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Brazil is the largest country in South America and the fifth largest country in the world!
It has a long coastal border with the Atlantic Ocean and borders with ten different countries!
ChallengeChallenge Can you find the names of all the countries Brazil shares a border with using an atlas?
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Fast facts:
Population: 196.6 million
Capital city: Brasilia
Largest city: São Paulo
Official language: Portuguese. Although there are about 180 indigenous languages!
Local money: Real
Main religion: Catholicism
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This is the flag of Brazil.
In the middle of the flag is a blue globe, with 27 stars.
Can you find out the meaning of the flag
and the words in the middle?
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Brazil is a very varied country. Its landscape varies from dense forests and jungles to huge cities. It has a greater variety of animals than most other countries in the world!
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Brazil is quite
a wealthy
country.
But the gap
between the
richest and the
poorest people
is one of the
biggest in the
world.
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About 40 million people live in
poverty.
That is about 1 in 5 people.
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17.5 million people live in Brazil's largest city,
São Paulo. It is a very crowded place to live!
There are 30,000 millionaires in São Paulo. But 3.5 million people live in poverty and
15,000 live on the streets.
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Many people live in
‘favelas’ (shanty
towns) or in run-
down blocks of flats.
CAFOD is helping
people to persuade the
government to provide
good-quality housing
and better access to
jobs, schools and
doctors.
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The Amazon is the largest river in the world and the Amazon
rainforest is the largest tropical forest in the world.
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The Amazon rainforest
is very important for
the health of the
whole planet.
Nearly 20% of the
Amazon has been lost
already. Climate
change and
deforestation (cutting
down trees) could mean
another 20% of the
forest may have
disappeared by 2035!
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People from indigenous
communities are some of the poorest
in Brazil.
Many indigenous people living in Brazil live in the Amazon region.
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The indigenous people who live in the forest have to move when the trees are cut down.
CAFOD is helping them to protect their land so that they can
support their families and provide food
and shelter for them.
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