Welcome
to Kids' Corner - Brazil
Brazil is famous for its soccer, its carnivals,
the Amazon River and the rainforest. It is an enormously varied country. In fact, Brazil is the 5th largest country in the
world, after Russia, Canada, the US, and China. With an area of 8.5 million square
kilometers (how many square miles?), Brazil is larger than the lower 48 US
states.
| The imaginary
line that divides the globe into two hemispheres - the equator
- crosses the country, but most
of its territory is in the southern hemisphere. |
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Brazil lies
on the eastern side of South America, and
is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean on the
east and the Andes Mountains on the
west. |
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Brazil has borders
with nearly all other South American countries, except two.
Can you name them?
The language
spoken in Brazil is Portuguese.
People living in the rest of South
America speak Spanish, except for those in three
countries: Guyana, Suriname, and
French
Guiana - they speak English, Dutch, and French,
respectively.
I suppose
that you are curious about how Brazil come
to speak Portuguese. Click here
to know.
Brazil is a
Republic along the same lines as the US, with
an Executive, Legislative, Judicial branches of government.
The President is elected directly by popular vote and voting
is obligatory. In 2002, 60 million Brazilians voted for
Luiz Inácio
Lula da Silva, the current president.
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Brazil has 26
states and one Federal District, where
Brasília, the capital is located.
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