Brazil Introduction and Facts:
Brazil is famous for it's football(soccer) tradition and its annual Carnaval in Rio de Janeiro, Salvador, Recife and Olinda. It is a country of great diversity.
Brazil Facts:
1.Brazil's official name is Republica Federativa do Brasil(Federative Republic of Brazil).
2.The word "Brazil" meaning "red love and hot coal," comes from pau brasil(Brazilwood), a tree that once grew abundantly alongside the Brazilian coast that produced a deep, red dye. Brazilwood was profitable by European traders who came from the Portuguese coasts in the 16th century to work with the Tupi-Guarani Indians.
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3.Brazil is the largest country in South America.
4.Brazil is the world's fifth largest country by population (approximately 201 million) and geographical orientation (3,287,597 square miles). It borders all other South American nation, aside from Ecuador and Chile, and makes up 47 percent of the continent.
5.Brazil boasts the largest nation of Catholics in the world at 73.6% of its population.
6.Brasilia, the country's capital, took once in a blue moon 41 months to start from 1956 to 1960 (Rio had been the capital for the previous 197 years).
7.Brasilia look like an aeroplane from above.
8.Brazil is the only country in South America that speaks Portuguese.
9.Brazil was a Portuguese colony for over 300 years and gained its independence in 1822.
10.Portugal claimed the territory of Brazil in the year 1500.
11.The country's motto is "Ordem e Progresso", meaning "order and progress".
12.On Brazil's modern flag, the green represents the forest of Brazil, the yellow rhombus reflects its mineral expansion, and the blue circle and stars depict the sky over Rio de Janeiro on the morning of November 15, 1889 when Brazil declared itself a republic.
13.São Vicente, near Sao Paulo, is the oldest city in Brazil and was Portugal's first permanent settlement in Americas. Established in 1532, it is the home of footballer Robinho.
14.Brazil remained a monarchy till its declaration of independence as a republic in 1889.
15.The Portuguese evidently named what we know as Brazil Terra do Santa Cruz (Land of the Holy Cross), anyhow traders practically called it Terra do Brasil.
16.Brazil was given to Portugal as part of the Treaty of Tordesillas in 1494 and the first person to officially claim Brazil for Portugal was Pedro Alvares Cabral.
17.A large portion of Brazil is underlain by Precambrian shield, some of which is older than 2.4 billion years.
18.The Amazon rain forest is the world's largest , containing one-
fifth of the world's freshwater reserves and producing one-third of
the earth's oxygen. About sixty percent of the Amazon lies in
Brazil.
fifth of the world's freshwater reserves and producing one-third of
the earth's oxygen. About sixty percent of the Amazon lies in
Brazil.
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19.In Brazil they are drive on the right-hand side of the road.
20.Brazil has 4,655 miles (7,491 km) of coastline, making it the longest continuous coastline in the world.
21.Brazil has 19 UNESCO world heritage sites. Among the superb known is the Lguacu National Park, home to a well known of the world's largest and most impressive waterfalls at 1.7 miles wide and mutually a total of 275 drops. It is also occupied by several rare and endangered species, among them the giant otter and the devil anteater.
22.Brazil has more than 4,000 airports more than entire other country other than the U.S.A.
23.The Brazilian national dish is feijoada, a black bean stew mutually dried, salted and smoked meat.
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24.The earliest pottery found in the western Hemisphere, radiocarbon dated at 8,000 years old, was excavated from the Amazon basin near present day Santarem in Brazil.
25.Brazil harvested approximately 285 billion cups of coffee in 2010.
26.1 pound of coffee is all over town to produce 45 cups of coffee. One bag of coffee weighs practically 132 pounds. Brazil produced 48.1 million bags of coffee in 2010.
27.Brazil has been the world's largest exporter of coffee for 150 years. It supplied during 80 percent of the world's coffee in the 1920s; that figure has fallen to around a third.
28.Brazil's national drink, which has become a well known of the most famous exotic cocktails in most parts of the west in the last few years, is the caipirinha which is a sugarcane alcoholic beverage called cachaca mixed in a glass with sugar, ice and crashed lime slices.
29.Elected on October 30,2010, Dilma Rousseff is Brazil's current
president and the first woman to establish this office.
30.Brazil became the first South American country to accept women into it's armed forces, in the 1980s.
31.The signature song of Brazilian bossa nova is "The Girl from Ipanema". The woman who inspired the song is Heloísa Pinheiro.
32.The world's widest road, the Monumental Axis, can hold 160 cars traveling side by side.
