🇧🇷 Brazil 27 administrative divisions

27 first-level administrative divisions — states, provinces, regions or counties, depending on the country — and 8,712 cities and towns, each with latitude and longitude. Public domain, free to download, no API key.

The country

ISO 3166-1: BR · BRA · 076
Capital: Brasilia
Continent: South America
Currency: BRL — Brazilian real
Calling code: +55
Internet domain: .br
Divisions: 27
Cities and towns: 8,712

Divisions

The 27 divisions of Brazil

27 of them carry an ISO 3166-2 code. Counts are cities and towns inside each division.

Division	ISO 3166-2	Cities and towns	Population
Minas Gerais	BR-MG	1,472	20,869,101
Sao Paulo	BR-SP	1,407	44,035,304
Rio Grande do Sul	BR-RS	655	11,322,895
Bahia	BR-BA	646	15,203,934
Parana	BR-PR	468	11,320,892
Ceara	BR-CE	380	9,020,460
Santa Catarina	BR-SC	378	7,001,161
Rio de Janeiro	BR-RJ	373	16,635,996
Maranhao	BR-MA	285	7,000,229
Goias	BR-GO	280	6,730,848
Pernambuco	BR-PE	269	9,473,266
Paraiba	BR-PB	266	4,025,558
Rio Grande do Norte	BR-RN	241	3,507,003
Piaui	BR-PI	228	3,219,257
Para	BR-PA	219	8,272,724
Mato Grosso	BR-MT	197	3,344,544
Espirito Santo	BR-ES	163	3,885,049
Tocantins	BR-TO	147	1,550,194
Alagoas	BR-AL	124	3,322,820
Amazonas	BR-AM	118	4,001,667
Sergipe	BR-SE	117	2,288,116
Mato Grosso do Sul	BR-MS	102	2,839,188
Rondonia	BR-RO	65	1,581,196
Amapa	BR-AP	63	797,722
Acre	BR-AC	27	758,786
Roraima	BR-RR	16	652,713
Federal District	BR-DF	5	2,570,160

A further 1 places could not be matched to a division and are listed separately in the API as "unassigned": true.

Get it

Both files, in one request each

# every division of Brazil
curl -s https://api.placedb.org/v1/regions/BR.json

# the cities and towns of one division (id from the file above)
curl -s https://api.placedb.org/v1/cities/BR/<id>.json

No key, no account, no rate limit. The endpoints · try it live.