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Brazil
sovereign state, secular state, country, federal republic
Part ofLatin America, Ibero-America, Southern Cone, South America Edit
Year dem found am7 September 1822 Edit
Official nameRepública Federativa do Brasil Edit
Native labelRepública Federativa do Brasil Edit
Short nameBRA Edit
IPA transcriptionbɾaˈziw Edit
Ethnic groupWhite Brazilians, Pardo Brazilians, African Brazilians, Asian Brazilians, indigenous peoples in Brazil Edit
Participant insydSouth American dreadnought race, BASIC countries, G4 nations, Global System of Trade Preferences among Developing Countries, Group of Five Edit
Dem name afterCaesalpinia echinata Edit
Official languagePortuguese Edit
AnthemBrazilian National Anthem Edit
Cultureculture of Brazil Edit
MottoOrder and Progress Edit
ContinentSouth America Edit
CountryBrazil Edit
CapitalBrasília Edit
Located in or next to body of waterAtlantic Ocean, Amazon, Paraná River, São Francisco River Edit
Located in/on physical featureSouth American Plate Edit
Coordinate location14°0′0″S 53°0′0″W Edit
Coordinates of easternmost point7°9′20″S 34°47′35″W Edit
Coordinates of northernmost point5°16′12″N 60°12′15″W Edit
Coordinates of southernmost point33°45′0″S 53°23′25″W Edit
Coordinates of westernmost point7°32′5″S 73°58′58″W Edit
Highest pointPico da Neblina Edit
Lowest pointAtlantic Ocean Edit
Government ein basic formfederal republic, representative democracy, presidential system Edit
Office held by head of statePresident of Brazil Edit
State ein headLuiz Inácio Lula da Silva Edit
Office head of government holdPresident of Brazil Edit
Government ein headLuiz Inácio Lula da Silva Edit
Has cabinetcabinet of Brazil Edit
Executive bodyFederal Government of Brazil Edit
Legislative bodyNational Congress of Brazil Edit
Highest judicial authoritySupreme Federal Court Edit
Central bankCentral Bank of Brazil Edit
CurrencyBrazilian real Edit
Driving sideright Edit
Electrical plug typeEuroplug, IEC 60906-1 Edit
Dey replaceEmpire of Brazil, Republic of the United States of Brazil, Colonial Brazil Edit
Significant eventIndependence of Brazil Edit
Studied byBrazilian studies Edit
Discoverer or inventorPedro Álvares Cabral Edit
Time of discovery anaa invention22 April 1500 Edit
Dema official websitehttps://www.gov.br Edit
Described at URLhttps://www.cia.gov/library/publications/resources/the-world-factbook/geos/br.html Edit
External data available at URLhttp://dados.gov.br Edit
HashtagBrazil, brazil Edit
Top-level Internet domain.br Edit
Main regulatory textConstitution of Brazil Edit
Flagflag of Brazil Edit
Coat of armsEmblem of Brazil Edit
Geography of topicgeography of Brazil Edit
Get characteristicfree country Edit
History of topichistory of Brazil Edit
Patron saintOur Lady of Aparecida Edit
‎most populous urban areaSão Paulo Edit
Open data portalDataViva Edit
Economy of topiceconomy of Brazil Edit
Demographics of topicdemographics of Brazil Edit
Mastodon instance URLhttps://mastodon.com.br, https://masto.donte.com.br Edit
Mobile country code724 Edit
Country calling code+55 Edit
Trunk prefixno value Edit
Emergency phone number190, 192, 193, 188 Edit
GS1 country code789-790 Edit
Licence plate codeBR Edit
Maritime identification digits710 Edit
Unicode character🇧🇷 Edit
Category for honorary citizens of entityQ8942509 Edit
Category for maps or plansCategory:Maps of Brazil Edit
‎Lemmy instance URLhttps://lemmy.eco.br/ Edit
Map
    • Brazil, officially de Federative Republic of Brazil, be de largest den easternmost country insyd South America. Ebe de world ein fifth-largest country by area den de seventh largest by population, plus over 212 million people. De country be a federation dem compose of 26 states den a Federal District, wich host de capital, Brasília. Ein most populous city be São Paulo, follow by Rio de Janeiro. Brazil get de most Portuguese speakers insyd de world wey ebe de country per insyd de Americas wer Portuguese be an official language.[1][2]
  • Brazil be a regional den middle power[3][4][5] den rising global power.[6][7][8][9] Ebe an emerging,[10][11] upper-middle income economy den newly industrialized country,[12] plus one of de 10 largest economies insyd de world insyd both nominal den PPP terms,[13] de largest economy insyd Latin America den de Southern Hemisphere, den de largest share of wealth insyd South America.Plus a complex den highly diversified economy, Brazil be one of de world ein major anaa primary exporters of various agricultural goods, mineral resources, den manufactured products. Secof ein rich culture den history, de country dey rank thirteenth insyd de world by number of UNESCO World Heritage Sites.[14] Brazil be a founding member of de United Nations, de G20, BRICS, G4, Mercosur, Organization of American States, Organization of Ibero-American States, den de Community of Portuguese Language Countries; e sanso be an observer state of de Arab League den a major non-NATO ally of de United States.[15][16]
  • Demographics
  • Urbanization
Largest urban agglomerations insyd Brazil