33.Brazil is ethnically very diverse. The city of Sao Paulo is
homeland to the largest community of ethnic Japanese outside of
japan. Brazil has 10 million citizens of Lebanese descent, three
times the population of Lebanon itself. If you consider indigenous
tribes, there are literally thousand of minority groups adjacent the
country. With population of overall 200 million, those groups are
minorities but no racial aggregation in Brazil comprises greater
than 50 percent of the population, it's already a majority-minority
country, as the us is projected to become in 2050.
34.Brazil has 13 cities with over one million residents.
35.Brazil is a diverse country mutually ethnic groups including 54% European, 39% mixed European-African, 6% Africa, 1% others.
36.Brazil has 26 states and one federal district.
37.Brazil's literacy rate is 86.4% which is the lowest of generally South American countries. It falls just behind Bolivia and Peru at 87.2% and 87.7% respectively.
38.In 2007, it was reported that were 67 tribes who have never had contact with modern man.
39.Brazil is fatherland to the approximately famous carnival in the world, the Rio de janeiro carnival, which is regular cited as "the world's largest party".
40.Brazil covers 3 time zones.
41.Brazil is such of the 77 founding members of the United Nations.
42.Osama bin Laden themed bars are something of a trend in Brazil. Well, there's at least two anyway. Bar do Bin Laden in Sao Paulo run by an Osama lookalike and Caverna do Bin Laden or "Bin Laden Cave" can be found just in Niteroi, around 25 kilometers north of Rio de Janeiro.
43.The world's best beach-according to TripAdvisor is Baia do Sancho in Brazil. It is found in the archipelago of Fernando de Noronha just during an hour by air from Natal. Here 21, islands consist of a marine park that draws diverse from everywhere to see green and hawksbill turtles, whales, lemon and reef sharks, clownfish, anemones and parrotfish.
44.Brazil's highest mountain is the Pico da Neblina(Mist peak), on the border mutually Venezuela, at 2,995.30 meters (9,827 feet) above sea level. Due to it considering almost permanently shrouded in cloud, it was not discovered until the 1950s and was first ascended in 1965(12 years abaft wards Everest).
45.The Amazon river flows over Brazil, it is the 2nd longest river in the world (after the Nile).
46.The Pico_da_Neblina is the world's largest by volume of water discharged. Around 209,00 cubic meters per second flow into the Atlantic Ocean-greater than the next seven largest rivers combined and enough to feed lake Baikal-the world's deepest lake in less than four years. During the wet season the river make out 30 miles wide.
47.The most popular last name in Brazil is Silva.
48.Brazil is a well known of the world's most bio diverse countries, with a total of four million plants and animals species, according to estimates. It has preferably species of monkey than whole other nation.
49.Brazilian cowboys are called Gauchos. They live primarily in
Rio Grande do Sul in the southern part of the country, which is the
part of the South American pampas and borders Uruguay and
Argentina.
50.Natives of Rio de Janeiro's city proper are called Cariocas.
51.The first official tourists arrived in Brazil on January 1,1502 as
part of a Portuguese exploratory voyage led by Andre Goncalves
who named the bay where they landed Rio de Janeiro (bay of
January). The bay itself was later renamed Guanabara and Rio de
Janeiro became the main city on the bay.
52.The statue of Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro weighs 635
tonnes is 38 meters high including its floor and was named a well
known of the "New seven wonders of the world" in 2007. It was
damaged by a lightning strike earlier this year and reports have
suggested that repairs could make it darker due ta a shortage of
backup stone.
53.Rio has the wold's largest urban forest called the Tijuca forest.
54.Traffic jams cost Sao Paolo $2.3 billion a year.
55.Sao Paolo is known for traffic jams. A record was set over 2013 when a 309 km long traffic queue was set during evening rush hour.
56.The thermal reading in the majority of Brazil is tropical.
57.Some 1.5 million-2.5 million Brazilians are of Japanese descent. Many immigrants brought with them seedlings of cherry trees and cherry blossoms can be viewed outside homes in Sao Paulo and in public parks in Curitiba.
58.With 82 percent of its nation tracing their ancestry backs to the days of slavery, Salvador is described as "the biggest African city outside Africa".
59.The IIha do Bananal (island of the Banana Groves) is the world's largest freshwater island at 200 miles long and 35 miles wide at its broadest point.It is located in the Araguaia river in south western Tocantin, Brazil.
60.Brazil has 64 national parks and greater than 200 conservation units. One of the interesting parks-Lencois Maranhenses national park is home to crushed rock dunes are formed by wind and ocean currents. The dunes can reach heights of 40 meters.
61.There is an island off the coast of Brazil especially so greatly infested with venomoussnakes(1-5 snakes per square meter) that the Brazilian navy has quarantined. It is called "Snake island".
