Brazil: A BIG Country 世界大國：巴西

[Updated with videos on May 4th, 2015]
No matter how you look at it, Brazil is definitely a BIG country. It has a very large land area
(8,515,767 square kilometers, 47.3% of South America) and a large population (204,255,000 as of April 27, 2015).

591px-Brazil_topo--CC BY-SA Captain Blood

Brazil also has a very varied population

Brazil influences the world in at least two important ways: coffee production and the Amazon Rain Forest.

Coffee: At one point, Brazil produced 80% of the world's coffee. This is the main reason why Brazil bought so many slaves (about 1,500,000 black slaves were bought from Africa). Even though Brazil now produces 37% of the world's coffee, it is still #1.

The Amazon Rain Forest: The Amazon Rain Forest absorbs a large proportion of the world's carbon dioxide (CO₂) and produces much of its oxygen (O₂), as well. Many of the world's plants and animals are found only in the Amazon. This is why people and governments are worried about deforestation (the cutting down of large numbers of trees)

Rank	Country	Land Area (km2)	water (%)
1	Russia	17,098,242	4.21
2	Canada	9,984,670	8.93
3	China	9,572,900	1.41
4	United States	9,526,468	6.76
5	Brazil	8,515,767	0.65

Rank	Country	Population	World Population
1	China	1,369,510,000	18.9%
2	India	1,270,340,000	17.5%
3	United States	320,879,000	4.43%
4	Indonesia	255,461,700	3.53%
5	Brazil	204,225,000	2.82%

These reworked charts were extracted from Wikipedia data.

So what does Brazil look like ? What can one see besides the Carnival and the Amazon Rain Forest?


Finding Brazil [Descobrindo o Brazil] from Uncage the Soul Productions on Vimeo.

Brasilia, the capital of Brazil is deep inside the country (look for the red star on the map at the top of this blogpost). When you watch the next video, don't forget to turn on the English captions: click on (CC)

BRASÍLIA 4K - A Capital do Brasil em ultra alta definição (English Subtitles Avaliable) from Sylvio Lima on Vimeo.