2017 Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics estimates

Rank Name State Pop. Rank Name State Pop.
1 São Paulo São Paulo 21,314,716 11 Belém Pará 2,157,180
2 Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro 12,389,775 12 Manaus Amazonas 2,130,264
3 Belo Horizonte Minas Gerais 5,142,260 13 Campinas São Paulo 2,105,600
4 Recife Pernambuco 4,021,641 14 Vitória Espírito Santo 1,837,047
5 Brasília Federal District 3,986,425 15 Baixada Santista São Paulo 1,702,343
6 Porto Alegre Rio Grande do Sul 3,894,232 16 São José dos Campos São Paulo 1,572,943
7 Salvador Bahia 3,863,154 17 São Luís Maranhão 1,421,569
8 Fortaleza Ceará 3,594,924 18 Natal Rio Grande do Norte 1,349,743
9 Curitiba Paraná 3,387,985 19 Maceió Alagoas 1,231,965
10 Goiânia Goiás 2,347,557 20 João Pessoa Paraíba 1,168,941

References

  1. ↑ Philander, S. George (2012). Encyclopedia of Global Warming and Climate Change, Second Edition. Vol. 1 (Second ed.). Los Angeles: Princeton University. p. 148. ISBN 978-1-4129-9261-9. OCLC 970592418. Archived from the original on 25 October 2023. Retrieved 16 June 2015.
  2. ↑ Vallance, Monique M. (2012). "Preface and Observations on Contemporary Brazil". In Crocitti, John J. (ed.). Brazil Today: An Encyclopedia of Life in the Republic. Contributing editor Monique M. Vallance. ABC-CLIO. p. xxiii. ISBN 978-0-313-34672-9. OCLC 787850982. Archived from the original on 25 October 2023. Retrieved 16 June 2015.
  3. ↑ M. Schaefer; J. Poffenbarger (2014). The Formation of the BRICS and its Implication for the United States: Emerging Together. Springer. p. 32. ISBN 978-1-137-38794-3. Archived from the original on 29 November 2023. Retrieved 17 November 2018.
  4. ↑ Sean W. Burges (2016). Latin America and the Shifting Sands of Globalization. Routledge. pp. 114–15. ISBN 978-1-317-69658-2. Archived from the original on 29 November 2023. Retrieved 2 May 2018.
  5. ↑ Gardini, Gian Luca (2016). "Brazil: What Rise of What Power?". Bulletin of Latin American Research. 35: 5–19. doi:10.1111/blar.12417. ISSN 0261-3050.
  6. ↑ Gratius, Susanne (April 2008). "The international arena and emerging powers: stabilising or destabilising forces?" (PDF). FRIDE. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 June 2016.
  7. ↑ Peter Collecott (29 October 2011). "Brazil's Quest for Superpower Status". The Diplomatic Courier. Archived from the original on 2 April 2019. Retrieved 10 August 2014.
  8. ↑ Clendenning, Alan (17 April 2008). "Booming Brazil could be world power soon". USA Today. The Associated Press. p. 2. Archived from the original on 20 August 2011. Retrieved 12 December 2008.
  9. ↑ Jorge Dominguez; Byung Kook Kim (2013). Between Compliance and Conflict: East Asia Latin America and the New Pax Americana. Center for International Affairs, Harvard University. pp. 98–99. ISBN 978-1-136-76983-2.
  10. ↑ "FTSE Country Classification" (PDF). FTSE Group. September 2018. Archived (PDF) from the original on 21 November 2018. Retrieved 20 November 2018.
  11. ↑ "Country and Lending Groups". World Bank. Archived from the original on 18 March 2011. Retrieved 5 March 2011. Uppermiddle Income defined as a per capita income between $3,976 – $12,275
  12. ↑ "World Economic Outlook Database, April 2019". IMF.org. International Monetary Fund. Archived from the original on 17 June 2019. Retrieved 29 September 2019.
  13. ↑ "CIA – The World Factbook – Country Comparisons – GDP (purchasing power parity)". Central Intelligence Agency. Archived from the original on 4 June 2011. Retrieved 25 January 2011.
  14. ↑ "UNESCO World Heritage Centre — World Heritage List". UNESCO. Archived from the original on 14 March 2021. Retrieved 25 May 2012.
  15. ↑ Vandiver, John (9 May 2019). "Trump bumps up Brazil to 'major non-NATO' ally". Stars and Stripes (in English). Archived from the original on 13 October 2019. Retrieved 2 April 2023.
  16. ↑ "Brazil must be a 'facilitator' in the Middle East, says VP". 14 August 2019. Archived from the original on 26 May 2023. Retrieved 26 May 2023.

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  • Alencastro Felipe, Luiz Felipe de. The Trade in the Living: The Formation of Brazil in the South Atlantic, Sixteenth to Seventeenth Centuries (SUNY Press, 2019)
  • Alves, Maria Helena Moreira (1985). State and Opposition in Military Brazil. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press.
  • Amann, Edmund (1990). The Illusion of Stability: The Brazilian Economy under Cardoso. World Development (pp. 1805–19).
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  • Fischer, Brodwyn; Grinberg, Keila, eds. (2023). The Boundaries of Freedom: Slavery, Abolition, and the Making of Modern Brazil. Afro-Latin America. Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781108917537. ISBN 9781009287968.
  • Leal, Victor Nunes (1977). Coronelismo: The Municipality and Representative Government in Brazil. Cambridge: CUP.
  • Levine, Robert M. Historical Dictionary of Brazil (2019)
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  • Martinez-Lara, Javier (1995). Building Democracy in Brazil: The Politics of Constitutional Change. Macmillan.
  • Prado Júnior, Caio (1967). The Colonial Background of Modern Brazil. Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press.
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