BR

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BR or Br may refer to:

Contents 1 Places 2 Business and organizations 3 Science 4 Computing 5 Music and media 6 Other uses 7 See also 8 Notes

[edit] Places

• BR postcode area, a group of eight postal districts in southeast London.
• Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
• Brazil (BR), according to:
  • Its two-letter country code defined in ISO 3166-1 alpha-2.
  • The prefix for Brazil's ISO 3166-2 subdivision codes.
  • FIPS 10-4, used by the U.S. Government for geographical data processing in many publications.
• The Province of Brindisi, according to Italy's ISO 3166-2 subdivision codes.
• Brown County, Kansas, according to its Kansas state county code, which is used on the state's license plates.

[edit] Business and organizations

• As an abbreviation for Best Regards. Used in online signatures such as email.
• BR, the symbol used by Petrobras Distribuidora, the fuel retail division of Petrobras.
• Banana Republic (clothing stores), a chain of clothing stores.
• Baskin-Robbins, a restaurant known for its ice cream.
• Bernstein-Rein, the ad agency best known for inventing the Happy Meal.
• British Rail (British Railways), the nationalised railway system of the United Kingdom from 1948 until 1994.
• Bangladesh Rail (Bangladesh Railways), the railway system of the Bangladesh
• Burlington Resources, a company purchased by ConocoPhillips in 2006.
• The IATA code for EVA Air, a Taiwanese airline.
• Brigate Rosse, an Italian leftist terrorist group mainly active in the seventies and early eighties.

[edit] Science

• Brassinosteroid a group of steroidal plant hormones.
• Bromine (Br), chemical element with atomic number 35.
• 1,3-Butadiene, a type of rubber.^[1]

[edit] Computing

• .br, country code top-level domain for Brazil.
• Newline element in:
  • XHTML (<br/>).
  • HTML (<br>).
• Bombing Run, an Unreal Tournament gametype introduced in Unreal Tournament 2003.

[edit] Music and media

• Bad Religion, an American punk-rock band.
• Battle Royale, a Japanese book, movie and manga.
• Bayerischer Rundfunk (Bavarian Broadcasting), a regional broadcasting service in Germany.
• Bohemian Rhapsody, a single by the british band Queen.

[edit] Other uses

• br, Breton language in ISO 639-1 language code.
• Bankruptcy (B/R in legal shorthand) or representing a debtor who has filed bankruptcy.
• Red Brigades (Brigate Rosse), an Italian militant leftist group.
• Bathroom in Internet slang.
• Battle Rifle in Halo 3 & Halo 2.
• Brother, in a religious community

[edit] See also

• Battle Royale (disambiguation).

[edit] Notes

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