Introduction
CE5
Brazil
[key], Port. Brasil, officially Federative Republic of
Brazil, republic (2020 est. pop. 212,600,000), 3,286,470 sq mi (8,511,965 sq
km), E South America. By far the largest of the Latin American countries,
Brazil occupies nearly half the continent of South America, stretching from
the Guiana Highlands in the north, where it borders Venezuela, Guyana,
Suriname, and French Guiana, to the plains of Uruguay, Paraguay, and
Argentina in the south. In the west it spreads to the equatorial rain
forest, bordering on Bolivia, Peru, and Colombia; in the east it juts far
out into the Atlantic toward Africa. Brasília is the capital; the
largest cities are São Paulo
and Rio de
Janeiro.
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