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Brazil is the largest country in South America and the fifth largest country in the world!

It has a long coastal border with the Atlantic Ocean and borders with ten different countries!

Challenge Can you find the names of all the countries Brazil shares a border with using an atlas?

Fast facts: Population: 196.6 million Capital city: Brasilia Largest city: S達o Paulo Official language: Portuguese. Although there are about 180 indigenous languages!

Local money: Real Main religion: Catholicism

This is the flag of Brazil.

In the middle of the flag is a blue globe, with 27 stars.

Can you find out the meaning of the flag and the words in the middle?

Brazil is a ver y varied country. Its la ndscape varies from d ense forests and jungles t o huge cities. It has a greater variety of anim als than most other co untries in the world!

Brazil is quite a y. wealthy countr But the gap st e h ic r e h t n e e betw t and the poores f the o e n o is le p o e p biggest in the world.

About 40 million people live in poverty.

That is about 1 in 5 people.

17.5 million people live in Brazil's largest city, S達o Paulo. It is a very crowded place to live!

There are 30,000 millionaires in S達o Paulo. But 3.5 million people live in poverty and 15,000 live on the streets.

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The Amazon is the largest river in the world and the Amazon rainforest is the largest tropical forest in the world.

rest is o f in a r n o z a The Am or the f t n a t r o p im very whole health of the planet. t he f o % 0 2 ly r a Ne lost n e e b s a h n Amazo hange c e t a m li C . y alread tting u c ( n io t a t s e and defor ean m ld u o c ) s e e r down t est r o f e h t f o % another 20 ed by r a e p p a is d e may hav 2035!

People from indigenous communities are some of the poorest in Brazil.

Many indigenous people living in Brazil live in the Amazon region.

The indigenous people who live in the forest have to move when the trees are cut down. CAFOD is helping them to protect their land so that they can support their families and provide food and shelter for them.