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• Brazil shares a border with every other country in South America apart from Ecuador and Chile - eleven in total - and has lived in peace with all of them for almost 140 years. (The last South American war involving Brazil was the conflict between Paraguay and the 'Triple Alliance' in the 1860s.)[A Professional Business Forum];U5n8a(w7c5x-]*v.A"a#i
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• It is estimated that Brazil contains greater biodiversity than any other country on Earth. The rivers of the Amazon region, for example, are home to more than 1,500 different species of fish.
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• The Amazon river, most of which lies inside Brazil, could be the longest in the world. The discovery in 2007 of what appears to be the Amazon’s true source – in southern rather than northern Peru – would give it a total length of 4,250 miles, about 90 miles longer than the Nile.www.fobshanghai.com2a ~,~'\8U6i1]2Z9i
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• With more than 185 million people, Brazil is the world's 5th most populous country after China, India, the United States and Indonesia. The population is currently growing by approximately 1.5% per year – a lower rate than in most other developing countries. By 2015, according to current projections, Brazil will have been overtaken by Pakistan as the 5th most populous country.7Y2D9\-b$Q:z,k%v*T-a
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• Brazil has the world's second biggest black population after Nigeria, the largest number of people of Japanese ancestry outside Japan, and more people of Lebanese or Syrian extraction than the combined populations of Lebanon and Syria.
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• Brazil has an indigenous Indian population of around 450,000, comprising more than 200 peoples who speak more than 180 different languages. According to the National Foundation for the Indian (FUNAI) the indigenous population has been growing at a rate of more than 3.5% per year and is now four times greater than in 1950. FUNAI also estimates that in the Brazilian Amazon there are more than 60 'uncontacted' Indian groups living in complete isolation from the outside world. Government policy is to avoid contact with such groups unless they are in extreme danger.
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• More than 80% of Brazilians live in urban areas. São Paulo, in the south-east of the country, is the biggest and most populous city in the Southern Hemisphere. The population of the city proper is around 11 million, and the adjacent metropolitan areas are home to a further 18 million. The urban region as a whole is therefore the second most populous in the world, after Tokyo.business forum,trade forum,business opportunity,Business China,Business India,Brazil business8L2C2{1?&L7@,s
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• Brazil has the 9th biggest economy in the world in terms of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) derived from purchasing power parity (PPP) calculations.FOB Business Forum3I6m3H({$M9p
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• The Brazilian company Embraer is the world's third biggest aircraft-producer and exporter after Boeing and Airbus. It specialises in 'regional' jets, which is to say medium-sized planes that seat up to 110 passengers.
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• Brazil is the world's largest exporter of sugar, coffee, orange juice, soya, beef, tobacco and chicken. In terms of agriculture the Financial Times describes the country as "a powerhouse whose size and efficiency few competitors can match".6X'E6A)N7Z2L
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• Against a backdrop of rising concerns about climate change and declining oil reserves, Brazil has become a pioneer in the production of ethanol (produced from sugarcane) and other biofuels. More than three-quarters of the automobiles sold in Brazil have flex-fuel engines, capable of running on petrol, ethanol, or a mixture of the two. Biofuel can be produced from castor beans, oil palms, sunflowers, babaçu nuts, peanuts, jatropha and soya. Brazil anticipates that it will be producing biofuel at a rate of 1 billion litres per year by the end of 2007.(~3e W8U!R5K"Y
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• The rate of deforestation in the Amazon region has fallen sharply since 2004. Deforestation from mid-2004 to mid-2005 was 32% lower than over the previous twelve months, and there was a further decrease of 11% in 2005-06. Overall, approximately 15% of Brazil's territory is covered by virgin forest.
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• Brazil is participating in the biggest ever scientific project entailing cooperation between different countries – the International Space Station (ISS). In March 2006 the astronaut Marcos Pontes became the first Brazilian (and the first native Portuguese speaker) to go into space when he embarked on a mission to the ISS. He stayed there for a week, performing experiments involving nanotechnology and biotechnology.
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• Brazil has the only source of synchrotron light, which permits the study of atoms and molecules, in the Southern Hemisphere. The equipment – developed, built and operated entirely by Brazilians – belongs to the National Synchrotron Light Laboratory in Campinas, São Paulo state.;U2d,Q'M!c
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• Brazil has become the world’s leading source of satellite images, due to the government's policy of providing users in Brazil and neighbouring countries with free access to the images produced by the Sino-Brazilian Earth Resources Satellite.
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• In 2000, a team of scientists based in São Paulo achieved the first ever sequencing or 'decoding' of the genome of a plant pathogen. The bacterium in question was the insect-borne Xylella fastidiosa, which infects citrus fruit and other commercially important produce.6K8j5H2N3r
  
