Editing Brazilian Highway System (section)

==Nomenclature==
[[Image:RodBandeirantes.jpg|thumb|right|[[Rodovia dos Bandeirantes]].]]
Brazilian [[State highways]] are named YY-XXX, where YY is the abbreviation of the [[Brazilian states|state]] which administers the highway and XXX is a number (e.g. [[SP-280]]; where SP means that the highway is administered by [[São Paulo state]]).

Brazilian National highways are named BR-XXX. National highways connect multiple states together, are of major importance to the [[Economy of Brazil|national economy]] and/or connect Brazil to another country. The meaning of the numbers are:

*000-099 - means that the highway runs radially from [[Brasília]]. It is an exception to the cases below.
*100-199 - means that the highway runs south–north
*200-299 - means that the highway runs west–east
*300-399 - means that the highway runs diagonally. Highways with odd numbers run northeast–southwest, while even numbers run northwest–southeast.
*400-499 - means that the highway interconnects between two major highways.
*600-699 - is a special designation given to highways of national importance but that just interconnect a highway to an important location. There currently are only two such highways in the country: BR-600 which connects the [[Itaipu Dam]] to [[BR-277]] and BR-610 which connects [[Guarulhos International Airport]] to [[BR-116]] and [[SP-070]].

Often Brazilian highways receive names (famous people, etc.), but continue to have a YY/BR-XXX name (for example: Rodovia [[Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco|Castelo Branco]] is also SP-280).

See [[highway system of São Paulo]] for the numbering designation used for [[São Paulo state|São Paulo]] [[State highway|state roads]], which is also used in some other [[Brazilian states|states]].