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Brazil
South America’s largest country and the fifth largest country in the world, Brazil has a total land area of 3,287,597 sq mi and has a total population of approximately 191,241,714. Brazil was a former Portuguese colony and gained in independence in 1822.
3,034 Questions
What is the distance from Perth Scotland to Brazilia Brazil?
The distance from Perth, Scotland, to Brasilia, Brazil, is 5,595 air miles. That equals 9,004 kilometers or 4,862 nautical miles.
What is the name of Brazil money?
The real is the present-day currency of Brazil. Its sign is R$ and its ISO code is BRL. It is subdivided into 100 centavos ("hundredths").
The modern real was introduced in 1994 as part of the Plano Real
How do you pronounce Sao Luis?
The name Sao Luis is Portuguese. The closest pronunciation for an English speaker is similar to how it is spelled, which would be "sow-lu-eese. "
10 degrees 30 minutes south 105 degrees 40 minutes west. Does anyone know this location?
I think it is safe to say that nobody knows it. It is a location in the Pacific Ocean, about 1200 miles West of South America.
How was Brazil's path to independence different from that of the rest of south America?
there was no fighting
From a very common wood widely explored by the Portuguese colonyzer in the XIV century called "PAU BRASIL". "pau" being the portuguese for "stick", explained by it's thin trunk, and "brasil" coming from "brasa" meaning "cinder" explained by it's red color.
This wood was explored to make an exotic live red fabric painting.
Which country colonized Brazil in 1500?
The Portuguese. Spain colonized the rest of South America, other than Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana. They gained what is roughly Brazil today from the Treaty of Tordesilla's with Spain, during the Iberian Union.
Brazilians find its offensive when people speak to them in?
No, you must consider that people worldwide, has different reactions of what is offensive. If I ask you the same question regarding to the US people, could you give me an answer ? Usually, what is offensive for a person can not affect other one. This question cannot be done on this way. It appears that all the brazilian people would get offended when somebody say a certain sentence or word.
In other words, what is offensive to most of the brazilian people certainly would be offensive on the whole world. Take a look on a you tube video : "Everything is offensive. "
Are most of the big cities in Brazil on the west coast?
Brazil dowsn't have a wast coast. The coast is on the east, at the Atlantic Ocean. The west side of Brazil borders other countries, not an ocean.
What are some of the darker aspects of life in Brazil today?
My girlfriend's parents are Italians but she was born here and she is very very pretty and I love her so much
