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Brazil
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This article is about the country in South America. For other uses, see Brazil
(disambiguation).
Coordinates:  10°S 52°W

Federative Republic of Brazil

República Federativa do Brasil  (Portuguese)

Flag

Coat of arms

Motto: Ordem e Progresso (Portuguese)
"Order and Progress"

Anthem: "Hino Nacional Brasileiro" (Portuguese)

"Brazilian National Anthem"

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Flag anthem: "Hino à Bandeira Nacional" (Portuguese)[1]

 "National Flag Anthem"

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National seal

 Selo Nacional do Brasil

National Seal of Brazil

Capital Brasília
15°47′S 47°52′W

Largest city São Paulo

23°33′S 46°38′W

Official language Portuguese[2]

and national language

Ethnic groups  47.73% White[nt 1]
(2010)[3] 43.13% Mixed[nt 2]
7.61% Black
1.09% Asian[nt 3]
0.43% Indigenous

Religion  88.8% Christianity
(2010) [4][5]
—64.6% Roman Catholic
—22.2% Protestant
—2.0% Other Christian
8.0% No religion
 2.0% Spiritism
1.2% Other religions

Demonym(s) Brazilian

Government Federal presidential constitutional republic

• President Jair Bolsonaro

• Vice President Hamilton Mourão
• President of the Rodrigo Maia
Chamber of Deputies
• President of the Davi Alcolumbre
Federal Senate
• President of the Luiz Fux
Supreme Federal
Court

Legislature National Congress

• Upper house Federal Senate

• Lower house Chamber of Deputies

Independence 
from the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves
• Declared 7 September 1822
• Recognized 29 August 1825
• Republic 15 November 1889
• Current constitution 5 October 1988

Area
• Total 8,515,767 km2 (3,287,956 sq mi) (5th)
• Water (%) 0.65

Population
• 2019 estimate 210,147,125[6] (6th)
• Density 25/km2 (64.7/sq mi) (200th)

GDP (PPP) 2020 estimate
• Total  $3.078 trillion[7] (8th)

• Per capita  $14,563[7] (83rd)

GDP (nominal) 2020 estimate
• Total  $1.363 trillion[7] (12th)

• Per capita  $6,450[7] (83rd)

Gini (2018)  53.9[8]
high · 10th

HDI (2019)  0.765[9]
 high · 84th

Currency Real (R$) (BRL)

Time zone UTC−2 to −5 (BRT)

Date format dd/mm/yyyy (CE)

Driving side right

Calling code +55

ISO 3166 code BR

Internet TLD .br

Brazil (Portuguese: Brasil; Brazilian Portuguese: [bɾaˈziw]),[nt 4] officially the Federative

Republic of Brazil (Portuguese:  República Federativa do Brasil),[10] is the largest
country in both South America and Latin America. At 8.5 million square kilometers
(3.2 million square miles)[11] and with over 211 million people, Brazil is the
world's fifth-largest country by area and the sixth 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 largest country to
have Portuguese as an official language and the only one in the Americas;[12][13] it is
also one of the most multicultural and ethnically diverse nations, due to over a
century of mass immigration from around the world;[14] as well as the most
populous Roman Catholic-majority country.
Bounded by the Atlantic Ocean on the east, Brazil has a coastline of 7,491
kilometers (4,655 mi).[15] It borders all other countries in South America
except Ecuador and Chile and covers 47.3% of the continent's land area.
[16]
 Its Amazon basin includes a vast tropical forest, home to diverse wildlife, a variety
of ecological systems, and extensive natural resources spanning
numerous protected habitats.[15] This unique environmental heritage makes Brazil one
of 17 megadiverse countries, and is the subject of significant global interest,
environmental degradation through processes like deforestation has direct impacts
on glo