Brazil

Capital: Brasilia (2.2 millions) Population: 198,739,269 Land Area: 8,511,965 sq km (3,286,486 sq miles) Land Division: 26 States (Acre, Alagoas, Amapa, Amazonas, Bahia, Ceara, Espirito Santo, Goias, Maranhao, Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, Minas Gerais, Para, Paraiba, Parana, Pernambuco, Piaui, Rio de Janeiro, Rio Grande do Norte, Rio Grande do Sul, Rondonia, Roraima, Santa Catarina, Sao Paulo, Sergipe, Tocantins) and 1 Federal District (Distrito Federal) Currency: Real (BRL) Languages: Portuguese (Official), Spanish, English, French National Day: September 7 (Independence Day) Religions: Roman Catholic (nominal) 73.6%, Protestant 15.4%, Spiritualist 1.3%, Bantu/voodoo 0.3%, other 1.8%, unspecified 0.2%, none 7.4% Ethnicity: White 53.7%, Mulatto (mixed White and Black) 38.5%, Black 6.2%, other (includes Japanese, Arab, Amerindian) 0.9%, unspecified 0.7%

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