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Brazil States Quiz

Tap or click each state it names: 26 states and the district around Brasília.

Brazil States Quiz

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Write the name of each numbered federative unit.Answer key

  1. Acre
  2. Alagoas
  3. Amapá
  4. Amazonas
  5. Bahia
  6. Ceará
  7. Distrito Federal
  8. Espírito Santo
  9. Goiás
  10. Maranhão
  11. Mato Grosso
  12. Mato Grosso do Sul
  13. Minas Gerais
  14. Pará
  15. Paraíba
  16. Paraná
  17. Pernambuco
  18. Piauí
  19. Rio de Janeiro
  20. Rio Grande do Norte
  21. Rio Grande do Sul
  22. Rondônia
  23. Roraima
  24. Santa Catarina
  25. São Paulo
  26. Sergipe
  27. Tocantins

Drawn for this site from Natural Earth 5.1.2. Licence: public domain.

Each federative unit is a button. Use the arrow keys to move between them and Enter to choose. Names are read out in Study, and once a federative unit is answered.

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North 7

  1. Acre Capital: Rio Branco. The westernmost point of the country is here. Clocks run two hours behind Brasília. Brazil gained the land from Bolivia by the Treaty of Petrópolis in 1903, and it became a state in 1962.
  2. Amapá Capital: Macapá. It borders French Guiana and Suriname. It became a state in 1988. No road links it to any other Brazilian state.
  3. Amazonas Capital: Manaus, where the Negro and Solimões rivers meet. The largest state, at 1,559,159 square kilometers. Pico da Neblina, the highest mountain in Brazil, is here.
  4. Pará Capital: Belém, near the mouth of the Amazon. The second largest state. Marajó, an island of about 40,000 square kilometers, close to the size of Switzerland, belongs to it. It borders Guyana and Suriname.
  5. Rondônia Capital: Porto Velho, on the Madeira River. Named after the explorer Cândido Rondon. It was the Federal Territory of Guaporé from 1943 and took its present name in 1956. It borders Bolivia.
  6. Roraima Capital: Boa Vista, the only state capital entirely north of the equator. The northernmost and least populous state, with 636,707 people in 2022. A state since 1988. Monte Caburaí here is the northernmost point of Brazil.
  7. Tocantins Capital: Palmas, a city begun in 1989. The newest state, made in 1988 from the northern part of Goiás. Bananal Island and the Jalapão region are here.

Northeast 9

  1. Alagoas Capital: Maceió. The second smallest state, larger only than Sergipe. It was split from Pernambuco in 1817, and the capital moved to Maceió in 1839.
  2. Bahia Capital: Salvador, founded in 1549. It was the capital of colonial Brazil until 1763. Bahia has the longest coastline of any state, and Cabral landed at Porto Seguro in 1500.
  3. Ceará Capital: Fortaleza, the fourth most populous city in Brazil. Ceará was the first province to abolish slavery, on March 25, 1884.
  4. Maranhão Capital: São Luís, on an island between two bays. The French founded it in 1612 and were driven out in 1615. The dunes of Lençóis Maranhenses are in this state.
  5. Paraíba Capital: João Pessoa. The easternmost point of the mainland Americas is here. At Ponta do Seixas, on its coast.
  6. Pernambuco Capital: Recife. Olinda, the colonial capital, is a World Heritage Site. The islands of Fernando de Noronha have been part of the state since 1988.
  7. Piauí Capital: Teresina, the only Northeast capital not on the coast. Its 66 kilometers of coastline are the shortest of any coastal state. The Parnaíba River separates it from Maranhão.
  8. Rio Grande do Norte Capital: Natal. The state forms the northeastern corner of South America. Rocas Atoll, the only atoll in the South Atlantic, lies 260 kilometers northeast of Natal.
  9. Sergipe Capital: Aracaju. The smallest state, at 21,915 square kilometers. Only the Federal District is smaller.

Central-West 4

  1. Distrito Federal Home of Brasília, the national capital since April 21, 1960. It is not a state: it has the powers of both a state and a city and cannot be divided into municipalities. It was carved out of Goiás.
  2. Goiás Capital: Goiânia, a planned city begun in 1933. It took over as capital in 1937. The Federal District was carved out of Goiás in 1960, and its northern part became Tocantins in 1988.
  3. Mato Grosso Capital: Cuiabá. The name means thick bush. The third largest state, it reaches into the Amazon forest, the Cerrado and the Pantanal, and it is the largest soy producer in Brazil.
  4. Mato Grosso do Sul Capital: Campo Grande. It borders Paraguay and Bolivia. Part of the Pantanal wetland lies inside it. Created by a law of October 11, 1977 that took effect on January 1, 1979.

Southeast 4

  1. Espírito Santo Capital: Vitória, which stands on an island. It is not the largest city in the state. The islands of Trindade and Martim Vaz, far out in the Atlantic, belong to Espírito Santo.
  2. Minas Gerais Capital: Belo Horizonte. The name means General Mines. Named after the gold rush around Ouro Preto. Second in population, it has 853 municipalities, more than any other state.
  3. Rio de Janeiro Capital: Rio de Janeiro, the national capital from 1763 to 1960. The city then became a state of its own, Guanabara, which merged into this state in 1975.
  4. São Paulo Capital: São Paulo. The state with the most people. It had 44,411,238 at the 2022 census, more than one in five Brazilians. The Tropic of Capricorn passes at about the latitude of the capital.

