Its Amazon basin includes a vast tropical forest, home to diverse wildlife, a variety of ecological systems, and extensive natural resources spanning numerous protected habitats. It borders all other countries and territories in South America except Ecuador and Chile and covers roughly half of the continent's land area. It is one of the most multicultural and ethnically diverse nations, due to over a century of mass immigration from around the world, and the most populous Roman Catholic-majority country.īounded by the Atlantic Ocean on the east, Brazil has a coastline of 7,491 kilometers (4,655 mi). It is the only country in the Americas to have Portuguese as an official language. The federation is composed of the union of the 26 states and the Federal District.
Its capital is Brasília, and its most populous city is São Paulo. At 8.5 million square kilometers (3,300,000 sq mi) and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area and the seventh most populous. Brazil ( Portuguese: Brasil Brazilian Portuguese: ( listen)), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: República Federativa do Brasil), is the largest country in South America and in Latin America.
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