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!

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

Fast facts:

Population: 193.7 million

Capital city: Brasilia

Largest city: Sao Paulo

Official language: Portuguese although there are about 180 indigenous languages!

Local money: Real

Main religion: Catholicism

This is flag of Brazil.

The stars on the flag represent the southern constellations, the stars you would see in the night sky in Brazil.

Can you find out what the words in the middle mean?

Brazil is a very varied country. It’s landscape varies from dense forests and jungles to huge cities. It has a greater variety of animals than any other country on Earth! Including an amazing 100,000 different types of insect.

But the gap between

the richest and the

poorest people is

one of the biggest in

the world. Even

though Brazil is

quite a wealthy

country.

Brazil is the ninth-wealthiest country in the world, but

12% of the people live on less than $1 a day.

That means that one in eight people has only about 65p a

day to buy all their food, clothes, pay their bills...

Do you think you could manage on 65p?

11 million people live in Brazil's largest city, Sao Paulo. It is a very crowded place to live! More

than two million people live in ‘favelas’ or shanty towns, one million people live in run-down blocks of flats and

15,000 are living on the streets.

CAFOD is helping

people to persuade

the government to

provide good quality

housing and better

access to

jobs, schools and

doctors.

The Amazon is the largest river in the world and the Amazon Rainforest is the largest

tropical forest in the world.

The Amazon rainforest is

very important for the health

of the whole planet.

About 20% of the Amazon

has been lost already. But

climate change and

deforestation (cutting down

trees) could mean that 60%

of the forest may have

disappeared by 2030!

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

More than half of the 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.