Map of Brazil

Brazil is located in South America. Its territory lies in the southern and western hemispheres, centred near 10.0° S, 55.0° W. It shares land borders with 9 countries — Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay and Venezuela — and also has its own coastline. Within South America, a continent of 12 countries bordered by the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean, Brazil is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Brazil shares land frontiers with the following 9 countries. Select any neighbour to open its own map.

Brazil covers about 8,515,767 km² (3,287,956 sq mi). That makes it the 5th-largest country in the world by area and the largest country in South America by area.

It is home to a population of roughly 213,421,037, the 7th-largest in the world and the 1st-largest in South America, accounting for about 49% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Brazil has an average population density of about 25 people per km². Among the 12 countries of South America it stands 1st by population and 1st by area.

The seat of government is Brasília, and the official currency is the Brazilian real (BRL, R$), and the main official language is Portuguese. Traffic drives on the right, and the country observes time zones UTC-05:00, UTC-04:00, UTC-03:00 and UTC-02:00.

Brazil carries the ISO country codes BR and BRA, dials on the international calling code +55 and uses the .br internet domain.

Brazil shares its land borders with 9 countries, each of which is mapped in full on this site. Listed from the most to the least populous, here is how they compare.

Its neighbours are Colombia (capital Bogotá, about 53,057,212 people), Argentina (capital Buenos Aires, about 46,735,004 people), Peru (capital Lima, about 34,350,244 people), Venezuela (capital Caracas, about 28,517,000 people), Bolivia (capital Sucre, about 11,365,333 people), Paraguay (capital Asunción, about 6,109,644 people), Uruguay (capital Montevideo, about 3,499,451 people), Guyana (capital Georgetown, about 772,975 people) and Suriname (capital Paramaribo, about 616,500 people).

By area, Brazil is larger than 9 of these neighbours and smaller than 0 of them, which places its size in context along its own frontiers. Open any neighbour above to see its capital, borders and full set of facts on its own map.

The interactive map above is centred on 10.0° S, 55.0° W and opens at zoom level 3, framing Brazil within South America. A marker pin sits at the country’s approximate geographic centre; drag the map or use scroll and pinch to move from a regional overview down to the streets of Brasília. The map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data, the same open dataset used across this site, so place names, roads and coastlines stay consistent from one country to the next.

Brazil lies about 1,110 km from the equator, in the southern and western hemispheres of the globe. Zoom out to see how its coastline and land borders meet the wider region.

Brazil spans 4 time zones, from UTC-05:00 to UTC-02:00, reflecting the spread of its territory across the globe. Each is expressed as an offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC); where a country covers several zones, the official local time can differ from one part of it to another.

The official currency is the Brazilian real (BRL, R$).

The official language is Portuguese, which is what appears on signs, documents and many of the place labels you will see on the map.

For practical reference, vehicles drive on the right-hand side of the road, the international dialling code is +55 and websites commonly use the .br internet domain.

In short, Brazil is a coastal country in South America, sharing land borders with 9 countries. Its capital is Brasília. Brazil has a population of about 213,421,037 and covers around 8,515,767 km² (3,287,956 sq mi), ranking it 7th in the world by population and 5th by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Brazil.

The flag of Brazil has a green field with a large yellow rhombus in the center. Within the rhombus is a dark blue globe with twenty-seven small five-pointed white stars depicting a starry sky and a thin white convex horizontal band inscribed with the national motto 'Ordem e Progresso' across its center.

The flag of Brazil is shown above as an emoji, rendered by your device’s own font; see it alongside every other nation on the flags of the world page.