Brazil

Brazil (ⁱ/brəˈzɪl/; Portuguese: Brasil [bɾaˈziw]),^[9] officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: República Federativa do Brasil, listen ),^[10] is the largest country in both South America and the Latin American region. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population.^[11] It is the largest Portuguese-speaking country in the world, and the only one in the Americas.^[12]

Bounded by the Atlantic Ocean on the east, Brazil has a coastline of 7,491 km (4,655 mi).^[13] It borders all other South American countries except Ecuador and Chile and occupies 47.3 percent of the continent of South America.^[14] Its Amazon River basin includes a vast tropical forest, home to diverse wildlife, a variety of ecological systems, and extensive natural resources spanning numerous protected habitats.^[13] This unique environmental heritage makes Brazil one of 17 megadiverse countries, and is the subject of significant global interest and debate regarding deforestation and environmental protection.

Brazil was inhabited by numerous tribal nations prior to the landing of traveler Pedro Álvares Cabral in 1500, who claimed the area for Portugal. Brazil remained a Portuguese colony until 1808, when the capital of the empire was transferred from Lisbon to Rio de Janeiro after French forces invaded Portugal. In 1815, it was elevated to the rank of kingdom upon the formation of the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves. Its independence was achieved in 1822 with the creation of the Empire of Brazil, a unitary state governed under a constitutional monarchy and a parliamentary system. The country became a presidential republic in 1889, when a military coup d'état proclaimed the Republic, although the bicameral legislature, now called Congress, dates back to the ratification of the first constitution in 1824. An authoritarian military junta had led the nation from 1964 until 1985. Brazil's current Constitution, formulated in 1988, defines it as a federal republic.^[15] The Federation is composed of the union of the Federal District, the 26 states, and the 5,570 municipalities.

The country's economy is the world's eighth largest by nominal and seventh largest by GDP (PPP) as of 2015.^[6]^[16] A member of the BRIC group, Brazil until 2010 had one of the world's fastest growing major economies, with its economic reforms giving the country new international recognition and influence.^[17] Brazil's national development bank plays an important role for the country's economic growth.^[18] Brazil is a founding member of the United Nations, the G20, BRICS, Unasul, Mercosul, Organization of American States, Organization of Ibero-American States, CPLP and the Latin Union. Brazil is a regional power in Latin America and a middle power in international affairs,^[19] with some analysts identifying it as an emerging global power.^[20] Brazil has been the world's largest producer of coffee for the last 150 years.^[21]

Etymology

Main article: Name of Brazil

The word "Brazil" comes from brazilwood, a tree that once grew plentifully along the Brazilian coast.^[22] In Portuguese, brazilwood is called pau-brasil, with the word brasil commonly given the etymology "red like an ember", formed from Latin brasa ("ember") and the suffix -il (from -iculum or -ilium).^[23] As brazilwood produces a deep red dye, it was highly valued by the European cloth industry and was the earliest commercially exploited product from Brazil.^[24] Throughout the 16th century, massive amounts of brazilwood were harvested by indigenous peoples (mostly Tupi) along the Brazilian coast, who sold the timber to European traders (mostly Portuguese, but also French) in return for assorted European consumer goods.^[25]

The official Portuguese name of the land, in original Portuguese records, was the "Land of the Holy Cross" (Terra da Santa Cruz),^[26] but European sailors and merchants commonly called it simply the "Land of Brazil" (Terra do Brasil) on account of the brazilwood trade.^[27] The popular appellation eclipsed and eventually supplanted the official Portuguese name. Early sailors sometimes also called it the "Land of Parrots" (Terra di Papaga).^[28]

In the Guarani language, an official language of Paraguay, Brazil is called "Pindorama". This was the name the indigenous population gave to the region, meaning "land of the palm trees".^[29]

History

Main article: History of Brazil

Pre-Cabraline era

Megaliths in the Solstice Archaeological Park, in Amapá, erected between 500 and 2000 years ago, probably to carry out astronomical observations.

One of the earliest human remains found in the Americas, Luzia Woman, were found in the area of Pedro Leopoldo, Minas Gerais and provide evidence of human habitation going back at least 11,000 years.^[30]^[31] The earliest pottery ever found in the Western Hemisphere was excavated in the Amazon basin of Brazil and radiocarbon dated to 8,000 years ago (6000 BC). The pottery was found near Santarém and provides evidence that the tropical forest region supported a complex prehistoric culture.^[32]

Around the time of the Portuguese arrival, the territory of current day Brazil had an estimated indigenous population of 7 million people,^[33] mostly semi-nomadic who subsisted on hunting, fishing, gathering, and migrant agriculture. The indigenous population of Brazil comprised several large indigenous ethnic groups (e.g. the Tupis, Guaranis, Gês and Arawaks). The Tupí people were subdivided into the Tupiniquins and Tupinambás, and there were also many subdivision of the other groups.^[34]

Before the arrival of Europeans, the boundaries between these groups and their subgroups were marked by wars that arose from differences in culture, language and moral beliefs.^[35] These wars also involved large-scale military actions on land and water, with cannibalistic rituals on POWs.^[36]^[37] While heredity had some weight, leadership status was more subdued over time, than allocated in succession ceremonies and conventions.^[38] Slavery among the Indians had a different meaning than it had for Europeans, since it originated from a diverse socio-economic organization, in which asymmetries were translated into kinship relations.^[39]

Portuguese colonization

Main article: Colonial Brazil

Representation of the landing of Pedro Álvares Cabral in Porto Seguro, 1500.

