha: Федерациясь Республикась Бразилия
  • Mongolian: Бразил
  • Mongolian: Бразили
  • Moroccan Arabic: بريزيل
  • Moroccan Arabic: لبريزيل
  • Mossi: Brazil
  • N'Ko: ߓߙߋߖ߭ߌߟ ߞߙߎߝߊ߫ ߞߊ߲ߓߍ߲
  • N'Ko: ߓߙߋߖ߭ߌߟ
  • N'Ko: ߙߋߔߎ߳ߓߟߌߞߊ߬ ߝߋߘߙߊߕߌߝ߭ߊ߬ ߘߏ ߓߙߊߛߌ߫
  • Narom: Brési
  • 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: Brasila lihttodásseváldi
  • Northern Sami: Brasilia lihttodásseváldi
  • Northern Sami: Brasilia
  • Northern Thai: ᨷᩁᩣᨪᩥᩃ
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Brasil
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Forbundsrepublikken Brasil
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Brasil
  • Norwegian: Brasil
  • Novial: Brasilia
  • Obolo: Burazilu
  • Occitan (post 1500): Brasil
  • Occitan (post 1500): Republica Federativa del Brasil
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): ܒܪܐܙܝܠ
  • 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
  • Pampanga: Republikang Pederatiba ning Brasil
  • Pampanga: Republikang Pederatibu ning Brasil
  • Pangasinan: Brazil
  • Panjabi: ਬ੍ਰਾਜ਼ੀਲ
  • Papiamento: Brasil
  • Papiamento: Brazil
  • Pedi: Brazil
  • Pennsylvania German: Brasilien
  • Persian: برازیل
  • Persian: برزیل
  • Pfaelzisch: Brasilien
  • Pfaelzisch: Brasilje
  • Picard: Brésil
  • Piemontese: Brasil
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: Bresel
  • Polish: Brazylia
  • Portuguese: Brasil
  • Portuguese: Pindorama
  • Portuguese: República Federativa do Brasil
  • Pushto: برازيل
  • Pushto: برازیل
  • Quechua: Brasil
  • Quechua: Parasil
  • Romanian: Brazilia
  • Romansh: Brasila
  • Romansh: Brasilia
  • Rundi: Brazil
  • Rundi: Burezili
  • Russia Buriat: Бразил
  • Russian: Brasil
  • Russian: Estados Unidos del Brazil
  • Russian: Бразилия
  • Russian: Федеративная Республика 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
  • Scots: Federative Republic o 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
  • Sindhi: وفاقي جمھوريہ برازيل
  • Sinhala: බ්‍රසීලය
  • Skolt Sami: Brasilia lett-tääʹssväʹldd
  • Skolt Sami: Brasilia
  • Slovak: Brazília
  • Slovak: Brazílska federatívna republika
  • Slovenian: Brazilija
  • Slovenian: Federativna republika Brazilija
  • Somali: Baraasiil
  • Somali: Barasiil
  • Somali: Braasiil
  • South Azerbaijani: برزیل
  • Southern Sotho: Brazil
  • Spanish: Brasil
  • Spanish: República Federativa de Brasil
  • Spanish: República Federativa del Brasil
  • Sranan Tongo: Brasilkondre
  • Sranan Tongo: Brasjon
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: ⴱⵕⴰⵣⵉⵍ
  • Sundanese: Brasil
  • Swahili: Brazil
  • Swahili: Brazili
  • Swati: IBhurazili
  • Swedish: Brasil
  • Swedish: Brasilien
  • Swiss German: Brasilie
  • Sylheti: ꠛꠞ
  • Sylheti: ꠛꠦꠞꠣꠎꠤꠟ
  • Tachelhit: Lbrazil
  • Tagalog: Brasil
  • Tagalog: Brazil
  • Tagalog: Pederatibang Republika ng Brasil
  • Tagalog: Pederatibong Republika ng Brasil
  • Tagalog: Republikang Pederatiba ng Brasil
  • Tagalog: Republikang Pederatibo ng Brasil
  • Tahitian: Brazil
  • Tahitian: Parīihi
  • Tajik: Бразилия
  • Talysh: Brazilijə
  • Talysh: Brazilya
  • Tamil: பிரேசில்
  • Tamil: பிரேஸில்
  • Taroko: Brazil
  • Tatar: Бразилия
  • Telugu: బ్రజిల్
  • Telugu: బ్రెజిల్
  • Tetum: Brazíl
  • Thai: บราซิล
  • Thai: ประเทศบราซิล
  • Thai: สหพันธ์สาธารณรัฐบราซิล
  • Tibetan: པུ་རུ་ཟིལ།
  • Tibetan: པུ་རུ་ཟིལ
  • Tibetan: བ་རཱ་ཛིལ།
  • Tigrinya: ብራዚል
  • Tigrinya: ፈደራላዊት ሪፓብሊክ ብራዚል
  • Tok Pisin: Brasil
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): Palāsili
  • Tosk Albanian: Brasilien
  • Tswana: Brazil
  • Tumbuka: Brazil
  • Tunisian Arabic: البرازيل
  • Turkish: Brezilya
  • Turkmen: Braziliýa Federatiw Respublikasy
  • Turkmen: Braziliýa
  • Tuvinian: Бразилия
  • Twi: Brasil
  • Twi: Brazil
  • Tyap: Bi̱razi̱t
  • Tyap: Brazil
  • Tyap: Ri̱pobi̱lik Mundundung Bi̱razi̱t
  • Udmurt: Бразилия
  • Uighur: برازىلىيە
  • Uighur: بىرازىلىيە
  • Ukrainian: Бразилія
  • Ukrainian: Бразілія
  • Ukrainian: Федеративна Республіка Бразилія
  • Upper Sorbian: Brazilska
  • Urdu: برازیل
  • Urdu: برازیلی
  • Uzbek: Braziliya
  • Uzbek: Бразилия
  • Venda: Brazil
  • Venetian: Braxil
  • Venetian: Braziłe
  • Venetian: Breziłe
  • 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 Frisian: Federative Republyk 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
  • br
  • BR
  • BRA
  • Brasiilia
  • Brasil
  • Braṡil
  • Brasil Axkayotillotl
  • Brasil Axkayotl
  • Brasil Tlalli
  • Brasile
  • Brazilėjė
  • ma Pasiju
  • ma Pasila
  • ब्राज़ील

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