Reviewed country profile
Brazil
Brazil is the largest country in South America and extends across the Equator as well as much of the continent’s tropical and subtropical interior.
Brazil territorial area
8,509,380 km²
Land and inland-water territorial surface area; EEZs, maritime claims, and map-projection display area are excluded.
Political-status classification: sovereign-state.
Map context and caveats
Because Brazil crosses the Equator, familiar cylindrical world maps stretch it less than high-latitude places such as Greenland or Russia. Measured area still provides the reliable comparison.
- The canonical value is the reviewed territorial-area figure published by Brazil’s national statistics agency, IBGE.
- The measurement excludes exclusive economic zones and maritime claims.