Americas
Brazil
Everything you need to know about Brazil for geography games and satellite imagery — capital, population, time zone, and how to recognise it from above.
Quick facts
How to spot Brazil from satellite imagery
Brazil is enormous — 8.5 million square kilometres, larger than the contiguous United States, and home to landscapes so distinctive that a single satellite frame is often enough to know where you are. The Amazon Basin alone covers an area roughly the size of Australia. The Cerrado, Brazil's vast tropical savanna, is one of the largest single biomes on the continent. And the agricultural frontier expanding through Mato Grosso has a visual signature unlike anywhere else on Earth.
If you play geography games regularly, learning to spot Brazil is one of the highest-leverage skills you can develop. Brazil shows up in a lot of rounds because it is large, and most of those rounds can be solved within seconds if you know the country's three or four characteristic landscape types. This guide walks through each of them.
Read the full satellite guideCan you find Brazil from above?
Test your geography skills on a 3D globe and see how often you place this country correctly.