The land now called Brazil was claimed for the Portuguese Empire on 22 April 1500, with the arrival of the Portuguese fleet commanded by Pedro Álvares Cabral.^[40] The Portuguese encountered indigenous peoples divided into several tribes, most of whom spoke languages of the Tupi–Guarani family, and fought among themselves.^[41] Though the first settlement was founded in 1532, colonization was effectively begun in 1534, when King Dom João III of Portugal divided the territory into the fifteen private and autonomous Captaincy Colonies of Brazil.^[42]^[43]

However, the decentralized and unorganized tendencies of the captaincy colonies proved problematic, and in 1549 the Portuguese king restructured them into the Governorate General of Brazil, a single and centralized Portuguese colony in South America.^[43]^[44] In the first two centuries of colonization, Indigenous and Europeans groups lived in constant war, establishing opportunistic alliances in order to gain advantages against each other.^[45]^[46]^[47]^[48] By the mid-16th century, cane sugar had become Brazil's most important exportation product,^[41]^[49] and slaves purchased in Sub-Saharan Africa, in the slave market of Western Africa^[50] (not only those from Portuguese allies of their colonies in Angola and Mozambique), had become its largest import,^[51]^[52] to cope with plantations of sugarcane, due to increasing international demand for Brazilian sugar.^[53]^[54]

Painting showing the arrest of Tiradentes; he was sentenced to death for his involvement in the best known movement for independence in Colonial Brazil.

By the end of the 17th century, sugarcane exports began to decline,^[55] and the discovery of gold by bandeirantes in the 1690s would become the new backbone of the colony's economy, fostering a Brazilian Gold Rush,^[56] attracting thousands of new settlers to Brazil, from Portugal and all Portuguese colonies around the World,^[57] which in turn caused some conflicts between newcomers and old settlers.^[58]

Portuguese expeditions known as Bandeiras gradually advanced the Portugal colonial original frontiers in South America to approximately the current Brazilian borders.^[59]^[60] In this era other European powers tried to colonize parts of Brazil, in incursions that the Portuguese had to fight, notably the French in Rio during the 1560s, in Maranhão during the 1610s, and the Dutch in Bahia and Pernambuco, during the Dutch–Portuguese War, after the end of Iberian Union.^[61]

The Portuguese colonial administration in Brazil had two objectives that would ensure colonial order, and the monopoly of its wealthiest and largest colony: both keep under control and eradicate all forms of slaves' rebellion and resistance, such as the Quilombo of Palmares,^[62] as well as repress all movements for autonomy or independence, such as the Minas Conspiracy.^[63]

United Kingdom with Portugal

Main article: United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves

In late 1807, Spanish and Napoleonic forces threatened the security of continental Portugal, causing Prince Regent João, in the name of Queen Maria I, to move the royal court from Lisbon to Brazil.^[64] There they established some of Brazil's first financial institutions, such as its local stock exchanges,^[65] a National Bank, and ended the monopoly of the colony trade with Portugal, opening it to other nations. In 1809, in retaliation for being forced into exile, the Prince Regent ordered the Portuguese conquest of French Guiana.^[66]

With the end of the Peninsular War in 1814, the courts of Europe demanded that Queen Maria I and Prince Regent João return to Portugal, deeming it unfit for the head of an ancient European monarchy to reside in a colony. In 1815, in order to justify continuing to live in Brazil, where the royal court had thrived for the past six years, the Crown established the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil, and the Algarves, thus creating a pluricontinental transatlantic monarchic state.^[67] However, such a ploy didn't last long, since the leadership in Portugal resentful with the new status of its larger colony, continued to require the return of court to Lisbon (as postulated by the Liberal Revolution of 1820), as well as groups of Brazilians, impatient for practical and real changes still demanded independence and a republic, as showed by the 1817 Pernambucan Revolt.^[67] In 1821, as a demand of revolutionaries who had taken the city of Porto,^[68] D. João VI was unable to hold out any longer, and departed for Lisbon. There he swore oath to the new constitution, leaving his son, Prince Pedro de Alcântara, as Regent of the Kingdom of Brazil.^[69]

Independent Empire

Main articles: Independence of Brazil and Empire of Brazil

Declaration of the Brazilian independence by the later Emperor Dom Pedro I on September 7, 1822.

Tensions between Portuguese and Brazilians increased, and the Portuguese Cortes, guided by the new political regime imposed by the 1820 Liberal Revolution, tried to re-establish Brazil as a colony.^[70] The Brazilians refused to yield, and Prince Pedro decided to stand with them, declaring the country's independence from Portugal on 7 September 1822.^[71] A month later, Prince Pedro was declared the first Emperor of Brazil, with the regnal title of Dom Pedro I, resulting in the foundation of the Empire of Brazil.^[72]

The Brazilian War of Independence, which had already begun along this process, spread through northern, northeastern regions and in Cisplatina province.^[73] With the last Portuguese soldiers surrendering on 8 March 1824,^[74] Portugal officially recognized Brazil on 29 August 1825.^[75]
In 7 April 1831, worn down by years of administrative turmoil and political dissensions with both liberal and conservative sides of politics, including an attempt of republican secession,^[76] as well as unreconciled with the way that absolutists in Portugal had given to the succession of King John VI, Pedro I went to Portugal to reclaim his daughter's crown, abdicating the Brazilian throne in favor of his five-year-old son and heir (who thus became the Empire's second monarch, with the regnal title of Dom Pedro II).^[77]

Pedro II, Emperor of Brazil between 1831 and 1889.