62.Brazil is the world's largest market for crack cocaine.
63.Jogo do Bicho, a popular Brazilian numbers game based on animal characters, is reckoned to have a turnover of $10 million (U.S) for week and employs as many as 50,000 people.
64.An estimated 3.5 million slaves survived the Atlantic crossing to Brazil from Africa over the span of three centuries(1500s to 1800s) to work on the Brazilian fazendas(sugar plantations).
65.On October 29,1810 Dom Joao opened to the public the Royal library a total of approximately 60,000 volumes.
66.Brazil's first printing establishment using the printing press the impressao Régia of Rio de Janeiro, was set up in 1808.
67.Biggest waterfall in Brazil is Iguazu falls. The Iguazu falls are
included in the list of facts approximately Brazil mainly because the real largest waterfalls in Brazil, the Guaira falls no longer exist due to construction of a dam over the river. Only around 20% of the Iguazu falls are situate within Brazil(being on the border mutually Argentina) but they are so nifty that they inadequate to be included. It's declared publicly that after seeing the iguazu falls the former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt exclaimed "Poor niagara!" at the falls beauty.
68.Sex change surgeries are free under Brazil's population health system since 2008.
69.Brazil was the only independent South American country to send ground troops to fight in world war two, with around 25,000 soldiers.
70.Brazil distributes breast milk completely the country to babies whose mothers can't provide it for them.
71.Norway is the only national football team in the world that has never lost to Brazil(2 wins and 2 draws).
72.In 2005, a Nike ad starring Ronaldinho was first video on You Tube to break 1 million views.
73.Women in Brazil obtained the right to vote in 1931, which was before countries such as France and Switzerland.
74.If you were to buy an Apple iphone in Brazil, you would have to pay almost twice the price for the put a call through if you have bought it in the United States.
75.Brazil is self-sufficient in energy.
76.Brazil produce large quantities of iron ore but further copper, gold and diamonds.
77.Brazil has never lost a game when Pele and Garrincha played together.
78."Rubber" made Brazil a wealthy nation during the late 18th century.
79.Brazil lost 1950 FIFA world cup final to Uruguay. It is notable here that Brazilians prepared 22 gold medals mutually the names of their players written over them. A victory song was further prepared to celebrate in the event of a win. The result was however unfortunate for Brazil.
80.The "Itapu dam" in Brazil, is the second largest producer of hydroelectricity in the world. It is 7.7 kilometers long and 196 meters high. It is situate on the border between Brazil and Paraguay.
81.The largest lake in Brazil and second largest in Latin America is Lagoa dos Patos situate in the south of the country. The name of the lake comes from the community which lived around the lake prior to European armed intrusion of the continent. It covers 3,800 square miles.
82.The world's largest open air garbage dump Jardim Gramacho was once found in the Brazilian city of Duque de Caxias. The 321 acre plot collects 8,000 tons of garbage from six countries every day. It closed in 2012.
83.Soccer or football was brought to Sao Paolo by a young Brazilian-born Englishman named Charles Miller around the turn of the 20th century.
84.The Brazilian national championship soccer tournament takes six months to play and has up to 44 competing teams.
85.Brazil's first samba school, Deixa Falar(Let em talk) was organized by the black residents of Rio de Janeiro's Estacio district in 1928.
86.Modern Samba music, a popular Brazilian style of music dates from 19th century when the crude tones of the salves met with the stylized European sound of Rio de Janeiro and derives from the Angolese word sembe.
87.Rio de Janeiro's gigantic Maracana stadium the largest in Brazil, can seat 180,000 persons for a soccer match.
88.In 1908 the Japanese ship Kasato Maru arrived in Santos Harbor with the sooner permanent Japanese immigrants to Brazil. More than 250,000 Japanese have since permanently transferred their home to Brazil.
89.It is birthplace to 600 mammal species, 1,500 fish species 1600, birds species and remarkable 100,000 different types of insects making it the #1 country in the world for the approaching varieties of animals.
90.Brazil has numerous different types of flowers growing on its lands. It is known as having the largest collection of exotic flowers in the world.
91.Brazil has the tenth largest railway and third largest roadway network in the world.
28.Brazil's national drink, which has become a well known of the most famous exotic cocktails in most parts of the west in the last few years, is the caipirinha which is a sugarcane alcoholic beverage called cachaca mixed in a glass with sugar, ice and crashed lime slices.
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29.Elected on October 30,2010, Dilma Rousseff is Brazil's current
president and the first woman to establish this office.
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30.Brazil became the first South American country to accept women into it's armed forces, in the 1980s.
