Brazil
General country information
| Brasilia | |
| federal republic | |
| 8511965 km2 | |
| 196342592 (July 2008 est.) / 23/km2 | |
| Brazilian Real (BRL) currency converter | |
| $ 9700 (2007 est.) | |
| 0.8 (2005) | |
| 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 | |
| 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) | |
| mostly tropical, but temperate in south | |
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