As the new Emperor could not exert his constitutional powers until he became of age, a regency was set up by the National Assembly.^[78] In the absence of a charismatic figure who could represent a moderate face of power, during this period a series of localized rebellions took place, as the Cabanagem, the Malê Revolt, the Balaiada, the Sabinada, and the Ragamuffin War, which emerged from the dissatisfaction of the provinces with the central power, coupled with old and latent social tensions peculiar of a vast, slaveholding and newly independent nation state.^[79] This period of internal political and social upheaval, which included the Praieira revolt, was overcome only at the end of the 1840s, years after the end of the regency, which occurred with the premature coronation of Pedro II in 1841.^[80]

During the last phase of the monarchy, internal political debate was centered on the issue of slavery. The Atlantic slave trade was abandoned in 1850,^[81] as a result of the British' Aberdeen Act, but only in May 1888 after a long process of internal mobilization and debate for an ethical and legal dismantling of slavery in the country, was the institution formally abolished.^[82]

The foreign affairs in the monarchy were basically related issues with the countries of the Southern Cone with which Brazil has borders. Long after the Cisplatine War that resulted in independence for Uruguay,^[83] Brazil won three international wars during the 58-year reign of Pedro II. These were the Platine War, the Uruguayan War and the devastating Paraguayan War, the largest war effort in Brazilian history.^[84]^[85]

On 15 November 1889, worn out by years of economic stagnation, in attrition with the majority of Army officers, as well as with rural and financial elites (for different reasons), the monarchy was overthrown by a military coup.^[86]

Early republic

Proclamation of the Republic, 1893, oil on canvas by Benedito Calixto (1853-1927).

In half of the first 100 years of republic in Brazil, the Army exercised power directly or through figures designated by it. Getúlio Vargas (center, bald, no hat), for example, was the military's confidence man brought to power in October 1930.

Main articles: República Velha, Estado Novo (Brazil) and Second Brazilian Republic

The "early republican government was little more than a military dictatorship, with army dominating affairs both at Rio de Janeiro and in the states. Freedom of the press disappeared and elections were controlled by those in power".^[87] In 1894, following the unfoldings of two severe crises, an economic along with a military one, the republican civilians rose to power.^[88]^[89]^[90]

Little by little, a cycle of general instability sparked by these crises undermined the regime to such an extent, that by 1930 in the wake of the murder of his running mate, the defeated opposition presidential candidate Getúlio Vargas supported by most of the military, led a successful revolt.^[91]^[92] Vargas was supposed to assume power temporarily, but instead closed the Congress, extinguished the Constitution, ruled with emergency powers and replaced the states' governors with his own supporters.^[93]^[94]

In the 1930s, three major attempts to remove Vargas and his supporters from power occurred: in the second half of 1932, in November 1935, and in May 1938.^[95]^[96]^[97] Being the second one, the communist revolt, used as an excuse for the preclusion of elections, put into effect by a coup d'état in 1937, which made the Vargas regime a full dictatorship, noted for its brutality and censorship of the press.^[98]

In foreign policy, the success in resolving border disputes with neighboring countries in the early years of the republican period,^[99] was followed by a failed attempt to exert a prominent role in the League of Nations,^[100] after its involvement in World War I.^[101]^[102] In World War II Brazil remained neutral until August 1942, when the country entered on the allied side,^[103]^[104] after suffering retaliations undertaken by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, due to the country having severed diplomatic relations with them in the wake of the Pan-American Conference.^[105]

With the allied victory in 1945 and the end of the Nazi-fascist regimes in Europe, Vargas's position became unsustainable and he was swiftly overthrown in another military coup, with Democracy being "reinstated" by the same army that had discontinued it 15 years before.^[106] Vargas committed suicide in August 1954 amid a political crisis, after having returned to power by election in 1950.^[107]^[108]

Contemporary era

Main articles: Brazilian military government and History of Brazil since 1985

Construction of Brasília, the new capital, in 1959

Several brief interim governments succeeded after Vargas's suicide.^[109] Juscelino Kubitschek became president in 1956 and assumed a conciliatory posture towards the political opposition that allowed him to govern without major crises.^[110] The economy and industrial sector grew remarkably,^[111] but his greatest achievement was the construction of the new capital city of Brasília, inaugurated in 1960.^[112] His successor was Jânio Quadros, who resigned in 1961 less than a year after taking office.^[113] His vice-president, João Goulart, assumed the presidency, but aroused strong political opposition^[114] and was deposed in April 1964 by a coup that resulted in a military regime.^[115]

The new regime was intended to be transitory^[116] but it gradually closed in on itself and became a full dictatorship with the promulgation of the Fifth Institutional Act in 1968.^[117] The repression was not limited to only those who resorted to guerrilla tactics to fight the regime, but also reached institutional opponents, artists, journalists and other members of civil society,^[118]^[119] inside and outside the country (through the infamous "Operation Condor").^[120]^[121] Despite its brutality, like other totalitarian regimes in history, due to an economic boom, known as an "economic miracle", the regime reached its highest level of popularity in the early 1970s.^[122]

Slowly however, the wear and tear of years of dictatorial power that have not slowed the repression, even after the defeat of the leftist guerrillas,^[123] plus the inability to deal with the economic crises of the period and popular pressure, made an opening policy inevitable, which from the regime side was led by Generals Geisel and Golbery.^[124] With the enactment of the Amnesty Law in 1979, Brazil began its slow return to democracy, which would be completed during the 1980s.^[80]

Ulysses Guimarães holding the Constitution of 1988 in his hands.

