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   1.234,45

(where , indicates the decimal separator and . the thousands separator)

   Note: This section last updated 1st April 2021

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The 24-hour clock notation is used.

   14:32

Brazil’s official language is Portuguese , spoken by a large majority of the population. 194 other languages are known to exist, including large numbers of Indian languages. The most widespread of these are: Amapá Creole (25 000 speakers); Baniwa (5 460 speakers); Guajajára (10 000 speakers); Guaraní (5 000 speakers); Kaingáng (18 000 speakers); Kaiwá (15 000 speakers); Plautdietsch (5 955 speakers); Sataré-Mawé (9 000 speakers); Terêna (15 000 speakers); Ticuna (12 000 speakers); Xavánte (8 000 speakers) and Yanomámi (9 000 speakers).

   Note: This section last updated 4th November 2014

Senhorita is used in Brazil for younger unmarried women (though rarely) in preference to Menina, used in Portugal. The given name and the final surname is used when writing to a Brazilian.

   Tables of forms of address  can be acquired

The most common company legal types which will be found in Brazilian databases are:

   Limitada (Ltda) - Limited
   Sociedade Anônima (S/A)
   Sociedade em Comandita Simples (S.C.S.) – limited partnership
   Sociedade em Conta de Participação (SCP) - partnership
   Sociedade em Nome Coletivo - general partnership
   Sociedade por Ações (S.A.) – privately held company
   Sociedade por Quotas de Responsabilidade Limitada – limited liability company

   Comprehensive tables of these strings can be acquired – see http://www.grcdi.nl/addresses.htm 

   Note: This section last updated 2nd January 2021

Addresses are written in the format:

   Form of address
   Name
   Thoroughfare type[ ]Thoroughfare Name{[, ]}number{[, ]apartment etc. indicators}
   {Neighbourhood}
   postal code[ ]SETTLEMENT[ - ]STATE CODE

For example:

Addresses may also be found with the postal code written on its own at the bottom of the address block, like this:

Larger cities are divided into neighbourhoods (barrios) which may be found in addresses.

The planned city of Brasilía has no street names. It is divided into sectors (setores, SBN), which are in turn divided into quadras (Q) and then into blocos. These indicators are used in addresses as, for example:

The states and their abbreviations are:

State	Abbreviation	First digit of postal code
Acre	AC	699
Alagoas	AL	57
Amapá	AP	689
Amazonas	AM	690-692, 694-698
Bahia	BA	40-48
Ceará	CE	60-63
Distrito Federal	DF	700-727, 730-736
Espírito Santo	ES	29
Goiás	GO	728-729, 737-769
Maranhão	MA	65
Mato Grosso	MT	780-788
Mato Grosso do Sul	MS	79
Minas Gerais	MG	3
Pará	PA	66-688
Paraíba	PB	58
Paraná	PR	80-87
Pernambuco	PE	50-56
Piauí	PI	64
Rio de Janeiro	RJ	20-28
Rio Grande do Norte	RN	59
Rio Grande do Sul	RS	9
Rondônia	RO	789
Rorâima	RR	693
Santa Catarina	SC	88-89
São Paulo	SP	0 and 1
Sergipe	SE	49
Tocantins	TO	77

   This regions/postal code data can be acquired as a data file 

For thoroughfare and other address component information, please refer to the chapter on Portugal. There are some terms used in Brazil and not in Portugal, including térreo (storey); sobrado (loft) and fazenda/chácara (Farm, ranch).

Street sign in Brazil showing the district, street name, postal code and building number range. Source: Wikipedia

   A table containing information about the relevant position of elements within address blocks can be acquired 

The word for post office box is caixa postal, abbreviated to CP.

Postal codes (Código de Endereçamento Postal, CEP, introduced in 1992) consists of 8 digits in the format:

   99999[-]999

The first digit indicates the region, the second a sub-region, the third a sector, the fourth a sub-sector, the fifth a part of a sub-sector, and the numbers after the hyphen indicate the point of delivery.

The final three digits range between 000 and 899 for street addresses; 900 to 959 for “special codes”; 960 to 969 for “promotional postal codes”; 970 to 989 and 999 for postal use; and 990 to 998 for post office boxes.

   Metadata containing postal code formatting rules, exceptions and regular expressions can be acquired 

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Brazil - Postal code map

   Note: This section last updated 22nd August 2014

Refer to Exonyms in Brazil for full lists of place names in Brazil in other languages.

   Alternate place name forms/postal code tables can be acquired at http://www.grcdi.nl/settlements.htm 

   Other language place name data can be acquired at http://www.grcdi.nl/otherlanguageplace.htm 

Brazil is divided into 26 states (estados , singular - estado) and 1 federal district (distrito federal). Their abbreviations are used in addresses. Please see the section “Address format” above.

Administrative districts graphic

   Note: This section last updated 6th November 2016

Brazilian area codes have 2 digits when called from abroad. All subscriber numbers have 8 or 9 digits. Mobile numbers share the same area codes as geographic numbers, but the first digit of the subscriber number is 9.