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=Brazil=

__Fast facts__
__**Area:**__ 8,511,965 sq km __**Population:**__ 190,010,647 people __**Capital city:**__ Brasilia __**Language:**__ Portuguese, Spanish, English and French __**Head of Country:**__ Priesident Luis Inacio Lula Da Silva
 * __Country:__** Brazil
 * __Currency:__** The Real (Reais)

===__Location:__ Brazil is located in South America. Brazils coordinates are 10° 0' South and 55° 0' West. Brazil is bordering the North Atlantic Ocean and the South Atlantic Ocean. Brazils teritory is 4,395 kilometers from north to south.**The total area of Brazil is 16 885 kms. Brazil is located Eastern South America bordering the Atlantic Ocean. Takeing up nearly half of South America its bordering countries are Ecuador and Chile.**===

===__Geographical Features:__ Brazil’s landscape is low surrounded by plains. The Amazon rainforest is the largest in the world covering 3.3 million square kilometres. Two million species of animals and birds and indigenous communities. If the destruction of the forest is not moved it will all have disappeared by the year 2020.===

__Climate__
===**As Brazil is so big covering almost half of South America there are big regional differences in climate and soil conditions. Most of Brazil has tropical or sub-tropical weather high temperatures and high rainfall but the North East has low risk of drought because it dosent have many foests. The weather adds to a unbalanced environment like in 1998’s drought the worst in living memory.**===

__Economy:__
===Brazil has one of the world's largest economies. Brazil's major industries are agricultural, mining, manufacturing, and service sectors. One fifth of the workers are involved in agriculture. The major commercial crops are coffee, citrus fruit , soybeans, wheat, rice, corn, sugarcane, cocoa, cotton, tobacco, and bananas. Cattle, pigs, and sheep. Timber is also important although much is illegally harvested.===

===__Government:__ Brazil is owend by the 1988 constitution. The president who is elected by popular vote is both head of state and head of government. There is a bicameral legislature with an upper Federal Senate and a lower Chamber of Deputies. The 81 senators are elected for eight years and the 513 deputies are elected for four years. The president may intervene in state affairs.The country has 26 states each state has its own governor and legislature. The main political parties are the Brazilian Democratic Movement party, the Liberal Front party, the Democratic Labor party, the Brazilian Social Democracy party and the Workers party.===

__History:__
===The Portuguese were the first European settlers to arrive in the area led by caption Pedro Cabral who began in 1500. The Portuguese found native Indians around seven million of them. Most tribes had with only a little agriculture villages often had as many as 5000 people. Cultural life was rich. The few traces of Brazil's Indian tribes tell little of their lifestyle unlike the evidence from other Andean tribes. Today less than 200,000 of Brazil's indigenous people survive most of which live in the jungle areas.===