Civilians returned to power in 1985 when José Sarney assumed the presidency, becoming unpopular during his tenure due to his failure in controlling the economic crisis and hyperinflation inherited from the military regime.^[125] Sarney's unsuccessful government allowed the election in 1989 of the almost unknown Fernando Collor, who was subsequently impeached by the National Congress in 1992.^[126] Collor was succeeded by his Vice-President Itamar Franco, who appointed Fernando Henrique Cardoso as Minister of Finance. In 1994, Cardoso produced a highly successful Plano Real,^[127] that, after decades of failed economic plans made by previous governments attempting to curb hyperinflation, finally granted stability to the Brazilian economy,^[128]^[129] leading Cardoso to be elected that year, and again in 1998.^[130]

The peaceful transition of power from Fernando Henrique to his main opposition leader, Luís Inácio Lula da Silva, who was elected in 2002 and re-elected in 2006, proved that Brazil had finally succeeded in achieving its long-sought political stability.^[131] Lula was succeeded in 2011 by the current president, Dilma Rousseff, the country's first woman president and as such one of the most powerful women in the world.^[132]^[133]

In June 2013, following the viral phenomenon of worldwide manifestations (such as the "Arab Spring", the "Occupy Wall Street" and the "Spanish Indignados"),^[134] numerous protests erupted in Brazil. For days, hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets in several cities to protest.^[135] Initially a movement against the increase in public transport fares, it assumed gigantic proportions, sparked by the excessive use of force by the state polices, turning into a series of huge demonstrations by groups and individuals, angry about a range of issues (including new stadium projects for international sports events, demands on quality of public services, anger about corruption, and opposition to a constitutional amendment proposal, PEC 37, which is interpreted by some as an attempt to curb repression of corruption^[136]^[137]). Thus it became a movement containing conflicting ideologies, with so far no single political agenda nor recognizable leadership.^[138]^[139]^[140]

Geography

Main article: Geography of Brazil

Topographic map of Brazil

Brazil occupies a large area along the eastern coast of South America and includes much of the continent's interior,^[141] sharing land borders with Uruguay to the south; Argentina and Paraguay to the southwest; Bolivia and Peru to the west; Colombia to the northwest; and Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname and the French overseas department of French Guiana to the north. It shares a border with every South American country except for Ecuador and Chile. It also encompasses a number of oceanic archipelagos, such as Fernando de Noronha, Rocas Atoll, Saint Peter and Paul Rocks, and Trindade and Martim Vaz.^[13] Its size, relief, climate, and natural resources make Brazil geographically diverse.^[141] Including its Atlantic islands, Brazil lies between latitudes 6°N and 34°S, and longitudes 28° and 74°W.

Brazil is the fifth largest country in the world, and third largest in the Americas, with a total area of 8,515,767.049 km² (3,287,956 sq mi),^[142] including 55,455 km² (21,411 sq mi) of water.^[13] It spans four time zones; from UTC−5 comprising the state of Acre and the westernmost portion of Amazonas, to UTC−4 in the western states, to UTC−3 in the eastern states (the national time) and UTC−2 in the Atlantic islands.^[143] Brazil is the only country in the world that lies on the equator while having contiguous territory outside the tropics. Brazilian topography is also diverse and includes hills, mountains, plains, highlands, and scrublands. Much of the terrain lies between 200 metres (660 ft) and 800 metres (2,600 ft) in elevation.^[144] The main upland area occupies most of the southern half of the country.^[144] The northwestern parts of the plateau consist of broad, rolling terrain broken by low, rounded hills.^[144]

The southeastern section is more rugged, with a complex mass of ridges and mountain ranges reaching elevations of up to 1,200 metres (3,900 ft).^[144] These ranges include the Mantiqueira and Espinhaço mountains and the Serra do Mar.^[144] In the north, the Guiana Highlands form a major drainage divide, separating rivers that flow south into the Amazon Basin from rivers that empty into the Orinoco River system, in Venezuela, to the north. The highest point in Brazil is the Pico da Neblina at 2,994 metres (9,823 ft), and the lowest is the Atlantic Ocean.^[13]

Brazil has a dense and complex system of rivers, one of the world's most extensive, with eight major drainage basins, all of which drain into the Atlantic.^[145] Major rivers include the Amazon (the world's second-longest river and the largest in terms of volume of water), the Paraná and its major tributary the Iguaçu (which includes the Iguazu Falls), the Negro, São Francisco, Xingu, Madeira and Tapajós rivers.^[145]

Panorama of the Chapada Diamantina from the Pai Inácio Hill, in the Chapada Diamantina National Park, Bahia.

Climate

Main article: Climate of Brazil

Tropical climate in Tambaba beach, Paraíba.

Snow in Caxias do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul.

The climate of Brazil comprises a wide range of weather conditions across a large area and varied topography, but most of the country is tropical.^[13] According to the Köppen system, Brazil hosts five major climatic subtypes: equatorial, tropical, semiarid, highland tropical, temperate, and subtropical. The different climatic conditions produce environments ranging from equatorial rainforests in the north and semiarid deserts in the northeast, to temperate coniferous forests in the south and tropical savannas in central Brazil.^[146] Many regions have starkly different microclimates.^[147]^[148]

An equatorial climate characterizes much of northern Brazil. There is no real dry season, but there are some variations in the period of the year when most rain falls.^[146] Temperatures average 25 °C (77 °F),^[148] with more significant temperature variation between night and day than between seasons.^[147]

Over central Brazil rainfall is more seasonal, characteristic of a savanna climate.^[147] This region is as extensive as the Amazon basin but has a very different climate as it lies farther south at a higher altitude.^[146] In the interior northeast, seasonal rainfall is even more extreme. The semiarid climatic region generally receives less than 800 millimetres (31.5 in) of rain,^[149] most of which generally falls in a period of three to five months of the year^[150] and occasionally less than this, creating long periods of drought.^[147] Brazil's 1877–78 Grande Seca (Great Drought), the worst in Brazil's history,^[151] caused approximately half a million deaths.^[152] The one from 1915 was devastating too.^[153]

