Brazil
This page was generated on 13 September 2026 at 14:14 UTC. The bundled facts on it were retrieved between 13 July 2026 and 8 August 2026. Aletheia's source record for emergency numbers records no retrieval date, so it is not covered by that range.
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Country outlines on Aletheia come from Natural Earth's 1:10-million public-domain boundary set, made by volunteer cartographers and supported by NACIS. Where a border is disputed, the line drawn is one cartographic convention among the competing claims — not a settled fact, and not Aletheia taking a side. Disputes we can source are listed rather than hidden inside the outline.
Brazil is filled. The 13 other countries reaching this view are drawn in a dimmer tone — dimmed, not hidden. Unpainted ground is where no boundary in this dataset falls: open water, or land none of them claims.
The 5 hatched areas are contested, and Aletheia takes no position on any of them. The hatching marks where the dispute lies — including where it falls inside the outline — and it is the same set the list below names. 2 of them are smaller than this map can draw and are marked with a fixed-size diamond: the diamond is their position, not their size or shape.
40 parts of Brazil in this source are smaller than a pixel at this scale and are not drawn. Nothing larger than that is missing, and they have not been enlarged to make them visible.
Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain), 1:10m. Disputed areas: Natural Earth (public domain). Equirectangular projection, standard parallel 14.2°S — distances and areas away from that parallel are stretched. View: 78.1°W–24.8°W, 37.3°S–8.8°N.
Disputed areas involving Brazil
5 areas whose status is contested. Aletheia takes no position on any of them. Each is described in the source’s own words.
Brazilian Island · Indeterminate
Claimed by Brazil and Uruguay
Corner of Artigas · Disputed
Admin. by Brazil; Claimed by Uruguay
Also involves Uruguay
Courantyne Headwaters · Disputed
Admin. by Guyana; Claimed by Suriname
Lawa Headwaters · Disputed
Admin. by France; Claimed by Suriname
West of Essequibo River · Disputed
Admin. by Guyana; Claimed by Venezuela
Source: Natural Earth’s disputed-areas layer (public domain). The list is not exhaustive, and inclusion or omission is not a judgment about any claim’s merit. What has happened in these places is not described here — that needs a source Aletheia has not yet been able to read.
News sources
3 sources from Brazilin Aletheia’s registry. Coverage here is covered.
- Folha de S.Paulo
- G1 / Globo
- The Rio Times
sources not yet assessed
Official alerts
An official alerting source is connected for Brazil: INMET Alert-AS (BR).
This says a source is connected — not whether any warning is in force right now. Open Alerts for that.
National legislature
Wikidata P856 · link checked and reachable
Local time
16 time zones.
How many distinct clocks that is depends on the date. The current time needs JavaScript, so it is not shown here rather than shown wrong.
Conditions at the capital
Right now in Brasília
29°C / 84°FOvercastwind 11 km/h / 7 mph
Checked 14 minutes ago
Conditions at the capital, not across the country.
Weather from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)
Brasília, 2026-09-13Sunrise 6:08 AM · sunset 6:06 PM11h 58m of daylightWaxing crescent, 4% lit
At a glance
- ISO code
- BRAuncited
- Driving side
- rightuncited
- Mains voltage
- 127 V / 220 Vcited
- Capital
- Brasíliauncited
- Official languages
- Brazilian Sign Language, Portuguesecited
- Plug types
- Type C (Europlug), Type N (IEC 60906-1)cited · letters are the IEC classification
- Official website
- gov.br ↗From the source's "official website" statement, kept here because the site is a government portal. We have not tested whether it loads.uncited
Population and economy
Population
Population of Brazil: the UN's 2025 estimate is 212,812,405 people. The page shows that figure carried forward at about 1.5 more a minute. It is a projection, not a count, and the figure shown changes as time passes.
Not a count. This is the UN's 2025 estimate carried forward at the rate implied by the two most recent published years — arithmetic, not a measurement. Nobody counts a country continuously, and the true figure right now is unknown.
Where this number comes from
- Base figure
- 212,812,405 people
- For the year
- 2025 — a mid-year estimate, so it describes 1 July 2025
- Compared with
- 211,998,573 people in 2024
- Rate applied
- about 1.5 more a minute (814,373 a year)
- How that rate was found
- The difference between the 2024 and 2025 estimates, divided by the time between them. It is our arithmetic on two published figures — the source does not publish this rate.
- Carried forward
- 0 days beyond the base figure's date
- Source
- UN World Population Prospects and national statistical offices, compiled by the World Bank · source updated 2026-07-13
- The source's own definition
- The values shown are midyear estimates.
