BR

BR

BR or Br may refer to:

Places

* Ballycastle Railway, a former narrow gauge railway in north-east Ireland
* Barbados
* Baton Rouge, Louisiana
* BR postal area, a group of eight postal districts in southeast London
* Brazil
** BR-, the prefix for subdivision codes
* Brindisi, Italy (ISO 3166-2:IT suffix)
* Bromley, England (postcode)
* Brown County, Kansas

Business and organizations

* Banana Republic, a clothing store chain
* Bernstein-Rein, the ad agency best known for inventing the Happy Meal
* BR Beautiful Revolution, Korean cosmetic company
* BR, symbol used by Petrobras Distribuidora, the fuel retail division of Petrobras
* British Caledonian (IATA code)
* British Railways or British Rail
* Burlington Resources, a company purchased by ConocoPhillips in 2006
* EVA Air (IATA code)

Computing

* .br, country code top-level domain for Brazil
* Blu-ray Disc, officially abbreviated BD
* Line break element in:
** XHTML (
)
** HTML (
)

Music and media

* Bad Religion, an American punk-rock band
* Bass reflex, a type of loudspeaker enclosure
* "Battle Royale", a Japanese book, movie and manga
* , a "Magic: The Gathering" boxed set
* Battle Rifle, a burst-fire scope assault rifle prominent in the videogames "Halo 2" and "Halo 3"
* Bayerischer Rundfunk, a regional broadcasting service in Germany
* Bombing Run, an "Unreal Tournament" gametype introduced in "Unreal Tournament 2003"
* An abbreviation for brass instruments in an orchestral score

Other uses

* Bankruptcy (B/R in legal shorthand) or representing a debtor who has filed bankruptcy
* Breton language (ISO 639-1)
* "Brigate Rosse" (Red Brigades in English), an Italian militant lefist group
* British Rail (British Railways), the nationalised railway system of the United Kingdom from 1948 until 1994
* Bromine (Br), chemical element with atomic number 35
* Butadiene rubber, a type of rubber [The use of the abbreviation "BR" as refering to "butadiene" is based on: The Open University (UK), 2000. "T838 Design and Manufacture with Polymers: Introduction to Polymers", page 9. Milton Keynes: The Open University.]

See also

* Battle Royale (disambiguation)

Notes


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