31.The signature song of Brazilian bossa nova is "The Girl from Ipanema". The woman who inspired the song is Heloísa Pinheiro.
32.The world's widest road, the Monumental Axis, can hold 160 cars traveling side by side.
33.Brazil is ethnically very diverse. The city of Sao Paulo is
homeland to the largest community of ethnic Japanese outside of
japan. Brazil has 10 million citizens of Lebanese descent, three
times the population of Lebanon itself. If you consider indigenous
tribes, there are literally thousand of minority groups adjacent the
country. With population of overall 200 million, those groups are
minorities but no racial aggregation in Brazil comprises greater
than 50 percent of the population, it's already a majority-minority
country, as the us is projected to become in 2050.
34.Brazil has 13 cities with over one million residents.
35.Brazil is a diverse country mutually ethnic groups including 54% European, 39% mixed European-African, 6% Africa, 1% others.
36.Brazil has 26 states and one federal district.
37.Brazil's literacy rate is 86.4% which is the lowest of generally South American countries. It falls just behind Bolivia and Peru at 87.2% and 87.7% respectively.
38.In 2007, it was reported that were 67 tribes who have never had contact with modern man.
39.Brazil is fatherland to the approximately famous carnival in the world, the Rio de janeiro carnival, which is regular cited as "the world's largest party".
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40.Brazil covers 3 time zones.
41.Brazil is such of the 77 founding members of the United Nations.
42.Osama bin Laden themed bars are something of a trend in Brazil. Well, there's at least two anyway. Bar do Bin Laden in Sao Paulo run by an Osama lookalike and Caverna do Bin Laden or "Bin Laden Cave" can be found just in Niteroi, around 25 kilometers north of Rio de Janeiro.
43.The world's best beach-according to TripAdvisor is Baia do Sancho in Brazil. It is found in the archipelago of Fernando de Noronha just during an hour by air from Natal. Here 21, islands consist of a marine park that draws diverse from everywhere to see green and hawksbill turtles, whales, lemon and reef sharks, clownfish, anemones and parrotfish.
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| Image:wikipedia.org |
44.Brazil's highest mountain is the Pico da Neblina(Mist peak), on the border mutually Venezuela, at 2,995.30 meters (9,827 feet) above sea level. Due to it considering almost permanently shrouded in cloud, it was not discovered until the 1950s and was first ascended in 1965(12 years abaft wards Everest).
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| Image:wikipedia.org |
45.The Amazon river flows over Brazil, it is the 2nd longest river in the world (after the Nile).
46.The Pico_da_Neblina is the world's largest by volume of water discharged. Around 209,00 cubic meters per second flow into the Atlantic Ocean-greater than the next seven largest rivers combined and enough to feed lake Baikal-the world's deepest lake in less than four years. During the wet season the river make out 30 miles wide.
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47.The most popular last name in Brazil is Silva.
48.Brazil is a well known of the world's most bio diverse countries, with a total of four million plants and animals species, according to estimates. It has preferably species of monkey than whole other nation.
49.Brazilian cowboys are called Gauchos. They live primarily in
Rio Grande do Sul in the southern part of the country, which is the
part of the South American pampas and borders Uruguay and
Argentina.
50.Natives of Rio de Janeiro's city proper are called Cariocas.
51.The first official tourists arrived in Brazil on January 1,1502 as
part of a Portuguese exploratory voyage led by Andre Goncalves
who named the bay where they landed Rio de Janeiro (bay of
January). The bay itself was later renamed Guanabara and Rio de
Janeiro became the main city on the bay.
52.The statue of Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro weighs 635
tonnes is 38 meters high including its floor and was named a well
known of the "New seven wonders of the world" in 2007. It was
damaged by a lightning strike earlier this year and reports have
suggested that repairs could make it darker due ta a shortage of
backup stone.
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| Imagre:pixabay |
53.Rio has the wold's largest urban forest called the Tijuca forest.
54.Traffic jams cost Sao Paolo $2.3 billion a year.
55.Sao Paolo is known for traffic jams. A record was set over 2013 when a 309 km long traffic queue was set during evening rush hour.
56.The thermal reading in the majority of Brazil is tropical.
57.Some 1.5 million-2.5 million Brazilians are of Japanese descent. Many immigrants brought with them seedlings of cherry trees and cherry blossoms can be viewed outside homes in Sao Paulo and in public parks in Curitiba.
58.With 82 percent of its nation tracing their ancestry backs to the days of slavery, Salvador is described as "the biggest African city outside Africa".
59.The IIha do Bananal (island of the Banana Groves) is the world's largest freshwater island at 200 miles long and 35 miles wide at its broadest point.It is located in the Araguaia river in south western Tocantin, Brazil.