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• Brazil's Aids programme is widely seen as a model for other developing countries. In the early 1990s the World Bank predicted that 1.2 million Brazilians would have HIV-Aids by 2000. The current number, however, is around 650,000, and is rising only very slowly. The annual number of Aids-related deaths has fallen sharply. Brazil is one of the few countries that provide free anti-retroviral medicines to those who are HIV-infected, and the government has also applied pressure on a number of international pharmaceutical companies in order to reduce the prices at which it buys anti-retroviral drugs. The government also puts great emphasis on prevention, with education and publicity campaigns actively and openly promoting safe sex among high-risk and vulnerable groups, including prostitutes and adolescents.
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• The Brazilian Oscar Niemeyer is universally considered one of the most important figures in international modern architecture. As well as being the major influence on the construction of Brasília, Brazil's new capital, in the late 1950s, he has also designed numerous important buildings in other countries – including the United Nations headquarters in New York. Even though he is now in his late nineties, he continues to work five days a week in his office in Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro.FOB Business Forum4@1t9E'|,d+V!K"a'O
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• Since 2003, in the colonial town of Parati in Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil has been hosting an annual international literary festival that attracts a large number of famous participants. Salman Rushdie, Ian McEwan, Margaret Atwood, Martin Amis, Christopher Hitchens, Toni Morrisson and Eric Hobsbawm are among those who have attended.business forum,trade forum,business opportunity,Business China,Business India,Brazil business$Q8p3V8G,i4`
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• The most famous of the gentle bossa nova melodies of the 1950s and 60s, The Girl from Ipanema, written by Antonio Carlos ('Tom') Jobim and Vinicius de Moraes, is generally thought to be among the five most-played pieces of music (either live or on the radio) in the world.
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• The first person to make an 'unassisted' flight in an aircraft (i.e. a heavier-than-air machine, not a balloon) was the Brazilian Albert Santos-Dumont, who piloted the 14 Bis over a distance of about 60 metres, at the modest altitude of 2-3 metres, in Paris on 23 October 1906. The Wright brothers had flown a similar distance in the United States in December 1903, but in order to become airborne their machine required launch rails and a catapult.business forum,trade forum,business opportunity,Business China,Business India,Brazil business5H,^!T&C5U#y
  
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• The city of Rio de Janeiro throws a New Year's Eve party that is probably the biggest – and arguably the most spectacular – in the world. Around two million people, all of them dressed at least partly in white (a popular tradition adopted from Afro-Brazilian religion), congregate on the huge crescent-shaped expanse of Copacabana beach to watch a midnight firework display.business forum,trade forum,business opportunity,Business China,Business India,Brazil business&V f7e+@.f9Z5H*o&v
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BRAZIL STATISTICS
Area	8.5 million sq. Km
Population (2007)	188.3 million
Urban Population	81.2%
Language	Portuguese
Borders	23,000 Km o/w 7,300 sea
States	26 + Federal District
Municipalities	5,564
GDP (2006)	US$ 959.5 billion
GDP per capita (2006)	US$ 5,095
Consumer Inflation (2006)	3.14%
Currency	Real (R$)
Exchange Rate (average 2006)	US$ 1= R$ 2,1763
Trade turnover (2006)	US$ 228,9 billion
Imports	US$ 91,4 billion
Exports	US$ 137,5 billion
Life expectancy	71.3 years
Infant Mortality (per 1,000 born)	27
Illiteracy Rate (>15 years)	11.6 %
Human Development Index (2004)	0.792

