Blog About Random Country #5 Brazil

I'm sure that MG17 is smiling now...

The word "Brazil" likely comes from the Portuguese word for brazilwood, a tree that once grew plentifully along the Brazilian coast. In Portuguese, brazilwood is called pau-brasil, with the word brasil commonly given the etymology "red like an ember", formed from brasa ("ember") and the suffix -il (from -iculum or -ilium).

The flag of Brazil has a green field with a yellow rhombus in the middle, and a blue disk in the center with 27 stars scattered throughout the disk and the country's motto depicted on a white band, sprawled across the blue disk. The green and yellow are inspired from the former imperial flag of Brazil, which was derived from two royal households: the green representing the House of Braganza, and the yellow for the House of Habsburg that his wife Maria Leopoldina came from. The blue disk and the stars are what make up the most fun part of this flag; each star represents one of the 27 states of Brazil. Furthermore, they are all separated into 9 different constellations that you can typically see in the Southern Hemisphere. Straddling across the blue disk is a banner with the country's motto "Ordem e Progresso", which means "Order and Progress".

Brazil is the biggest country in South America with 8.514.877 km ² (3.287.612 sq mi) area. It is also 5th biggest country in the planet. It has population about 210,147,125 according to 2019 estimates. Brazil has 10 borders with Uruguay, Argentina, Paraguay, Bolivia, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname and France (French Guiana). Brazil has border with every South American country except Chile and Ecuador. Brazil is a federation composed of 26 states, one federal district, and the 5570 municipalities. The capital is Brasília and 10 most populous cities are:

1) São Paulo

2) Rio de Janeiro,

3) Brasília

4) Salvador

5) Fortaleza

6) Belo Horizonte

7) Manaus

8) Curitiba

9) Recife

10) Goiânia

Brazil is home to world's second longest river, Amazon. Biggest lake is Lagoa dos Patos with 10.100 km ² (3.900 sq mi) surface area. And the highest point is Pico de Neblina at 2.995 m (9.827 ft) elevation.

Brazil is accidentally discovered by a Portuguese explorer on April 21, 1500 . A sailor named Pedro Alveras Cabral, who is trying to go to India , finds South America when he gets confused with the compass . Later, he seized the region that corresponds to the territory of today's Brazil for Portugal. In the next period, Spain seized the region and the region passed under Spanish rule. There are numerous wars between Portugal and Spain for the dominance of Brazil, and the region was constantly changed hands between the two countries, Brazil, which existed as a colonial state for a long time, is now governed by a federal republic . 

(Note: History of Brazil is not that short but I am trying to write short because it would be boring if I write long. It is same for every blog in this series.)

Ethnic Groups:

European (47.7%)

Religion:

Catholicism (64.6%)

Protestantism (22.2%)

None (8.0%)

Spiritism (2%)

Other religion (3.2%)

Official language is Portuguese and it is spoken by 98% of the population. Some significant languages are English, Spanish and Hunsrik language.

Coxinha: Chicken croquette shaped like a chicken thigh.

Rice and beans: An extremely popular dish, considered basic at table

Rocambole: roll cake, a thin mass wrapped with melted guava.

1) The world's best beach (according to TripAdvisor) is Baia do Sancho, in Brazil.

2) Brasilia, the country’s capital, took just 41 months to build, from 1956 to 1960.

3) Brazil's highest mountain was not discovered until 1950s.

4) Brasilia looks like an aeroplane from above.

5) Brazil has more than 4,000 airport, more than any other country other than the US.

6) According to a 2007 report, there are at least 70 uncontacted tribes in the Brazilian Amazon.

7) Fishermen in Laguna, in the southeast of Brazil, are able to use dolphins to help them catch dinner.

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