Brazilian people

Brazlians are the friendly talkative people who live in Brazil, in South America. They love to play soccer (football), to dance and to party. They also work hard and they are also very creative.

Brazil has a population of over 180 million people and it is the fifth most populated country in the world! After China, India, the US and Indonesia. The rate at which the population is increasing is slowing down.

Most of Brazil is in the Southern Hemisphere, where the seasons are the opposite to the Northern Hemisphere. The Brazilian summer goes from (roughly) January to March, followed by autumn (May - June), winter (July - September) and spring (October - December).

The weather is nearly always warm across the whole country when compared with that in UK and so the temperature and the amount of rain that falls affects the trees and plants that grow across the country. Most of north and central Brazil has the same weather all year round, unlike the four seasons in the UK.

Sometimes the weather is similar to our country – wet and misty!

Food

There are 437,490 square miles of farmable land in Brazil, and that’s without counting one single inch of the 350 million of the Amazon forest.

Brazil is the world’s largest coffee, sugar, alcohol producer, second in soybean and the third largest fruit producer.

Food Economy

Meat

Brazil is the world’s second largest producer of beef (6.6 million tons/year), and has the largest commercial herd, numbering some 170 million heads. It is the second largest world producer of poultry, with 5.5 million tons/year and figures among the ten largest in the swine segment, with 1.9 million tons/year.

The production of sheep,

goats, and buffaloes is

equally significant.

• Brazil is the largest country in South America.

• The name Brazil comes from a tree named brazilwood.

• It is called Brasil in Portuguese, the official language spoken in Brazil.

• Brazil is the only country in South America that speaks Portuguese.

• Portugal claimed the land of Brazil in the year 1500. Independence was declared in 1822.

• Brazil is the 5th largest country in the world by both land area and population.

• The population in 2012 was around 194 million people.

• The capital city is Brasilia, while the largest city is Sao Paulo.

• Other major cities include Rio de Janeiro, Salvador and Fortaleza.

• In Brazil they drive on the right-hand side of the road.

• Brazil has a large coastline on the eastern side of South America, stretching 7491 kilometres (4655 miles) in length.

Football is the most popular sport in Brazil. The Brazilian national am has won the FIFA World Cup tournament a record five times, in 1958, 1962, 1970, 1994 and 2002, and is the only team to succeed in qualifying for every World Cup competition ever held. It is among the favorites to win the trophy every time the competition is scheduled. After Brfootball teazil won its 3rd World Cup in 1970, they were awarded the Jules Rimet Trophy permanently. But 365 days before World Cup 2014 begins, Brazil's rank dropped to 22nd, an all-time-low position.