Brazil

Capital: Brasilia
Language: Portuguese
Population: 160 000 000
Religion: Roman Catholic

Industries: car, food, metallurgy, chemicals, textiles and tourism.

Agriculture products: cacao, coffee, fruits, wheat, beans, sugar.

Generally speaking:
• At the time of Portuguese arrival in Brazil (the landing of Pedro Álvares Cabral in 1500) it is estimated that on the territory lived few thousand tribes.
• During Napoleon’s invasion of Portugal, Rio de Janeiro (established in 1567) was the capital of the Portugal and Portuguese empire (from 1808 to 1815).
• The Amazon River (flows Through Peru, Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, Venezuela) is the largest river in the world by volume.