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Brazil – largest country in both South America and Latin America. With a geographical area of 8.5 million km2, Brazil is also the largest country in the Southern Hemisphere and the world's fifth-largest country. With over 206 million people, Brazil is the seventh-most-populous country in the world. [1] [2] It is the largest Lusophone country in the world, and the only one in the Americas. [2]
Administrative divisions of Brazil
Flag | State | Abbreviation | Capital | Area (km2) | Area (sq mi) | Population (2014) | Density (per km2, 2014) | Density (per sq mi, 2014) | GDP (billion R$ and % total, 2012) | GDP per capita (R$, 2012) | HDI [3] (2021) | Literacy (2014) | Infant mortality (2014) | Life expectancy (years, 2014) |
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Acre | AC | Rio Branco | 152,581.4 | 58,912 | 790,101 | 4.47 | 13 | 9.629 (0.2%) | 12,690 | 0.710 | 94% | 1.6% | 75.4 | |
Alagoas | AL | Maceió | 27,767.7 | 10,721 | 3,321,730 | 112.3 | 309 | 29.545 (0.7%) | 9,333 | 0.684 | 90% | 1.7% | 73.5 | |
Amapá | AP | Macapá | 142,814.6 | 55,151 | 750,912 | 4.69 | 13 | 10.420 (0.2%) | 14,914 | 0.688 | 99% | 1.6% | 75.4 | |
Amazonas | AM | Manaus | 1,570,745.7 | 606,470 | 3,873,743 | 2.23 | 6 | 64.120 (1.7%) | 17,855 | 0.700 | 96% | 1.9% | 73.7 | |
Bahia | BA | Salvador | 564,692.7 | 218,030 | 15,126,371 | 24.82 | 69 | 167.727 (3.8%) | 11,832 | 0.691 | 91% | 2.0% | 74.3 | |
Ceará | CE | Fortaleza | 148,825.6 | 57,462 | 8,842,791 | 56.8 | 153 | 90.132 (2.0%) | 10,473 | 0.734 | 93% | 1.65% | 74.9 | |
Distrito Federal | DF | Brasília | 5,822.1 | 2,249.9 | 2,852,372 | 444.66 | 1,268 | 171.236 (3.9%) | 64,653 | 0.814 | 98.8% | 0.65% | 79.8 | |
Espírito Santo | ES | Vitória | 46,077.5 | 17,791 | 3,885,049 | 76.25 | 218 | 107.329 (2.2%) | 29,996 | 0.771 | 99% | 0.48% | 80.1 | |
Goiás | GO | Goiânia | 340,086.7 | 131,310 | 6,523,222 | 17.65 | 49 | 123.926 (2.4%) | 20,134 | 0.737 | 97% | 0.9% | 75.9 | |
Maranhão | MA | São Luís | 331,983.3 | 128,180 | 6,850,884 | 19.81 | 53 | 58.920 (1.2%) | 8,760 | 0.676 | 90% | 1.9% | 72.5 | |
Mato Grosso | MT | Cuiabá | 903,357.9 | 348,790 | 3,224,357 | 3.36 | 9 | 80.830 (1.5%) | 25,945 | 0.736 | 94% | 1.3% | 74.6 | |
Mato Grosso do Sul | MS | Campo Grande | 357,125.0 | 137,890 | 2,619,657 | 6.86 | 19 | 54.471 (1.0%) | 21,744 | 0.742 | 97% | 0.7% | 76.1 | |
Minas Gerais | MG | Belo Horizonte | 586,528.3 | 226,460 | 20,734,097 | 33.41 | 91 | 403.551 (9.2%) | 20,324 | 0.774 | 98.6% | 0.61% | 78.7 | |
Pará | PA | Belém | 1,247,689.5 | 481,740 | 8,073,924 | 6.07 | 16 | 91.009 (1.9%) | 11,678 | 0.690 | 94% | 1.6% | 74.2 | |
Paraíba | PB | João Pessoa | 56,439.8 | 21,792 | 3,943,885 | 66.70 | 180 | 38.731 (0.8%) | 10,151 | 0.698 | 92% | 1.7% | 74.1 | |
Paraná | PR | Curitiba | 199,314.9 | 76,956 | 11,081,692 | 52.40 | 143 | 255.927 (5.8%) | 24,194 | 0.769 | 98% | 0.7% | 77.8 | |
Pernambuco | PE | Recife | 98,311.6 | 37,958 | 9,277,727 | 89.62 | 244 | 117.340 (2.3%) | 13,138 | 0.719 | 92% | 1.9% | 74.8 | |
Piauí | PI | Teresina | 251,529.2 | 97,726 | 3,194,178 | 12.4 | 32 | 25.721 (0.5%) | 8,137 | 0.690 | 90% | 1.8% | 72.7 | |
Rio de Janeiro | RJ | Rio de Janeiro | 43,696.1 | 16,871 | 16,461,173 | 365.23 | 975 | 504.221 (11.5%) | 31,064 | 0.762 | 99% | 1.3% | 77.1 | |
Rio Grande do Norte | RN | Natal | 52,796.8 | 20,385 | 3,408,510 | 59.99 | 167 | 39.544 (0.9%) | 12,249 | 0.728 | 95.1% | 1.38% | 76.7 | |
Rio Grande do Sul | RS | Porto Alegre | 281,748.5 | 108,780 | 11,207,274 | 37.96 | 103 | 277.658 (6.3%) | 25,779 | 0.771 | 99% | 0.4% | 79.3 | |