THIS NUMBER IS NOT A MEASUREMENT, AND ITS MOVEMENT IS NOT NEWS. No country counts its population continuously. A census is periodic, and every figure between censuses — including the estimate this starts from — is a projection. What you are watching is that projection's trend applied to the clock on your phone. It moves because time passes, not because anyone was born or died. Treat the digits beyond the first few as arithmetic rather than knowledge: the trend is real, the precision is not.
- Population
- 212,812,4052025
- GDP
- 2,279,920,092,4922025
- GDP per capita
- 10,7132025
- Life expectancy at birth
- 76.0 years2024
- Exports
- 17.8%2025
- Imports
- 17.5%2025
Compiled by the World Bank from: World Population Prospects, United Nations (UN), uri: https://population.un.org/wpp/, publisher: UN Population Division · source updated 2026-07-13 · each figure is dated because the most recent value was chosen by us, not by the source
World Heritage Sites
26 World Heritage Sitesshow all
- Historic Town of Ouro Preto · inscribed 1980
- Historic Centre of the Town of Olinda · inscribed 1982
- Jesuit missions among the Guaraní · inscribed 1983 · shared with Argentina
- Historic Centre of Salvador da Bahia · inscribed 1985
- Sanctuary of Bom Jesus de Matosinhos · inscribed 1985
- Iguaçu National Park · inscribed 1986
- Brasília · inscribed 1987
The name shown for this site was not chosen. Two or more records carry an inscription-level number for it and give different names, so we show one of them without claiming it is the right one. It is unchosen, not known to be wrong.
- Serra da Capivara National Park · inscribed 1991
- Historic Centre of São Luís · inscribed 1997
- Historic Centre of the Town of Diamantina · inscribed 1999
- Discovery Coast Atlantic Forest Reserves · inscribed 1999
- Atlantic Forest South-East Reserves · inscribed 1999
- Central Amazon Conservation Complex · inscribed 2000
- Pantanal Conservation Area · inscribed 2000 · shared with Bolivia, Paraguay
- Brazilian Atlantic Islands: Fernando de Noronha and Atol das Rocas Reserves · inscribed 2001
The name shown for this site was not chosen. Two or more records carry an inscription-level number for it and give different names, so we show one of them without claiming it is the right one. It is unchosen, not known to be wrong.
- Cavernas do Peruaçu National Park · inscribed 2001
The name shown for this site was not chosen. Two or more records carry an inscription-level number for it and give different names, so we show one of them without claiming it is the right one. It is unchosen, not known to be wrong.
- Historic Centre of the Town of Goiás · inscribed 2001
- São Francisco Square · inscribed 2010
- Tijuca Forest · inscribed 2012
The name shown for this site was not chosen. Two or more records carry an inscription-level number for it and give different names, so we show one of them without claiming it is the right one. It is unchosen, not known to be wrong.
- Pampulha Modern Ensemble · inscribed 2016
- Valongo Wharf · inscribed 2017
- Paraty and Ilha Grande – Culture and Biodiversity · inscribed 2019
- Sítio Roberto Burle Marx · inscribed 2021
- Lençóis Maranhenses National Park · inscribed 2024
- Cavernas do Peruaçu Environmental Protection Area · inscribed 2025
- Amazonia Theaters · inscribed 2026
Register from Wikidata (CC0) · in inscription order · links go to UNESCO
Emergency numbers
- 188listed as: crisis hotline
- 190listed as: police
- 192listed as: emergency medical services
- 193listed as: fire department
Shown in numerical order, which is not an order of priority.
Listed by the source, mostly from ITU-T E.129. We have not dialled these numbers, and where a service is named it is the source's description rather than ours.
Explore this country
Regions
- Acre
- Alagoas
- Amapá
- Amazonas
- Bahia
- Ceará
- Espírito Santo
- Federal District
- Goiás
- Maranhão
- Mato Grosso
- Mato Grosso do Sul
- Minas Gerais
- Pará
- Paraíba
- Paraná
- Pernambuco
- Piauí
- Rio de Janeiro
- Rio Grande do Norte
- Rio Grande do Sul
- Rondônia
- Roraima
- Santa Catarina
- São Paulo
- Sergipe
- Tocantins
First-level regions as GeoNames lists them, shown alphabetically · each page computes daylight at the region’s own coordinates
Currency
BRL
News coverage here is counted from Aletheia’s bundled source registry plus the sources the Host had admitted as of 2026-09-07. A source admitted since that date has not reached this page yet, so this is a floor rather than a total.