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Date	Holiday	Festival - Fiesta de	Location
January 1	New Year Año Novo		National
January 1		Festa de Iemanjá	Rio de Janeiro
January 1		Procissão de Senhor Bom Jesus dos Navegantes	Salvador Bahia
January 1 - 20		Folia de Reis	Parati, Rio de Janeiro
January 6	Epiphany		National
Second Thursday in January		Lavagem do Bonfim	Salvador Bahia
Second Sunday in January		Senhor Bom Jesus dos Navegantes	Penedo Alagoas
January 24 - February 2		NS de Nazaré	Nazaré Bahia
February 2		Festa de Iemanjá	Salvador Bahia
February		Grande Vaquejada do Nordeste	Natal Rio Grande do Norte
February or March		Lavagem da Igreja de Itapoã	Itapoã Bahia
February or March		Shrove Tuesday	Various locations
February or March	Carnaval		National
March or April	Good Friday and Easter		National
Mid April		Drama da Paixão de Cristo	Brejo da Madre de Cristo Pernambuco
April 21	Tiradentes		National
April or May		Festival Amazonas de Ópera	Manaus
April or May		Cavalhadas	Pirenópolis Goiás
May 1	Labor Day		National
Late may or early June		Divino Espiritu Santo	Parati Rio de Janeiro
June	Corpus Christi		National
June	Festas Juninas and Bumba Meu Boi		National
June		Festival Folcórico do Amazonas	Manaus Amazonas
June 24		São João	Cachoeira and others Paraíba
June/July		Pacote Festival de Parintins	Parintins
July		Festa do Divino	Diamantina Minas Gerais
July		Regata de Jangadas Dragão do Mar	Fortaleza Ceará
August 15		Festa de Iemanjá	Fortaleza Ceará
Mid August		Festa da NS de Boa Morte	Cachoeira Bahia
September		Festival de Cirandas	Itamaracá Pernambuco
September		Cavalhada	Caeté Minas Gerais
September 7	Independence Day		National
September 8		Festa de Nossa Senhora dos Remédios	Paraty
October 1	Our Lady of Aparecida		National
October 12		Festa de NS Aparecida	Aparecida São Paulo
Second Sunday of October on		Cirio de Nazaré	Belém Pará
Second half of October		NS do Rosário	Cachoeira Bahia
November 1 - 2		Festa do Padre Cicero	Juazeiro do Norte Ceará
November 2	All Souls Day		National
November		NS do Ajuda	Cachoeira Bahia
November 15	Proclamation Day		National
December 8	Festa do NS da Conção Navidad		National
December 8		Festa de Iemanjá	Belem Parã and João Pessoa Paraíba
December 25	Christmas Day Navidad		National

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dear friend, i knew nothing about Brazil except the brazil football and warm dance before,  [A Professional Business Forum]2J$}(D-e2F1p6G!I
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Thanks for your reading. If you have more information, please don't forget to share with us one day. Share together.

you are welcome,  i am glad to learn something new  here, it give me a brorder vision to the world.

I like the Brazil ,it is a very beauty country and I hope some time I can go to there to have a treep to enjoy the life in there.i like playing football,there is the world of the football;

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it's too long, i've no patience to look it over, i suggest to separate them by different topic, or most will only skim them.

Thanks a lot. I read it over. And it make me know more Brazil. Before, I only know the football and dancing passion of Brazil. Now I get more. Thank you for LZ. It make me benefit a lot.