BRAZIL MAP/GEOGRAPHIC INFO

[trilingual]

Brazil is a huge country, larger than the lower-48 U.S. states. It's divided into 25 (or maybe 26?) states. When you research Brazilian sites for travel information, you may find that the listings are by state, and not by city. To figure out what state a city is located in, you'll need a good map. This is a pretty good one, showing the states, the regions into which Brazil is officially divided, major cities and time zones.

 

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To research information, you will also find it useful to know the names of the state capitals (which are also most of the major cities) and the two-letter abbreviations for each of the states. Starting from the deepest south, by region, they are:

 

SOUTH:

 

Rio Grande do Sul (RS): Porto Alegre

Santa Catarina (SC): Florianópolis

Paraná (PR): Curitiba

 

SOUTHEAST:

 

São Paulo (SP): São Paulo

Rio de Janeiro (RJ): Rio de Janeiro

Minas Gerais (MG): Belo Horizonte

Espírito Santo (ES): Vitória

 

NORTHEAST:

 

Bahia (BA): Salvador

Sergipe (SE): Aracaju

Alagoas (AL): Maceió

Pernambuco (PN): Recife

Paraíba (PB): João Pessoa

Rio Grande do Norte (RN): Natal

Ceará (CE): Fortaleza

Piauí (PI): Teresina

Maranhão (MA): São Luis

 

NORTH:

 

Pará (PA): Belém

Amapá (AP): Macapá

Amazonas (AM): Manaus

Roraima (RR): Boa Vista

Acre (AC): Rio Branco

Rondônia (RO): Porto Velho

Tocantins (TO): Palmas

 

CENTER-WEST:

 

Goiás (GO): Goiânia

Mato Grosso (MT): Cuiabá

Mato Grosso do Sul (MS): Campo Grande

Distrito Federal (DF): Brasília