Brazil

Brazil's system of government is a presidential federal republic. The president as head of government and head of state is elected by popular vote. The National Congress [Congresso Nacional do Brasil] is the legislative branch, and the Supreme Federal Court [Supremo Tribunal Federal] is the judicial branch.

The main industries are textiles, tobacco, automobiles, ships, airplanes, food and chemistry. São Paulo, the industrial state, with plants that produce about a third of total industries in Brazil, the cities of Rio de Janeiro (RJ), Belo Horizonte (MG), Porto Alegre (RS) and Fortaleza (CE) also large industrial centers

Brazilians live in buildings like skyscrapers etc as of in the cities as for the outer parts they live in houses and farther out and into the mountains they live in brick hand made houses for the very poor and made by them unopperated by the government.

The Atlantic is the only ocean that bounds Brazil. Well to the south is the merging of the Atlantic with Antarctica's Southern Ocean. Well to the north is the encircling of the Sargasso Sea by the Atlantic. And well to the northeast is the Caribbean Sea.

Typically Brazilian men and women dress similarly to people in most warm climates (think Miami) which can range from traditional casual wear, e.g. light colors, jeans, cotton t-shirts, skirts, sun dresses, etc. during the day and evening. Women will dress casual as well but may also wear something slightly more hip-elegant, depending on the occasion.

In today's world one should only use their common sense and dress appropriately in the city. In the suburbs, frankly, you can wear whatever the hell you feel comfortable in.

A good rule of thumb to follow is that you can never overdress - except at the beach.

About 82.0% of Brazilians live in an urban area

Yes. Portuguese is the main spoken and the official, language of Brazil. For the country is a former colony of Portugal. In fact, its first known discovery by Europeans was on April 21, 1500. In that year, Pedro Alvares de Cabral [1467/1468/1469? - c. 1520] was charged by King Manuel I [May 31, 1469-December 13, 1521] with leading an expedition around southernmost Africa, and on through the Indian Ocean to India. Cabral wanted to avoid the calm of the coast off the Gulf of Guinea. And so he had his fleet of 13 ships sail more southwestwardly through the Atlantic. But the course was so far to the southwest that the expedition ended up off the coast of the subsequent Brazil. And so throughout the 16th century, the Portuguese colonized Brazil while the rest of South America was settled under the commands and direction of the Spanish monarchy and its Spanish conquerors. But this division of South America into settlement by Spain, and settlement by Portugal, was not accidental. In fact, it was regulated by treaty. For the Treaty of Tordesillas, of 1497, divided the non-Christian world into zones of influence for Spain, and zones for Portugal. The line of division ran in such a way that Brazil could be claimed by Portugal, and the rest of South America by Spain. And Portuguese colonial control lasted three centuries. On September 7, 1822, Brazil declared independence from Portugal. Portugal didn't make the independence official until almost three years later, on August 29, 1825. But three centuries of colonial rule had defined the direction of the Brazilian economy, and the choice of the country's language of communications.

In 1960, Brazil's capital was moved from Rio de Janeiro to Brasília. It took 41 months to build Brasília, from 1956 to 1960. Brasília officially was inaugurated as the capital on April 21, 1960.

The Amazon basin begins with streams in the Andes Mountains in Peru and flows into the Atlantic Ocean about 4000 miles away. Parts of the Amazon basin also include grassland and savannah landscapes.

Brazil relative location is southern hemisphere west of Africa

There is some confusion over the terms relative and absolute.
If you ask for a relative location you need to state what you want it relative to. For instance Brazil is a very large country in South America, as the previous answerer states, it is west relative to Africa. However it is south relative to North America.

Absolute location is also something of a misnomer as this is usually asking for a location in terms of Latitude and Longitude. But once again the co-ordinates are relative to a point in the Atlantic Ocean where the Prime Meridian and the Equator meet.

Because of the size of Brazil the best indication is that is stretches from 5 degrees N to 35 degrees S and 35 degrees W to 74 degrees W

No it is not, it is an industrialized nation, although there is a lot of poverty, then again, there is much poverty in the USA as well and that is supposed to be the richest country on the planet.

Brazil shares borders with these ten countries: * Argentina * Bolivia * Colombia * French Guiana * Guyana * Paraguay * Peru * Suriname * Uruguay * Venezuela.
To the north is Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana. To the west is Bolivia and Peru. Finally, to the south is Paraguay, Argentina, and Uruguay. Chile is the only country that does not border Brazil in South America.

Christ the Redeemer was inaugurated on October 12, 1931, but his story started much earlier. In the mid 19th century the Catholic Church has wanted to do a large religious monument in Rio The centenary celebrations of Independence gave the final impetus. But in 1922, was only possible to lay the foundation stone of the statue. Even with access to a highway and an electrified railway, building a giant sculpture of a mountain peak located 710 meters above sea level was extremely difficult, taking five years to complete. Construction began in 1926, three years after being chosen a design engineer Heitor da Silva Costa. The artist Carlos Oswald made the final design of the statue, which was made by the French sculptor Paul Landowski of Polish origin.

Landowski's heirs claimed copyright because the sculpture, but had never recognized it. The rights to the image of Christ belong to the Archbishop of Rio Mitra The sculpture is listed by the historic site since 1937. Made of soapstone and art deco style, the Christ is 38 meters tall, eight in the pedestal and 3.75 m in the head. The distance between the tips of both hands is 30 meters. Each hand measures 3.2 meters and weighs eight tons. The total weight of the monument is 1,145 tons. In the last reform in 2003, was put escalators to reach the statue

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Brazil is one of the best place for traveling, There are so many places available in Brazil but Iguazu Falls is the most famous place., It is a world's heritage site which has rated by National Geographic as the World's best Waterfall. It is located on the border between Argentia and Brazil.

Pedro Álvares Cabral, a Portuguese explorer, landed in Brazil on April 22, 1500. He is generally considered to have been the first European to see Brazil, although that is not certain. Most of the European immigrants after that were from Portugal, beginning in about 1530. The first permanent Portuguese settlement was founded at Sao Vicente, in the state of Sao Paulo, in 1532.

The land mass of Brazil is 8, 511, 965 square kilometres.

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Trinidad carnival season officially begins on Boxing Day (the day after Christmas) and continues until the mid hours of Ash Wednesday. Activities such as band launchings and media launches for Carnival bands start as early as July.

No, it is north of Brazil in North America. Brazil is in South America.