Brazil

The country calling code for Brazil is +55. Country calling codes identify the destination country when placing an international call. The international access prefix used to leave your originating country varies by telephone network. On mobile phones, the + symbol is generally used instead. After the country code, dial the local Brazil number, dropping any leading zero used for domestic dialling.

Brazil is assigned BR as its ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code and BRA as its alpha-3 code. Alpha-2 codes are the two-letter codes used in web addresses, currency pairs and shipping forms. Alpha-3 codes are the three-letter codes used in banking, aviation and international standards work. The internet country code top-level domain for Brazil is .br. ISO country codes are standardized identifiers, but they can change when countries or territories undergo changes in international status or classification.

The official currency of Brazil is the Brazilian real, with the ISO 4217 code BRL and the symbol R$. Prices, salaries and official accounts inside Brazil are quoted in BRL. Exchange rates move daily, so check a live rate before converting rather than relying on a figure you saw last week.

The primary time zone for Brazil is -05:00, currently UTC-05:00. This country spans multiple time zones. The clock above shows the primary time zone, so local time elsewhere in Brazil may differ. The clock reads from your own device, so it follows daylight saving rather than showing a fixed offset.

The capital of Brazil is Brasília. Brazil sits in Americas, specifically the South America subregion. Its approximate centre point is -10.00000000, -55.00000000. Traffic in Brazil drives on the right. Languages recorded for Brazil: Portuguese.

Brazil shares a land border with 11 countries: Argentina, Bolivia (Plurinational State of), Colombia, France, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay and Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of). Land borders are not the same as nearest countries: a country across a narrow strait can be closer than one you share a fence with. The nearby page ranks countries by straight-line distance instead.