South of Bahia, near the coasts, and more southerly most of the state of São Paulo, the distribution of rainfall changes, with rain falling throughout the year.^[146] The south enjoys subtropical conditions, with cool winters and average annual temperatures not exceeding 18 °C (64.4 °F);^[148] winter frosts and snowfall are not rare in the highest areas.^[146]^[147]

Biodiversity and environment

Main articles: Wildlife of Brazil, Deforestation in Brazil and Conservation in Brazil

Brazil's large territory comprises different ecosystems, such as the Amazon rainforest, recognized as having the greatest biological diversity in the world,^[154] with the Atlantic Forest and the Cerrado, sustaining the greatest biodiversity.^[155] In the south, the Araucaria pine forest grows under temperate conditions.^[155] The rich wildlife of Brazil reflects the variety of natural habitats. Scientists estimate that the total number of plant and animal species in Brazil could approach four million, mostly invertebrates.^[155]

The Amazon rainforest, the richest and most biodiverse rainforest in the world.

The jaguar is a wild animal typical of Brazil, mainly in the Amazon jungle.

Larger mammals inclde carnivores pumas, jaguars, ocelots, rare bush dogs, and foxes, and herbivores peccaries, tapirs, anteaters, sloths, opossums, and armadillos. Deer are plentiful in the south, and many species of New World monkeys are found in the northern rain forests.^[155]^[156] Concern for the environment has grown in response to global interest in environmental issues.^[157] Brazil's Amazon Basin is home to an extremely diverse array of fish species, including the red-bellied piranha. Despite its reputation as a ferocious freshwater fish, the red-bellied piranha is actually a generally timid scavenger. Biodiversity can contribute to agriculture, livestock, forestry and fisheries extraction. However, almost all economically exploited species of plants, such as soybeans and coffee, or animals, such as chickens, are imported from other countries, and the economic use of native species still crawls. In the Brazilian GDP, the forest sector represents just over 1% and fishing 0.4%.

The natural heritage of Brazil is severely threatened by cattle ranching and agriculture, logging, mining, resettlement, oil and gas extraction, over-fishing, wildlife trade, dams and infrastructure, water pollution, climate change, fire, and invasive species.^[154] In many areas of the country, the natural environment is threatened by development.^[158] Construction of highways has opened up previously remote areas for agriculture and settlement; dams have flooded valleys and inundated wildlife habitats; and mines have scarred and polluted the landscape.^[157]^[159] At least 70 dams are said to be planned for the Amazon region, including the controversial Belo Monte hydroelectric dam.^[160]

Government and politics

Main articles: Politics of Brazil, Federal government of Brazil and Elections in Brazil

Dilma Rousseff, the current Brazilian president.

The Brazilian Federation is the "indissoluble union" of the States, the Municipalities and the Federal District.^[15] The Union, the states and the Federal District, and the municipalities, are the "spheres of government". The Federation is set on five fundamental principles:^[15] sovereignty, citizenship, dignity of human beings, the social values of labor and freedom of enterprise, and political pluralism. The classic tripartite branches of government (executive, legislative and judicial under a checks and balances system) are formally established by the Constitution.^[15] The executive and legislative are organized independently in all three spheres of government, while the judiciary is organized only at the federal and state/Federal District spheres.

All members of the executive and legislative branches are directly elected.^[161]^[162]^[163] Judges and other judicial officials are appointed after passing entry exams.^[161] For most of its democratic history, Brazil has had a multi-party system, proportional representation. Voting is compulsory for the literate between 18 and 70 years old and optional for illiterates and those between 16 and 18 or beyond 70.^[15]

National Congress of Brazil, seat of the legislative branch.

Together with several smaller parties, four political parties stand out: Workers' Party (PT), Brazilian Social Democracy Party (PSDB), Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (PMDB) and Democrats (DEM). Fifteen political parties are represented in Congress. It is common for politicians to switch parties, and thus the proportion of congressional seats held by particular parties changes regularly.^[164] Almost all governmental and administrative functions are exercised by authorities and agencies affiliated to the Executive.

The form of government is that of a democratic republic, with a presidential system.^[15] The president is both head of state and head of government of the Union and is elected for a four-year term,^[15] with the possibility of re-election for a second successive term. The current president is Dilma Rousseff, who was inaugurated on 1 January 2011.^[165] The President appoints the Ministers of State, who assist in government.^[15] Legislative houses in each political entity are the main source of law in Brazil. The National Congress is the Federation's bicameral legislature, consisting of the Chamber of Deputies and the Federal Senate. Judiciary authorities exercise jurisdictional duties almost exclusively.

Law

Main articles: Law of Brazil, Law enforcement in Brazil and Crime in Brazil

Brazilian law is based on Roman-Germanic traditions^[166] and civil law concepts prevail over common law practice. Most of Brazilian law is codified, although non-codified statutes also represent a substantial part, playing a complementary role. Court decisions set out interpretive guidelines; however, they are seldom binding on other specific cases. Doctrinal works and the works of academic jurists have strong influence in law creation and in law cases.

Supreme Federal Court of Brazil serves primarily as the Constitutional Court of the country.

The legal system is based on the Federal Constitution, which was promulgated on 5 October 1988, and is the fundamental law of Brazil. All other legislation and court decisions must conform to its rules.^[167] As of April 2007, there have been 53 amendments. States have their own constitutions, which must not contradict the Federal Constitution.^[168] Municipalities and the Federal District have "organic laws" (leis orgânicas), which act in a similar way to constitutions.^[169] Legislative entities are the main source of statutes, although in certain matters judiciary and executive bodies may enact legal norms.^[15] Jurisdiction is administered by the judiciary entities, although in rare situations the Federal Constitution allows the Federal Senate to pass on legal judgments.^[15] There are also specialized military, labor, and electoral courts.^[15] The highest court is the Supreme Federal Court.

