Official name
Federative Republic of Brazil
Name in local language
República Federativa do Brasil (pt)
Continent
Americas
Subcontinent
South America
Population (ranking: 7e )
207,750,291 inhabitants (2023)
Population growth
0.73 % / year
Area
8,510,346 km²
Density
24.41 inhabitants / km²
GDP (ranking: 10e )1,839.758 billions $USD (2019)
GDP/capita (ranking )
8,717 $USD (2019)
GDP growth
1.10 % / year (2019)
Life expectancy (ranking )
76.97 years (2021)
Birth rate
13.79 ‰ (2021)
Fertility rate
1.76 children / woman (2021)
Death rate (ranking )
6.61 ‰ (2021)
Infant mortality rate (ranking )
11.20 ‰ (2021)
Literacy rate
93.40 % (2019)
Official languages
Portuguese
Currency
Real (R$ BRL)
HDI (ranking: 119e )0.754 / 1 (2021)
EPI (ranking )60.70 (2018)
Government
Federal presidential constitutional republic
Head of State
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
National Day
7 September (independence of 1822)
ISO Codes BR, BRA
Demonym
Brazilian
Tourists (ranking )
6,621,000 people (2018)
Brazil is a federal state of South America. It is the largest country in the subcontinent, with almost half of its total area, and the fifth largest country in the world. It’s also one of the most populated countries of the world.Guyana , Suriname , French Guiana , Venezuela and Colombia to the north, Peru , Bolivia and Paraguay to the west, Argentina and Uruguay to the south. It doesn’t have borders with Chile and Ecuador .largest urban areas in the world with more than 36 million inhabitants.
Rio de Janeiro. Photo: Jens Hausherr Amazon River, Brazil Urban areas (2018)
Urban areas
Population
São Paulo
36,315,721 inhabitants
Rio de Janeiro
12,699,743 inhabitants
Belo Horizonte
5,916,189 inhabitants
Brasília
4,560,505 inhabitants
Porto Alegre
4,317,508 inhabitants
Fortaleza
4,074,730 inhabitants
Recife
4,054,866 inhabitants
Salvador
3,899,533 inhabitants
Curitiba
3,615,027 inhabitants
Manaus
2,631,239 inhabitants
Goiânia
2,518,775 inhabitants
Belém
2,491,052 inhabitants
Vitória
1,951,673 inhabitants
São Luis
1,621,102 inhabitants
Natal
1,587,055 inhabitants
Joinville
1,400,128 inhabitants
Maceió
1,330,291 inhabitants
João Pessoa
1,266,463 inhabitants
Teresina
1,222,940 inhabitants
Florianópolis
1,189,947 inhabitants
Londrina
1,101,595 inhabitants
Campo Grande
1,069,420 inhabitants
Aracaju
1,052,464 inhabitants
Cuiabá
864,131 inhabitants
Administrative divisions
States
Population
Area
Acre
829,780 inhabitants
164,173 km²
Alagoas
3,125,254 inhabitants
27,831 km²
Amapá
774,268 inhabitants
142,471 km²
Amazonas
3,952,262 inhabitants
1,559,168 km²
Bahia
14,659,023 inhabitants
564,760 km²
Ceará
8,936,431 inhabitants
148,894 km²
Espírito Santo
3,975,100 inhabitants
46,074 km²
Federal District
2,923,369 inhabitants
5,761 km²
Goiás
6,950,976 inhabitants
340,243 km²
Maranhão
6,800,605 inhabitants
329,651 km²
Mato Grosso
3,784,239 inhabitants
903,207 km²
Mato Grosso do Sul
2,833,742 inhabitants
357,148 km²
Minas Gerais
20,732,660 inhabitants
586,514 km²
Pará
8,442,962 inhabitants
1,245,871 km²
Paraíba
4,030,961 inhabitants
56,467 km²
Paraná
11,835,379 inhabitants
199,299 km²
Pernambuco
9,051,113 inhabitants
98,068 km²
Piauí
3,270,174 inhabitants
251,755 km²
Rio de Janeiro
16,615,526 inhabitants
43,750 km²
Rio Grande do Norte
3,303,953 inhabitants
52,810 km²
Rio Grande do Sul
11,088,065 inhabitants
281,707 km²
Rondônia
1,616,379 inhabitants
237,765 km²
Roraima
634,805 inhabitants
223,645 km²
Santa Catarina
7,762,154 inhabitants
95,731 km²
São Paulo
46,024,937 inhabitants
248,219 km²
See also
