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  2. Geography of Brazil - Wikipedia

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    Brazil occupies most of the eastern part of the South American continent and its geographic heartland and various islands in the Atlantic Ocean. [1] The only countries in the world that are larger are Russia , Canada , China and the United States . [ 1 ]

  3. Outline of Brazil - Wikipedia

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    Brazil – largest country in both South America and Latin America. With a geographical area of 8.5 million km 2, Brazil is also the largest country in the Southern Hemisphere and the world's fifth-largest country. With over 206 million people, Brazil is the seventh-most-populous country in the world.

  4. Brazil - Wikipedia

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    Brazil, [b] officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, [c] is the largest and easternmost country in South America. It is the world's fifth-largest country by area and the seventh largest by population, with over 212 million people. The country is a federation composed of 26 states and a Federal District, which hosts the capital, Brasília.

  5. Regions of Brazil - Wikipedia

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    Brazil is geopolitically divided into five regions (also called macroregions), by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics, which are formed by the federative units of Brazil. Although officially recognized, the division is merely academic, considering geographic, social and economic factors, among others, and has no political ...

  6. List of regions of Latin America - Wikipedia

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    Rioplatense region – Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, and parts of Paraguay. This region, due to extensive immigration from Europe, mainly from Italy, Spain, and Portugal maintains a very European culture in terms of cuisine, art, architecture, and dialect. Many Italian loanwords are used in the dialect of the region, Rioplatense Spanish. Mapuche ...

  7. Subdivisions of Brazil - Wikipedia

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    Since 1942, the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics has divided Brazil into five geographic regions. [1] On 23 November 1970, the regions of Brazil were adjusted slightly to the definition that is still in use today. [2] North Region (Região Norte) Northeast Region (Região Nordeste) Central-West Region (Região Centro-Oeste)

  8. Brazil socio-geographic division - Wikipedia

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    The Brazil socio-geographic division is a slightly different division than the Brazilian division by regions. It separates the country into three different and distinctive regions: Amazônia Legal; Centro-Sul; Nordeste; Historically, the different regions of Brazil had their own migratory movements, which resulted in racial differences between ...

  9. Brazilian Highlands - Wikipedia

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    The Brazilian Highlands or Brazilian Plateau (Portuguese: Planalto Brasileiro) is an extensive geographical region covering most of the eastern, southern and central portions of Brazil, in all some 4,500,000 km 2 (1,930,511 sq mi) or approximately half of the country's land area.