Brazil
8-Digit Brazil CEP Postal Code Polygon Boundaries available with monthly, quarterly, or annual updates.
Sample Map: Brazil CEP Polygons
This map shows a sample of Brazil CEP Postal Code Polygon Boundaries. CEP polygons are commonly used in geographic information systems (GIS), mapping applications, logistics, market analysis, telecommunications, insurance, delivery planning, geocoding, and location intelligence.
The polygons provide geographic representations of individual Brazilian CEP areas, allowing users to visualize, query and analyze the territories associated with Brazil’s postal addressing system.
Select a polygon on the map to view attribution information.
Background: The Structure of the Brazilian CEP
Correios (Empresa Brasileira de Correios e Telégrafos) is Brazil’s national postal operator and administers the country’s CEP system.
CEP stands for Código de Endereçamento Postal and is Brazil’s postal addressing code. A CEP consists of eight numeric digits, normally written in the following format:
NNNNN-NNN
Example:
01311-000
The CEP system is used throughout Brazil to support the sorting, routing and delivery of mail and parcels. CEPs can be assigned to geographic localities as well as individual streets, sections of streets, buildings, companies, large-volume mail recipients, postal facilities and other specific delivery destinations.
Brazil is divided into 10 postal regions, identified by the first digit of the CEP. The remaining digits progressively identify smaller postal areas and ultimately the specific delivery destination represented by the CEP.
How Brazil CEP Codes Are Structured
The eight digits of a Brazilian CEP are organized hierarchically.
The first five digits describe progressively smaller postal divisions:
- 1st digit — Região Postal (Postal Region)
- 2nd digit — Sub-Região (Sub-region)
- 3rd digit — Setor (Sector)
- 4th digit — Subsetor (Subsector)
- 5th digit — Divisor de Subsetor (Subsector Division)
The final three digits following the hyphen are known as the sufixo (suffix).
CEP Suffix — The Last Three Digits
The final three digits provide the more detailed identification required for postal delivery.
Depending on the location, a CEP may identify a:
- Logradouro — street, avenue or other named thoroughfare
- Localidade — city, municipality, district or other locality
- Edifício — individual building
- Grande Usuário — high-volume postal customer
- Unidade dos Correios — Correios postal facility
- Código Especial — special postal destination
For example:
01311-000
The complete eight-digit CEP identifies the postal delivery area or destination, while the hierarchical digits preceding the suffix place it within Brazil’s broader postal geography.
Geographic Representation of Brazil CEPs
Brazilian CEPs are postal addressing identifiers rather than official administrative boundary units. In many areas, particularly larger cities, individual CEPs may correspond to a street, part of a street, a group of addresses, a building or another relatively small delivery area.
World Postal Maps converts this addressing information into GIS-ready polygon boundaries, providing a geographic representation of CEP coverage.
These boundaries make it possible to use Brazil’s CEP system for spatial analysis and applications where a geographic area is required instead of an address-level postal code lookup.
Brazil CEP Polygon Data
Our Brazil dataset provides polygon coverage for 8-digit CEPs throughout the country.
The data can be used to:
- Identify the CEP associated with a geographic location
- Display CEP territories on interactive maps
- Aggregate customer or demographic information by CEP
- Perform point-in-polygon CEP lookups
- Analyze sales, customers and service areas
- Support logistics and delivery applications
- Build geocoding and reverse-geocoding workflows
- Model telecommunications and utility service areas
- Perform insurance and risk analysis
- Support site selection and market analysis
Brazil CEP polygons are supplied in standard GIS formats and can be integrated into desktop GIS software, spatial databases, cloud mapping environments and enterprise location-intelligence platforms.
Brazil CEP Data Updates
Brazil’s postal geography changes over time as Correios introduces new CEPs, modifies address assignments and expands detailed CEP coverage.
World Postal Maps offers Brazil CEP polygon data with:
- Monthly updates
- Quarterly updates
- Annual updates
Licensing options are available for organizations requiring internal use, redistribution, commercial applications or derivative products.
Contact us at info@worldpostalmaps.com for Brazil CEP polygon samples, product specifications, licensing information and pricing.
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