This system has been criticized over the last few decades for the slow pace of decision-making. Lawsuits on appeal may take several years to resolve, and in some cases more than a decade elapses before definitive rulings.^[170] Nevertheless, the Supreme Federal Tribunal was the first court in the world to transmit its sessions on television, and also via YouTube.^[171]^[172] More recently, in December 2009, the Supreme Court adopted Twitter to display items on the day planner of the ministers, to inform the daily actions of the Court and the most important decisions made by them.^[173]

Military

Main article: Brazilian Armed Forces

Brazilian Army participating in UN peacekeeping mission in Haiti.

The armed forces of Brazil are the second largest in Latin America by active personnel and the largest by the level of military equipment.^[174] It consists of the Brazilian Army (including the Army Aviation Command), the Brazilian Navy (including the Marine Corps and Naval Aviation), and the Brazilian Air Force.

The Army has 235,978 active personnel.^[175] The states' Military Police and the Military Firefighters Corps are described as an ancillary forces of the Army by the constitution, but are under the control of each state's governor.^[15] The Navy once operated some of the most powerful warships in the world with the two Minas Geraes-class dreadnoughts, which sparked a South American dreadnought race between Argentina, Brazil, and Chile.^[176] Today, it is a green water force and one of the ten navies that possess an aircraft carrier.^[177] The Air Force has about 700 manned aircraft in service.^[178]

Brazil has not been invaded since 1865 during the Paraguayan War.^[179] Additionally, Brazil has no contested territorial disputes with any of its neighbours^[180] and neither does it have rivalries, like Chile and Bolivia have with each other.^[181]^[182] The Brazilian military has also three times intervened militarily to overthrow the Brazilian government.^[183] It has built a tradition of participating in UN peacekeeping missions such as in Haiti and East Timor.^[184]

Foreign policy

Main article: Foreign relations of Brazil

Diplomatic missions of Brazil

Brazil

Nations hosting a diplomatic mission of Brazil

Nations with a non-resident mission of Brazil

Brazil's international relations are based on Article 4 of the Federal Constitution, which establishes non-intervention, self-determination, international cooperation and the peaceful settlement of conflicts as the guiding principles of Brazil's relationship with other countries and multilateral organizations.^[185] According to the Constitution, the President has ultimate authority over foreign policy, while the Congress is tasked with reviewing and considering all diplomatic nominations and international treaties, as well as legislation relating to Brazilian foreign policy.^[186]

Brazil's foreign policy is a by-product of the country's unique position as a regional power in Latin America, a leader among developing countries, and an emerging world power.^[187] Brazilian foreign policy has generally been based on the principles of multilateralism, peaceful dispute settlement, and non-intervention in the affairs of other countries.^[188]

An increasingly well-developed tool of Brazil's foreign policy is providing aid as a donor to other developing countries.^[189] Brazil does not just use its growing economic strength to provide financial aid, but it also provides high levels of expertise and most importantly of all, a quiet non-confrontational diplomacy to improve governance levels.^[189] Total aid is estimated to be around $1 billion per year that includes:^[189]

technical cooperation of around $480 million ($30 million in 2010 provided directly by the Brazilian Cooperation Agency (ABC))
an estimated $450 million for in-kind expertise provided by Brazilian institutions specialising in technical cooperation

In addition, Brazil manages a peacekeeping mission in Haiti ($350 million) and makes in-kind contributions to the World Food Programme ($300 million).^[189] This is in addition to humanitarian assistance and contributions to multilateral development agencies. The scale of this aid places it on par with China and India and ahead of many western donors.^[189] The Brazilian South-South aid has been described as a "global model in waiting."^[190]

Law enforcement and crime

Main articles: Law enforcement in Brazil and Crime in Brazil

Helicopter of the Federal Police Department.

In Brazil, the Constitution establishes five different police agencies for law enforcement: Federal Police Department, Federal Highway Police, Federal Railroad Police, Military Police and Civil Police. Of these, the first three are affiliated to the federal authorities and the last two subordinate to the state governments. All police forces are the responsibility of the executive branch of any of the federal or estadual powers.^[15] The National Public Security Force also can act in public disorder situations arising anywhere in the country.^[191]

The country still has above-average levels of violent crime and particularly high levels of gun violence and homicide. In 2012, the World Health Organization (WHO) estimated the number of 32 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants, one of the highest rates of intentional homicide of the world.^[192] The number considered tolerable by the WHO is about 10 homicides per 100,000 inhabitants.^[193] However, there are differences between the crime rates in the brazilian states; while in São Paulo the homicide rate registered in 2013 was 10.8 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants, in Alagoas was 64.7 homicides per 100,000 inhabitants.^[194]

Brazil also has high levels of incarceration and the third largest prison population in the world (behind only China and the United States), with an estimated total of approximately 700,000 prisoners around the country (June 2014), an increase of about 300% compared to the index registered in 1992;^[195] the high number of prisoners eventually overloaded the Brazilian prison system, leading to a shortfall of about 200 thousand accommodations in the prison system.^[196]

Administrative divisions

Atlantic Ocean Pacific Ocean North Region Northeast Region Central-West Region Southeast Region South Region Acre Amazonas Pará Roraima Amapá Rondônia Tocantins Maranhão Bahia Piauí Ceará Rio Grande do Norte Paraíba Pernambuco Alagoas Sergipe Mato Grosso Mato Grosso do Sul Federal District Goiás Minas Gerais São Paulo Rio de Janeiro Espírito Santo Paraná Santa Catarina Rio Grande do Sul Argentina Bolivia Chile Colombia French Guiana Guyana Paraguay Peru Suriname Uruguay Venezuela States of Brazil and Regions of Brazil

Main articles: States of Brazil and Municipalities of Brazil

Economy

Main article: Economy of Brazil

Components and energy

Main articles: Agriculture in Brazil, Industry in Brazil and Energy policy of Brazil

P-51, an oil platform of Petrobras.

