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How many Brazilian states have you visited? Track all 27 on your iPhone

Brazil has 27 federative units — and almost nobody can say how many they've set foot in. Here's how to build, and prove, the map of your travels across the country.

Stamp Hunt Brasil stamps screen showing collected Brazilian state stamps at different proof tiers

Everyone has a country count ready to go, even if it’s a guess. Now ask someone how many Brazilian states they’ve visited and watch the maths fall apart. The count usually stalls somewhere between a graduation trip and that New Year’s Eve nobody is quite sure happened in Alagoas or Pernambuco.

First, the official denominator: Brazil has 26 states plus the Federal District — 27 federative units, per IBGE, the country’s official geography and statistics institute. It’s a more reachable scoreboard than the world’s 195 countries, which makes the collection more tempting, not less: completing the map of one country is a genuinely achievable life project.

And there has never been more travel to count. 2025 closed as the best year in the history of Brazilian domestic aviation: 101.2 million passengers flew within the country, up 8.4% on 2024 — breaking a record that had stood since 2015, according to Brazil’s Ministry of Tourism. Same story on the road: demand for bus travel grew 46% in 2025, per a ClickBus report published by the ministry.

In other words: an enormous amount of travelling, and almost no record surviving any of it. Domestic flights don’t stamp passports. Road-trips don’t issue boarding passes. Your crossings of Brazil are, officially, invisible.

The 27 stamps

Stamp Hunt Brasil exists to fix exactly that: every federative unit becomes a collectible stamp, and every stamp carries a proof tier — a mark of how strong your evidence of being there actually is. There are five:

  • Standard — just landed (or just remembered an old trip)? Pick the state and claim it instantly, no proof needed.
  • Common — confirm with in-state GPS. The app only checks which state you’re in; no coordinates are stored.
  • Snapshot — use a geotagged photo. The app reads only the state from the metadata, and the photo never leaves your device.
  • Rare — import flights with Brazilian airports from Flighty or Tripsy.
  • Legendary — scan the barcode on your boarding pass. If the origin or destination is a Brazilian airport, it’s Legendary on the spot.
Stamp Hunt Brasil Scan to unlock screen in light mode, with boarding pass, geotagged photo and GPS options Stamp Hunt Brasil Scan to unlock screen in dark mode, with boarding pass, geotagged photo and GPS options

The point of the tiers is that they cover every kind of trip. Crossed three states by car on a road-trip? GPS handles it. Took a bus with no formal record anywhere? A geotagged photo or a manual claim covers the route. Legendary stays reserved for flights — which is exactly why it’s the showcase of the collection.

Compare with whoever travels with you

A good collection begs for comparison, and here it happens without a social network: on the same Wi-Fi as a friend, Nearby Compare crosses your two collections anonymously — only your top tiers travel, with no name and no avatar attached. The “who knows Brazil better” argument, settled at the end of a barbecue, without anyone creating an account anywhere.

Stamp Hunt Brasil Nearby Compare screen in light mode Stamp Hunt Brasil Nearby Compare screen in dark mode

From Brazil to the world

If your wishlist crosses borders, the same logic runs in the international Stamp Hunt, with all 195 countries — we cover how to count (and prove) the countries you’ve visited in a separate guide. And if your plan is to dig old trips out of your photo library, it’s worth reading how to turn travel photos into proof — and GalleryCheckup will help clear out the duplicates and screenshots you find along the way.

Brazil has 27 stamps waiting. The barbecue question isn’t going away — the difference is that now you’ll have the map to answer it.

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