Brazil March 21, 2020 Amazon , Amazon forest , Amazon River , Amazone , Americas , Atlantic , Atlantic Ocean , Bahia , Belem , Belo Horizonte , Brasil , Brasilia , Brazil , Community of Portuguese-speaking countries , Curitiba , El Salvador , Federative Republic of Brazil , forest , Fortaleza , Goiânia , jungle , Latin America , Lusophony , Manaus , Maranhão , Mato Grosso , Minas Gerais , Natal , Paraná , Porto Alegre , Portuguese , Portuguese colony , Portuguese language , Recife , Rio de Janeiro , Rio Grande , Rio Grande do Norte , Rio Grande do Sul , Salvador , São Luis , Sao Paulo , South America , South Atlantic Ocean , UNASUR Official name Federative Republic of Brazil Name in local language República Federativa do Brasil (pt) Continent Americas Subcontinent South America Population (ranking: 7e ) 210,301,591 inhabitants (2019) Population growth 0.84 % / year Area 8,515,759 km² Density 24.70 inhabitants / km² GDP (ranking: 9e )1,868.626 billions $USD (2018) GDP/capita (ranking ) 8,921 $USD (2018) GDP growth 1.10 % / year (2018) Life expectancy (ranking ) 75.72 years (2016) Birth rate 13.87 ‰ (2016) Fertility rate 1.77 children / woman (2018) Death rate (ranking ) 6.11 ‰ (2016) Infant mortality rate (ranking ) 12.35 ‰ (2018) Literacy rate 93.00 % (2017) Official languages Portuguese Currency Real (R$ BRL) HDI (ranking: 109e )0.761 / 1 (2018) EPI (ranking )60.70 (2018) Government Federal presidential constitutional republic Head of State President Jair Bolsonaro National Day 7 September (independence of 1822) ISO Codes BR, BRA Demonym Brazilian Tourists (ranking ) 6,589,000 people (2017)
Brazil is a federal state of South America. It is the largest country in the subcontinent, with almost half of its total area, and the fifth largest country in the world. It’s also one of the most populated countries of the world. It shares borders with virtually all the countries of the subcontinent: Guyana , Suriname , French Guiana , Venezuela and Colombia to the north, Peru , Bolivia and Paraguay to the west, Argentina and Uruguay to the south. It doesn’t have borders with Chile and Ecuador . Most of the population is concentrated in the south-east of the country, in the urban areas of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. The latter has merged with neighboring metropolitan areas, forming one of the largest urban areas in the world with more than 36 million inhabitants. Urban expansion is one of the main problems facing the Brazilian authorities, as it creates worrying poverty for the country’s future.
Rio de Janeiro. Photo: Jens Hausherr Amazon River, Brazil Urban areas (2018) Urban areas Population São Paulo 36,315,721 inhabitants Rio de Janeiro 12,699,743 inhabitants Belo Horizonte 5,916,189 inhabitants Brasília 4,560,505 inhabitants Porto Alegre 4,317,508 inhabitants Fortaleza 4,074,730 inhabitants Recife 4,054,866 inhabitants Salvador 3,899,533 inhabitants Curitiba 3,615,027 inhabitants Manaus 2,631,239 inhabitants Goiânia 2,518,775 inhabitants Belém 2,491,052 inhabitants Vitória 1,951,673 inhabitants São Luis 1,621,102 inhabitants Natal 1,587,055 inhabitants Joinville 1,400,128 inhabitants Maceió 1,330,291 inhabitants João Pessoa 1,266,463 inhabitants Teresina 1,222,940 inhabitants Florianópolis 1,189,947 inhabitants Londrina 1,101,595 inhabitants Campo Grande 1,069,420 inhabitants Aracaju 1,052,464 inhabitants Cuiabá 864,131 inhabitants
Administrative divisions States Population Area Acre 869,265 inhabitants 164,124 km² Alagoas 3,322,820 inhabitants 27,848 km² Amapá 829,494 inhabitants 142,829 km² Amazonas 4,080,611 inhabitants 1,559,147 km² Bahia 14,812,617 inhabitants 564,732 km² Ceará 9,075,649 inhabitants 148,888 km² Espírito Santo 3,972,388 inhabitants 46,087 km² Federal District 2,974,703 inhabitants 5,780 km² Goiás 6,921,161 inhabitants 340,106 km² Maranhão 7,035,055 inhabitants 331,937 km² Mato Grosso 3,441,998 inhabitants 903,202 km² Mato Grosso do Sul 2,748,023 inhabitants 357,146 km² Minas Gerais 21,040,662 inhabitants 586,521 km² Pará 8,513,497 inhabitants 1,247,955 km² Paraíba 3,996,496 inhabitants 56,468 km² Paraná 11,348,937 inhabitants 199,308 km² Pernambuco 9,496,294 inhabitants 98,076 km² Piauí 3,264,531 inhabitants 251,612 km² Rio de Janeiro 17,159,960 inhabitants 43,782 km² Rio Grande do Norte 3,479,010 inhabitants 52,811 km² Rio Grande do Sul 11,329,605 inhabitants 281,738 km² Rondônia 1,757,589 inhabitants 237,765 km² Roraima 576,568 inhabitants 224,301 km² Santa Catarina 7,075,494 inhabitants 95,738 km² São Paulo 45,538,936 inhabitants 248,220 km²
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