60.Brazil has 64 national parks and greater than 200 conservation units. One of the interesting parks-Lencois Maranhenses national park is home to crushed rock dunes are formed by wind and ocean currents. The dunes can reach heights of 40 meters.
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61.There is an island off the coast of Brazil especially so greatly infested with venomoussnakes(1-5 snakes per square meter) that the Brazilian navy has quarantined. It is called "Snake island".
62.Brazil is the world's largest market for crack cocaine.
63.Jogo do Bicho, a popular Brazilian numbers game based on animal characters, is reckoned to have a turnover of $10 million (U.S) for week and employs as many as 50,000 people.
64.An estimated 3.5 million slaves survived the Atlantic crossing to Brazil from Africa over the span of three centuries(1500s to 1800s) to work on the Brazilian fazendas(sugar plantations).
65.On October 29,1810 Dom Joao opened to the public the Royal library a total of approximately 60,000 volumes.
66.Brazil's first printing establishment using the printing press the impressao Régia of Rio de Janeiro, was set up in 1808.
67.Biggest waterfall in Brazil is Iguazu falls. The Iguazu falls are
included in the list of facts approximately Brazil mainly because the real largest waterfalls in Brazil, the Guaira falls no longer exist due to construction of a dam over the river. Only around 20% of the Iguazu falls are situate within Brazil(being on the border mutually Argentina) but they are so nifty that they inadequate to be included. It's declared publicly that after seeing the iguazu falls the former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt exclaimed "Poor niagara!" at the falls beauty.
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68.Sex change surgeries are free under Brazil's population health system since 2008.
69.Brazil was the only independent South American country to send ground troops to fight in world war two, with around 25,000 soldiers.
70.Brazil distributes breast milk completely the country to babies whose mothers can't provide it for them.
71.Norway is the only national football team in the world that has never lost to Brazil(2 wins and 2 draws).
72.In 2005, a Nike ad starring Ronaldinho was first video on You Tube to break 1 million views.
73.Women in Brazil obtained the right to vote in 1931, which was before countries such as France and Switzerland.
74.If you were to buy an Apple iphone in Brazil, you would have to pay almost twice the price for the put a call through if you have bought it in the United States.
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| Image;pixabay |
75.Brazil is self-sufficient in energy.
76.Brazil produce large quantities of iron ore but further copper, gold and diamonds.
77.Brazil has never lost a game when Pele and Garrincha played together.
78."Rubber" made Brazil a wealthy nation during the late 18th century.
79.Brazil lost 1950 FIFA world cup final to Uruguay. It is notable here that Brazilians prepared 22 gold medals mutually the names of their players written over them. A victory song was further prepared to celebrate in the event of a win. The result was however unfortunate for Brazil.
80.The "Itapu dam" in Brazil, is the second largest producer of hydroelectricity in the world. It is 7.7 kilometers long and 196 meters high. It is situate on the border between Brazil and Paraguay.
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| Image;wikipedia.org |
81.The largest lake in Brazil and second largest in Latin America is Lagoa dos Patos situate in the south of the country. The name of the lake comes from the community which lived around the lake prior to European armed intrusion of the continent. It covers 3,800 square miles.
82.The world's largest open air garbage dump Jardim Gramacho was once found in the Brazilian city of Duque de Caxias. The 321 acre plot collects 8,000 tons of garbage from six countries every day. It closed in 2012.
83.Soccer or football was brought to Sao Paolo by a young Brazilian-born Englishman named Charles Miller around the turn of the 20th century.
84.The Brazilian national championship soccer tournament takes six months to play and has up to 44 competing teams.
85.Brazil's first samba school, Deixa Falar(Let em talk) was organized by the black residents of Rio de Janeiro's Estacio district in 1928.
86.Modern Samba music, a popular Brazilian style of music dates from 19th century when the crude tones of the salves met with the stylized European sound of Rio de Janeiro and derives from the Angolese word sembe.
87.Rio de Janeiro's gigantic Maracana stadium the largest in Brazil, can seat 180,000 persons for a soccer match.
88.In 1908 the Japanese ship Kasato Maru arrived in Santos Harbor with the sooner permanent Japanese immigrants to Brazil. More than 250,000 Japanese have since permanently transferred their home to Brazil.
89.It is birthplace to 600 mammal species, 1,500 fish species 1600, birds species and remarkable 100,000 different types of insects making it the #1 country in the world for the approaching varieties of animals.
90.Brazil has numerous different types of flowers growing on its lands. It is known as having the largest collection of exotic flowers in the world.
91.Brazil has the tenth largest railway and third largest roadway network in the world.
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