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Brazil

Standards

Road Traffic:right side

Electricity:

Voltage:110/220V*

Frequency:60 Hz

Plug types:, C,

Note:*127V found in states of Bahia, Paraná (including Curitiba), Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo and Minas Gerais (though 220V may be found in some hotels). Other areas are 220V only, with the exception of Fortaleza (240V).

TV Systems:

System:PAL M

DVD-Region: 4

Geography

Bordering countries:

Argentina 1,261 km Bolivia 3,423 km Colombia 1,644 km French Guiana 730.4 km Guyana 1,606 km Paraguay 1,365 km Peru 2,995 km Suriname 593 km Uruguay 1,068 km Venezuela 2,200 km

Location:

Eastern South America, bordering the Atlantic Ocean

Area:

total: 8,511,965 sq km

land: 8,456,510 sq km

water: 55,455 sq km

Climate:

mostly tropical, but temperate in south

Terrain:

mostly flat to rolling lowlands in north; some plains, hills, mountains, and narrow coastal belt

Economy

GDP: $1.616 trillion (2006 est.)

GDP growth rate: 3.1% (2006 est.)

GDP per capita: $8,600 (2006 est.)

Inflation rate: 4.2% (2006 est.)

Currency: real (BRL)

Exchange rates:

reals per US dollar - 2.19132 (2006), 2.4344 (2005), 2.9251 (2004), 3.0771 (2003), 2.9208 (2002)

People

Population:

note: Brazil conducted a census in August 2000, which reported a population of 169,799,170; that figure was about 3.3% lower than projections by the US Census Bureau, and is close to the implied underenumeration of 4.6% for the 1991 census; estimates for this country explicitly take into account the effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lower population and growth rates, and changes in the distribution of population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July 2006 est.)

Growth rate: 1.04% (2006 est.)

Religions:

Roman Catholic (nominal) 73.6%, Protestant 15.4%, Spiritualist 1.3%, Bantu/voodoo 0.3%, other 1.8%, unspecified 0.2%, none 7.4% (2000 census)

Languages:

Portuguese (official), Spanish, English, French

Government

Capital:

name: Brasilia

time difference: UTC-3 (2 hours ahead of Washington, DC during Standard Time)

daylight saving time: +1hr, begins third Sunday in October; ends third Sunday in February

note: Brazil is divided into four time zones, including one for the Fernando de Noronha islands

Independence:

7 September 1822 (from Portugal)

Note: Information on Brazil was mainly sourced from CIA's World Factbook and may represent an American point of view. To learn more about Brazil, please visit one of the links below.

CIA's World Factbook on Brazil

Wikipedia page on Brazil

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