Paises Que Começam Com A Letra B

Countries That Start With B: A Practical Guide

When you need to sort or filter countries alphabetically, you quickly realize that starting with B isn't as straightforward as just writing out a list. I've dealt with this more times than I can count — filling out forms, building dropdown menus, validating addresses. The problem is that "countries starting with B" looks simple on paper but gets messy fast once you start working with real data. I remember one particularly annoying project where we had to build a multi-select country field for an e-commerce site. The client wanted everything sorted alphabetically by language. For English speakers, that meant Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei, and Bulgaria. But when we switched to Portuguese for the Brazilian market, the names changed: Bangladesh stayed the same, but "Belarus" became "Bielorrússia," and "Bosnia and Herzegovina" turned into "Bósnia e Herzegovina." Not a huge deal until you realize your sorting algorithm broke because the letters didn't match what people were actually typing. The key insight most beginners miss is that alphabetical sorting by country name is fundamentally flawed if you don't account for diacritics and special characters. In Portuguese, the sorting order treats "B" and "Bó" differently than English does. Windows file explorers, database collations, and even Excel will sort these differently depending on locale settings. If you're building anything that handles international data, you need to normalize the collation first, then sort. Otherwise you'll end up with Belize appearing after Bolivia just because of how the database engine interprets the accented characters.

Complete list of paises que começam com a letra b

Here is the straightforward list, in Portuguese, since that is the language you asked for. I am not going to over-explain each one. These are sovereign states recognized by the United Nations, listed alphabetically in Portuguese: Bahamas – Arquipélago no Caribe. Capital: Nassau. População aproximada: 400 mil. Bahrain – Ilha no Golfo Pérsico. Capital: Manama. População: cerca de 1,5 milhão.

Bangladesh – Sul da Ásia. Capital: Daca. População: mais de 168 milhões. Um dos países mais densamente povoados do mundo. Barbados – Ilha no Caribe. Capital: Bridgetown. População: cerca de 290 mil. Bielo-Rússia / Bielorrússia – Leste europeu. Capital: Minsk. População: cerca de 9,4 milhões. Ambos os nomes são usados em português; o uso oficial tem mudado ao longo dos anos.

Bélgica – Europa Ocidental. Capital: Bruxelas. População: cerca de 11,6 milhões. Membro fundador da União Europeia. Belize – América Central. Capital: Belmopan. População: cerca de 400 mil. O único país da região onde o inglês é língua oficial. Benim – África Ocidental. Capital: Porto-Novo. População: cerca de 13 milhões.

Bhutão – Himalaia. Capital: Thimphu. População: cerca de 780 mil. Mede felicidade interna bruta em vez de PIB. Bósnia e Herzegovina – Balcãs. Capital: Sarajevo. População: cerca de 3,3 milhões. O processo de ordenação alfabética aqui sempre causa confusão porque algumas listas colocam sob "B" e outras sob "H" de Herzegovina. Botsuana – Sul da África. Capital: Gaborone. População: cerca de 2,4 milhões. Um dos poucos países africanos que nunca teve golpe de estado.

Brasil – América do Sul. Capital: Brasília. População: cerca de 215 milhões. O maior país da América Latina e o quinto do mundo em área. Brunei – Sudeste Asiático. Capital: Bandar Seri Begawan. População: cerca de 440 mil. Monarquia absoluta com vasta riqueza em petróleo e gás natural. Bulgária – Europa Sudeste. Capital: Sófia. População: cerca de 6,5 milhões. Entrou na UE em 2007.

Burkina Faso – África Ocidental. Capital: Ouagadougou. População: cerca de 22 milhões. Mudou de nome em 1984, antes disso era Alto Volta. Burundi – África Central. Capital: Gitega. População: cerca de 12 milhões. República Popular da China – Nota: China não começa com B. Não incluí por engano. Às vezes aparecem listas erradas na internet porque confundem com "Formosa" ou nomes antigos.

That last point about incorrect lists online is actually the most common problem people face. If you search "países que começam com a letra b," you will find several pages that either include territories that are not countries (like Hong Kong or Macau) or miss countries that clearly start with B. I once spent two hours fixing a dataset where someone had included "Bonaire" as a country when it is actually a special municipality of the Netherlands, and they had forgotten about "Burundi" entirely. The fix was to cross-reference with the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 standard. If you are working with country data professionally, that is the list you should use. It is maintained by the International Organization for Standardization and it is the baseline for everything from shipping labels to tax forms.

Why this matters in practice

I mentioned the e-commerce form earlier, but there is another scenario that is worse. Immigration and customs data. When I was helping a logistics company set up their shipping portal, they had to validate country names against a government API that used Portuguese-language country codes. Their system kept rejecting shipments from "Bósnia e Herzegovina" because the API expected the older French-derived code "BIH" while the dropdown showed the Portuguese name. The workaround was to build a mapping table between display names and official ISO codes, then validate both. It added about ten minutes to the initial setup but saved hours of support tickets later. Another thing to watch out for: the European Union has an official multilingual list of country names, and the Portuguese version differs slightly from what you find in Brazil versus Portugal. "Bielorrússia" is the preferred term in European Portuguese, while "Bielo-Rússia" appears in some older Brazilian references. The difference is small but it matters if you are localizing software for multiple audiences.

A few less obvious cases

Sometime people ask whether "Timor-Leste" counts. It does not start with B, but it is worth noting that some older lists referred to it as "Timor Português" or "Timor Oriental," and neither of those start with B either. No confusion there, but I have seen it come up. Another edge case: Kosovo. It is a partially recognized state. Some databases include it under "K" and others under "Kosovo" with a note. It does not start with B regardless of how you handle it, so it stays out of this list. The same applies to Palestine, which appears under "P" in most standards. If you need a downloadable reference, the ISO 3166-1 standard is freely available through the ISO website, though it requires purchase for the complete document. The United Nations Statistics Division publishes a free list at unstats.un.org/unsd/methodology/m49/. Neither is a "download one click" solution, but they are the authoritative sources. Anything else you find online is someone's interpretation, and those tend to have errors like the one I described with Bonaire.

The actual work of dealing with country names is mostly about knowing which source to trust and being careful with diacritics. Once you have the right reference list and a normalization step in your sorting logic, the rest is routine. It is tedious, not difficult. That is probably the most useful thing I can say about it.