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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
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: $1.99 trillion (2008 est.)
$1.892 trillion (2007)
$1.795 trillion (2006)
note: data are in 2008 US dollars
GDP growth rate: 5.2% (2008 est.)
5.4% (2007 est.)
GDP per capita: $10,100 (2008 est.)
$9,800 (2007 est.)
$9,400 (2006 est.)
note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Inflation rate: 5.8% (2008 est.)
Currency: real (BRL)
Exchange rates: reals (BRL) per US dollar - 1.8644 (2008 est.), 1.85 (2007 est.), 2.1761 (2006), 2.4344 (2005), 2.9251 (2004)
People
Population: 198,739,269
note: Brazil conducted a census in August 2000, which reported a population of 169,872,855; that figure was about 3.8% lower than projections by the US Census Bureau, and is close to the implied underenumeration of 4.6% for the 1991 census (July 2009 est.)
Growth rate: 1.199% (2009 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 and most widely spoken language); note - less common languages include Spanish (border areas and schools), German, Italian, Japanese, English, and a large number of minor Amerindian languages
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.
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