South America
Brazil
Federative Republic of Brazil
Core facts
- Capital
- Brasília
- Population
- 213,421,037
- Area
- 8,515,767 km^2
- Country code
- BRA
- Flag emoji
- 🇧🇷
- UN member
- Yes
- Independent
- Yes
- Population density
- 25.1 per km^2
- Calling code
- +55
Culture and society
- Languages
- Portuguese
- Religions
- Christianity (89.0%), Unaffiliated (8.0%), Other religions (3.0%)
- Native names
- Brasil
- Demonyms (EN)
- Brazilian / Brazilian
- Start of week
- sunday
- Driving side
- right
- Timezones
- UTC-05:00, UTC-04:00, UTC-03:00, UTC-02:00
- Alternative spellings
- BR, Brasil, Federative Republic of Brazil, República Federativa do Brasil
Geography and map
- Continents
- South America
- Coordinates
- -10.00, -55.00
- Landlocked
- No
- Borders
- ARG, BOL, COL, GUF, GUY, PRY, PER, SUR, URY, VEN
- Border countries count
- 10
Economy and identity
- Currencies
- Brazilian real (R$)
- Top-level domain
- .br
- FIFA code
- BRA
- Capital coordinates
- -15.79, -47.88
- Postal code format
- #####-###
- Gini index
- 53.4 (2019)
- Coat of arms