South 3

  1. Paraná Capital: Curitiba, also its largest city. A province since 1853. Iguaçu National Park is on the border with Argentina, and the Itaipu Dam is on the border with Paraguay.
  2. Rio Grande do Sul Capital: Porto Alegre. The southernmost state, bordering Uruguay and Argentina. The home of gaucho culture. Arroio Chuí, at its tip, is the southernmost point of Brazil.
  3. Santa Catarina Capital: Florianópolis, founded on Santa Catarina Island. Joinville is larger, so this is one of only two states where the capital is not the largest city. Snow falls on its southern plateau in some winters.

How this list was compiled: Names and kinds written for this site and checked on 2026-09-19 against https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-2:BR. Capitals, areas, the standing of the Federal District and the years some units were set up checked the same day against https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federative_units_of_Brazil. People: the 2022 census of IBGE, reference date 1 August 2022, as listed at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Brazilian_census (the population column of the federative units list is headed 2026, which is later than the census and so not a census count, and it was not used). The five regions are the official IBGE regions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regions_of_Brazil. Extreme points: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_extreme_points_of_Brazil. National capitals: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitals_of_Brazil. Marajó: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maraj%C3%B3, read on 2026-09-19 (the island is 40,100 square kilometers; 49,602 is the whole archipelago). Also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_of_Brazil. The second fact of each detail line comes from the Wikipedia article of that state, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/<name>, for Acre (state), Alagoas, Amapá, Amazonas (Brazilian state), Bahia, Ceará, Espírito Santo, Goiás, Maranhão, Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, Minas Gerais, Pará, Paraná (state), Pernambuco, Piauí, Rio Grande do Norte, Rio Grande do Sul, Rondônia, Roraima, Santa Catarina (state) and Tocantins, all read on 2026-09-19. Neighbors and coasts named in the hints were worked out from the drawing itself. Boundaries follow Natural Earth. Licence: own work

The drawing: Drawn for this site from Natural Earth 5.1.2, ne_50m_admin_1_states_provinces_lakes (scale 1:50,000,000), https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvkelso/natural-earth-vector/v5.1.2/geojson/ne_50m_admin_1_states_provinces_lakes.geojson, downloaded 2026-09-19. Surrounding land from Natural Earth 5.1.2, ne_50m_admin_0_countries_lakes (scale 1:50,000,000), https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvkelso/natural-earth-vector/v5.1.2/geojson/ne_50m_admin_0_countries_lakes.geojson, downloaded 2026-09-19. Lambert azimuthal equal-area projection centred on 14.5°S 54°W. Outlines simplified; small islands are left out. Licence: public domain (Natural Earth terms of use: https://www.naturalearthdata.com/about/terms-of-use/)

How it works

Twenty-seven shapes fill this Brazil states quiz: the 26 states and the Federal District around Brasília, grouped into the five official regions so you can learn one region at a time. The district is too small to tap, so it carries a numbered ring.

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Five regions instead of 27 shapes

The regions under Start from follow the five IBGE regions: North (7 states), Northeast (9), Central-West (3 states and the Federal District), Southeast (4) and South (3). Start with the South: three states stacked down the coast. Leave the Northeast for last: five of its nine states are under 100,000 square kilometers and crowd the eastern tip.

Capitals and one fact per state

This Brazilian states quiz never asks for capitals: it shows each one after your answer, with one checked fact. In two states the capital is not the largest city: Santa Catarina, where Joinville is bigger than Florianópolis, and Espírito Santo. A wrong tap shows the right state, and Practise the ones you missed replays them. Print blank gives a numbered map with 27 lines.

  • Mato Grosso do Sul sits below Mato Grosso. Rio Grande do Norte and Rio Grande do Sul are at opposite ends of the coast.
  • Ten shapes have no coast on this map, from Roraima at the top to Mato Grosso do Sul. Learn that inland block first.
  • Typed answers forgive missing accents, so Sao Paulo and Goias count. Federal District and Brasilia both work for the ringed shape.

Questions and answers

Does Brazil have 26 states or 27?

It has 26 states. The 27th shape, the Federal District, holds Brasília, the capital since April 21, 1960. It is not a state and cannot be divided into municipalities. The counter says 27 federative units, the official term for the states and the district together.

Can I use this Brazil map quiz to learn the regions?

Yes. A region picked under Start from limits the round to that region and zooms the map in. The North is the largest, about 45 percent of the country's area in 7 states. The Southeast's 4 states held 41.8 percent of the population at the 2022 census.

Which Brazilian state is the largest?

Amazonas, at 1,559,159 square kilometers, larger than Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay combined. Pará is second. Sergipe is the smallest state at 21,915 square kilometers. São Paulo has the most people, 44,411,238 at the 2022 census.

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