Brazil's diversified economy includes agriculture, industry, and a wide range of services.^[220] Agriculture and allied sectors like forestry, logging and fishing accounted for 5.1% of the gross domestic product in 2007.^[221] Brazil is one of the largest producer of oranges, coffee, sugar cane, cassava and sisal, soybeans and papayas.^[222]

The industry — from automobiles, steel and petrochemicals to computers, aircraft, and consumer durables— accounted for 30.8% of the gross domestic product.^[221] Industry is highly concentrated in metropolitan São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Campinas, Porto Alegre, and Belo Horizonte.^[223]

Brazil is the world's tenth largest energy consumer with much of its energy coming from renewable sources, particularly hydroelectricity and ethanol; the Itaipu Dam is the world's largest hydroelectric plant by energy generation.^[224] The first car with an ethanol engine was produced in 1978 and the first airplane engine running on ethanol in 2005.^[225] Recent oil discoveries in the Pre-salt layer have opened the door for a large increase in oil production.^[226] The governmental agencies responsible for the energy policy are the Ministry of Mines and Energy, the National Council for Energy Policy, the National Agency of Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels, and the National Agency of Electricity.^[227]

The Itaipu Dam on the Paraná River, located on the border between Brazil and Paraguay, is the second largest of the world (the first is the Three Gorges Dam, in China). Approximately 75% of the Brazilian energy matrix, one of the cleanest in the world, comes from the hydropower.

Tourism

Main article: Tourism in Brazil

Iguazu Falls, Paraná, in Brazil-Argentina border, is the second most popular destination for foreign tourists who come to Brazil for pleasure. The waterfalls are only 20% in the Brazilian side, the rest belonging to Argentina.

Sancho Bay, in Fernando de Noronha Archipelago, Pernambuco, elected the most beautiful beach in the world by TripAdvisor.

Tourism in Brazil is a growing sector and key to the economy of several regions of the country. The country had 5 million visitors in 2010, ranking in terms of international tourist arrivals as the second destination in South America, and third in Latin America after Mexico and Argentina. Revenues from international tourists reached US$6 billion in 2010, showing a recovery from the 2008-2009 economic crisis.^[228] Historical records of 5.4 million visitors and US$6.8 billion in receipts were reached in 2011.^[229]^[230]

Natural areas are its most popular tourism product, a combination of ecotourism with leisure and recreation, mainly sun and beach, and adventure travel, as well as cultural tourism. Among the most popular destinations are the Amazon Rainforest, beaches and dunes in the Northeast Region, the Pantanal in the Center-West Region, beaches at Rio de Janeiro and Santa Catarina, cultural tourism in Minas Gerais and business trips to São Paulo city.^[231]

In terms of the 2011 Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Index (TTCI), which is a measurement of the factors that make it attractive to develop business in the travel and tourism industry of individual countries, Brazil ranked 52nd in the world, 3rd among Latin American countries after Mexico and Costa Rica, and 7th in the Americas.^[232] Brazil's competitive advantages are its natural resources, which ranked 1st on this criteria out of the 139 countries considered, and ranked 23rd for its cultural resources, due to its many World Heritage sites. The TTCI report notes Brazil's main weaknesses: its ground transport infrastructure remains underdeveloped (ranked 116th), with the quality of roads ranking in 105th place; and the country continues to suffer from a lack of price competitiveness (ranked 114th), due in part to high ticket taxes and airport charges, as well as high prices and high taxation. Safety and security have improved significantly: 75th in 2011, up from 128th in 2008.^[232]

Snorkeling in the city of Bonito, Mato Grosso do Sul. The rivers in the region are known for their crystal clear waters.

According to the World Tourism Organization (WTO), international travel to Brazil accelerated in 2000, particularly during 2004 and 2005. However, in 2006 a slow-down took place, and international arrivals had almost no growth in 2007-08.^[233]^[234]^[235] In spite of this trend, revenues from international tourism continued to rise, from USD 4 billion in 2005 to 5 billion in 2007, despite 330 000 fewer arrivals. This favorable trend is the result of the strong devaluation of the US dollar against the Brazilian Real, which began in 2004, but which makes Brazil a more expensive international destination.^[236] This trend changed in 2009, when both visitors and revenues fell as a result of the Great Recession of 2008-09.^[237] By 2010, the industry had recovered, and arrivals grew above 2006 levels to 5.2 million international visitors, and receipts from these visitors reached USD 6 billion.^[228] In 2011 the historical record was reached with 5.4 million visitors and US$6.8 billion in receipts.^[229]^[230]

Despite continuing record-breaking international tourism revenues, the number of Brazilian tourists travelling overseas has been growing steadily since 2003, resulting in a net negative foreign exchange balance, as more money is spent abroad by Brazilians than comes in as receipts from international tourists visiting Brazil. Tourism expenditures abroad grew from USD 5.8 billion in 2006, to USD 8.2 billion in 2007, a 42% increase, representing a net deficit of USD 3.3 billion in 2007, as compared to USD 1.5 billion in 2006, a 125% increase from the previous year.^[238] This trend is caused by Brazilians taking advantage of the stronger Real to travel and making relatively cheaper expenditures abroad.^[238] Brazilians traveling overseas in 2006 represented 4% of the country's population.^[239]

In 2005, tourism contributed with 3.2% of the country's revenues from exports of goods and services, and represented 7% of direct and indirect employment in the Brazilian economy.^[240] In 2006 direct employment in the sector reached 1.9 million people.^[241] Domestic tourism is a fundamental market segment for the industry, as 51 million people traveled throughout the country in 2005,^[242] and direct revenues from Brazilian tourists reached USD 22 billion,^[243] 5.6 times more receipts than international tourists in 2005.

