Country profile / BR
Brazil
Federative Republic of Brazil
Locally: Brasil
Capital
Brasília
Region
South America
ISO
BR
Local time in Brazil
live · IANANoronha
America/Noronha
Belem
America/Belem
Fortaleza
America/Fortaleza
Recife
America/Recife
Showing 4 of 16 time zones. The full identifier list appears in the reference ledger below.
Reference ledger
A sense of scale
area percentileLarger than 98% of places in this atlas.
At 8,515,767 km², Brazil ranks 6 of 241 records by land area. This comparison uses the same bundled source for every profile, so the scale is internally consistent.
Land neighbors
10Field notes
2 notes“Brazil's Amazon rainforest produces about 20% of Earth's oxygen.”
02Rio de Janeiro was once the capital of Portugal.
Use these identifiers accurately
The two-letter code BR is the compact ISO identifier used in addresses, locale selectors, and many data feeds. The dialing prefix +55 belongs at the start of an international phone number. Time zone names such as America/Noronha should be preferred over a fixed UTC offset because they carry daylight-saving rules.
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