Brazil
| Federative Republic of Brazil
República Federativa do Brasil (pt)
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| Motto: "Ordem e Progresso" (Portuguese) "Order and Progress" |
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| Anthem: Hino Nacional Brasileiro (Portuguese) "Brazilian National Anthem" |
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| National seal Selo Nacional do Brasil .svg){kind=small} (Portuguese) "National Seal of Brazil" |
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| Capital | Brasília 15°45′S 47°57′W / 15.75°S 47.95°W |
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| Largest city | São Paulo | |||||
| Official language(s) | Portuguese[1] | |||||
| Ethnic groups (2010[2]) | 47.73% White 43.13% Brown (Multiracial) 7.61% Black 1.09% Asian 0.43% Amerindian |
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| Demonym | Brazilian | |||||
| Government | Federal presidential constitutional republic | |||||
| - | President | Dilma Rousseff (PT) | ||||
| - | Vice President | Michel Temer (PMDB) | ||||
| - | President of the Chamber of Deputies | Marco Maia (PT) | ||||
| - | President of the Senate | José Sarney (PMDB) | ||||
| - | Chief Justice | Cezar Peluso | ||||
| Legislature | National Congress | |||||
| - | Upper House | Federal Senate | ||||
| - | Lower House | Chamber of Deputies | ||||
| Independence | from United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves | |||||
| - | Declared | 7 September 1822 | ||||
| - | Recognized | 29 August 1825 | ||||
| - | Republic | 15 November 1889 | ||||
| - | Current constitution | 5 October 1988 | ||||
| Area | ||||||
| - | Total | 8,514,877 km2 (5th) 3,287,597 sq mi |
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| - | Water (%) | 0.65 | ||||
| Population | ||||||
| - | 2010 census | 190,732,694[3] (5th) | ||||
| - | Density | 22/km2 (182nd) 57/sq mi |
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| GDP (PPP) | 2010 estimate | |||||
| - | Total | $2.172 trillion[4] | ||||
| - | Per capita | $11,239[4] | ||||
| GDP (nominal) | 2010 estimate | |||||
| - | Total | $2.090 trillion[4] | ||||
| - | Per capita | $10,816[4] | ||||
| Gini (2010) | ▼53.6[5] (high) | |||||
| HDI (2011) | 0.718[6] (high) (84th) | |||||
| Currency | Real (R$) ([[ISO 4217|BRL]]) |
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| Time zone | BRT[7] (UTC-2 to -4[7]) | |||||
| - | Summer (DST) | BRST (UTC-2 to -4) | ||||
| Date formats | dd/mm/yyyy (CE) | |||||
| Drives on the | right | |||||
| Internet TLD | .br | |||||
| Calling code | +55 | |||||
Brazil (officially called as Federative Republic of Brazil) is a country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country. The country has a population of about 195 million people. People in Brazil speak Portuguese and it is the only country in Latin America that speaks Portuguese; some people in Brazil speak German dialects (came from regional dialects of German immigrants, 0.8% Brazilians speak German as their mother tongue) and Indigenous Brazilian languages. Italian dialects, Japanese dialects, French dialects, and as the result of recent immigration South American Spanish dialects, Guaraní and Aymará are also present and spoken as mother tongue of a minority of Brazilians. The capital of Brazil is Brasília, a city planned and built from 1957 to 1960.
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[change] Geography
Brazil has the world's largest rain forest, the Amazon Rainforest. It makes up 40% of the country's land area. Brazil also has other types of land; there is a type of savanna called cerrado; there is also a dry plant region named caatinga. Caatinga means white vegetation in Tupi, a native language of Brazil.
The most important cities are São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Salvador, Brasília, Curitiba, Belo Horizonte, Porto Alegre, Recife, Fortaleza, Manaus, Goiânia and Vitória.
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Brazil is the largest country in South America and the largest economy in Latin America. Its people include people of Portuguese or other European descent, African descent, and native Amerindians, as well as many people of mixed origins. Brazil also has the biggest number of Japanese descendents outside Japan. The country is the fifth largest in the world by area. It is known for its numerous rainforests and jungles. It neighbours Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Venezuela, Colombia, Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay, Argentina and Uruguay, therefore it borders every country in South America, with the exception of two, Chile and Ecuador.
People from Brazil are called Brazilians[8] (brasileiros in Brazilian Portuguese language).
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- ↑ "Demographics". Brazilian Government. 2011. http://www.brasil.gov.br/sobre/brazil/brazil-in-numbers/demographics. Retrieved 2011-10-08. (English)
- ↑ Caracteristicas da População e dos Domicílios do Censo Demográfico 2010 — Cor ou raça
- ↑ IBGE. Censo 2010: população do Brasil é de 190.732.694 pessoas.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 "Brazil". International Monetary Fund. http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2011/01/weodata/weorept.aspx?sy=2008&ey=2011&scsm=1&ssd=1&sort=country&ds=.&br=1&c=223&s=NGDPD%2CNGDPDPC%2CPPPGDP%2CPPPPC%2CLP&grp=0&a=&pr.x=25&pr.y=4. Retrieved 2011-04-21.
- ↑ Caracteristicas da População e dos Domicílios do Censo Demográfico 2010 — Rendimento
- ↑ UNDP Human Development Report 2011. "Table 1: Human development index 2011 and its components" (PDF). UNDP. http://hdr.undp.org/en/media/HDR_2011_EN_Table1.pdf. Retrieved 2011-12-04.
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