In 2005, Rio de Janeiro, Foz do Iguaçu, São Paulo, Florianópolis and Salvador were the most visited cities by international tourists for leisure trips. The most popular destinations for business trips were São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Porto Alegre.^[244] In 2006 Rio de Janeiro and Fortaleza were the most popular destinations for business trips.

The city of Rio de Janeiro is featured in tourism in Brazil.

Infrastructure

Science and technology

Main article: Brazilian science and technology

National Synchrotron Light Laboratory in Campinas, state of São Paulo, the only particle accelerator in Latin America.

Technological research in Brazil is largely carried out in public universities and research institutes, with the majority of funding for basic research coming from various government agencies.^[245] Brazil's most esteemed technological hubs are the Oswaldo Cruz Institute, the Butantan Institute, the Air Force's Aerospace Technical Center, the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation and the INPE.^[246]^[247] The Brazilian Space Agency has the most advanced space program in Latin America.^[248]

Uranium is enriched at the Resende Nuclear Fuel Factory, mostly for research purposes (as Brazil obtains 88% from its electricity from hydroelectricity^[249]) and the country's first nuclear submarine will be delivered in 2015 (by France).^[250] Brazil is one of the three countries in Latin America^[251] with an operational Synchrotron Laboratory, a research facility on physics, chemistry, material science and life sciences. And Brazil is the only Latin American country to have a semiconductor company with its own fabrication plant, the CEITEC.^[252]

Transport

Main article: Transport in Brazil

Terminal 3 of the São Paulo–Guarulhos International Airport, the busiest airport in the country.

Brazilian roads are the primary carriers of freight and passenger traffic. The road system totaled 1.98 million km (1.23 million mi) in 2002. The total of paved roads increased from 35,496 km (22,056 mi) (22,056 mi) in 1967 to 184,140 km (114,419 mi) (114,425 mi) in 2002.^[253]

Brazil's railway system has been declining since 1945, when emphasis shifted to highway construction. The total length of railway track was 30,875 km (19,185 mi) in 2002, as compared with 31,848 km (19,789 mi) in 1970. Most of the railway system belonged to the Federal Railroad Corporation RFFSA, which was privatized in 2007.^[254] The São Paulo Metro was the first underground transit system in Brazil. The other metro systems are in Rio de Janeiro, Porto Alegre, Recife, Belo Horizonte, Brasília, Teresina and Fortaleza.

There are about 2,500 airports in Brazil, including landing fields: the second largest number in the world, after the United States.^[255] São Paulo-Guarulhos International Airport, near São Paulo, is the largest and busiest airport with nearly 20 million passengers annually, while handling the vast majority of commercial traffic for the country.^[256]

For freight transport waterways are of importance, e.g. the industrial zones of Manaus can be reached only by means of the Solimões- Amazonas waterway (3,250 km (2,019 mi) with 6 meters minimum depth).

Coastal shipping links widely separated parts of the country. Bolivia and Paraguay have been given free ports at Santos. Of the 36 deep-water ports, Santos, Itajaí, Rio Grande, Paranaguá, Rio de Janeiro, Sepetiba, Vitória, Suape, Manaus and São Francisco do Sul are the most important.^[257] Bulk carriers have to wait up to 18 days before being serviced, container ships 36,3 hours on average.^[258]

Health

Main article: Health in Brazil

The Albert Einstein Hospital in São Paulo is one of the most well-known health units in Brazil.

The Brazilian public health system, the National Health System (SUS), is managed and provided by all levels of government.^[259] The public health services are universal and available to all citizens of the country for free. Nevertheless millions of affluent Brazilians have private health care coverage.^[260]

According to the Brazilian Government, the most serious health problems are:^[261]

Childhood mortality: about 2.51% of childhood mortality, reaching 3.77% in the northeast region.
Motherhood mortality: about 73.1 deaths per 100,000 born children in 2002.
Mortality by non-transmissible illness: 151.7 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants caused by heart and circulatory diseases, along with 72.7 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants caused by cancer.
Mortality caused by external causes (transportation, violence and suicide): 71.7 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants (14.9% of all deaths in the country), reaching 82.3 deaths in the southeast region.

In 2002, Brazil accounted for 40% of malaria cases in the Americas.^[262] Nearly 99% are concentrated in the Legal Amazon Region, which is home to not more than 12% of the population.^[262]

Education

Courtyard of the ancient Royal Academy of Artillery, Fortification and Design, the first institution of higher education in Brazil, created in 1792 and forerunner of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ).

Main article: Education in Brazil

The Federal Constitution and the Law of Guidelines and Bases of National Education determine that the Federal Government, States, Federal District and municipalities must manage and organize their respective education systems. Each of these public educational systems is responsible for its own maintenance, which manages funds as well as the mechanisms and funding sources. The constitution reserves 25% of the state budget and 18% of federal taxes and municipal taxes for education.^[263]

According to the IBGE, in 2011, the literacy rate of the population was 90.4%, meaning that 13 million (9.6% of population) people are still illiterate in the country; functional illiteracy has reached 21.6% of the population.^[264] