Tag: Brazil

After the October 6, 2002 parliamentary elections, 11 parties are still represented in the National Congress. In the Chamber of Deputies, in addition to the PT (91 deputies out of 513), relatively strong positions were occupied by both right and center-right (Liberal Front Party – 84, Brazilian Progressive Party – 49, Brazilian Trabalist Party – […]

Geography, population, religion . The capital is the city of Brasilia with a population of 411 thousand people, the population of the country is just over 16 million people. Total area 8511965 sq. km. Largest cities: Sao Paulo – 9394 thousand people. (1991), Rio de Janeiro – 5474 thousand people. (1991), Belo Horizonte – 1530 […]

Population. – According to ezinesports, the Brazil remains one of the largest countries (8,511,965 km 2) and most populous (over 150 million residents) of the Earth: it occupies 48% of South America and hosts 51% of the population, ranking fifth by area and sixth by population in the world. It records one of the highest demographic […]

Population South American state. At the 2000 census the population was 169,799,170 residents, Increased to 186,405,000 according to a 2005 estimate. According to clothingexpress, a country of continental dimensions (it covers 6 % of the total emerged lands and 41.5 % of Latin America), Brazil presents landscapes marked by large morphological blocks, all of which […]

From April 26, 1960, when the capital was transferred to Brasília, the federal district of Rio de Janeiro (created in 1808) became one of the Brazilian states with the name of Guanabara (from the bay of the same name), but was later reunited with the state of Rio de Janeiro; moreover, from June 15, 1962, […]

Of the 30 and a half million residents surveyed in 1920, about one and a seventh were from the Federal District, more than 28 and a half million to the states, and less than a tenth of a million to the territory of Acre. Of the 20 states of the Confederation, 3 had a population […]

The Brazil, the largest and most populous country in South America, with an annual growth rate of ‘ 1, 4 %, reached in 1998, according to one estimate, 165 851 000 residents; according to the forecasts of the UN, it will reach 190 million residents in 2010, and 200 million by 2020. The average density, […]

DUTY-FREE SHOPPING Overview The following items can be imported into Brazil duty-free: Entry by plane, ship or overland: 10 cigarette boxes of 20 cigarettes and 25 cigars / cigarillos and 250 g pipe tobacco (people over 18 years); 12 l alcoholic beverages (people over 18 years); Personal effects and gifts worth up to US $ […]

GETTING THERE Arriving by plane Brazil’s national airline is TAM Airlines (JJ) (Internet: www.tam.com.br). TAM Airlines (JJ) flies to many Brazilian destinations from Frankfurt to São Paulo as well as from London, Madrid and Paris. Lufthansa (LH) (Internet: http://www.lufthansa.com/) flies daily from Frankfurt and Munich and five times a week from Zurich to São Paulo. […]

GENERAL Official name of the state Federative Republic of Brazil. Capital Brasília. Geography According to computerannals, Brazil covers almost half of South America (fifth largest country on earth) and borders on all South American countries with the exception of Chile and Ecuador. The Atlantic forms the eastern border. The country consists of about 60% plateau […]