Rondônia | RO | Porto Velho | 237,576.2 | 91,729 | 1,748,531 | 6.58 | 19 | 29.362 (0.6%) | 13,075 | 0.700 | 94.6% | 1.85% | 73.7 | |
Roraima | RR | Boa Vista | 224,299.0 | 86,602 | 496,936 | 2.01 | 5 | 7.314 (0.2%) | 15,557 | 0.699 | 94.5% | 1.51% | 73.5 | |
Santa Catarina | SC | Florianópolis | 95,346.2 | 36,813 | 6,727,148 | 65.27 | 182 | 177.276 (4.0%) | 27,771 | 0.792 | 99% | 0.30% | 81 | |
São Paulo | SP | São Paulo | 248,209.4 | 95,834 | 44,035,304 | 166.23 | 459 | 1,408.904 (32.1%) | 33,624 | 0.806 | 99% | 0.45% | 79.8 | |
Sergipe | SE | Aracaju | 21,910.3 | 8,459.6 | 2,219,514 | 94.36 | 262 | 27.823 (0.6%) | 13,180 | 0.702 | 93% | 1.8% | 73.0 | |
Tocantins | TO | Palmas | 277,620.9 | 107,190 | 1,496,880 | 4.98 | 13 | 19.530 (0.4%) | 13,775 | 0.731 | 94% | 1.7% | 74.5 | |
Demographics of Brazil For demographics data, see chart presented under "States of Brazil", above.
The Federative Republic of Brazil is a member of: [4]
Local government in Brazil
Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest and easternmost country in South America and in Latin America. Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area and the seventh most populous. Its capital is Brasília, and its most populous city is São Paulo. The federation is composed of the union of the 26 states and the Federal District. It is the only country in the Americas to have Portuguese as an official language. Brazil is one of the most multicultural and ethnically diverse nations, due to over a century of mass immigration from around the world.
South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a considerably smaller portion in the Northern Hemisphere. It can also be described as the southern subregion of the Americas.
São Paulo is one of the 26 states of the Federative Republic of Brazil and is named after Saint Paul of Tarsus. It is located in the Southeast Region and is limited by the states of Minas Gerais to the north and northeast, Paraná to the south, Rio de Janeiro to the east and Mato Grosso do Sul to the west, in addition to the Atlantic Ocean to the southeast. It is divided into 645 municipalities and its total area is 248,219.481 square kilometres km², which is equivalent to 2.9% of Brazil's surface, being slightly larger than the United Kingdom. Its capital is the municipality of São Paulo.
Rio Grande do Sul is a state in the southern region of Brazil. It is the fifth-most populous state and the ninth-largest by area. Located in the southernmost part of the country, Rio Grande do Sul is bordered clockwise by Santa Catarina to the north and northeast, the Atlantic Ocean to the east, the Uruguayan departments of Rocha, Treinta y Tres, Cerro Largo, Rivera, and Artigas to the south and southwest, and the Argentine provinces of Corrientes and Misiones to the west and northwest. The capital and largest city is Porto Alegre. The state has the highest life expectancy in Brazil, and the crime rate is relatively low compared to the Brazilian national average. Despite the high standard of living, unemployment is still high in the state, as of 2017. The state has 5.4% of the Brazilian population and is responsible for 6.6% of the Brazilian GDP.
The Brazilian Highway System is a network of trunk roads administered by the Ministry of Transport of Brazil. It is constructed, managed and maintained by the National Department of Transport Infrastructure (DNIT), federal agency linked to the Ministry of Infrastructure, and the public works departments of state governments.
Brazil is divided into several types and levels of subdivisions.
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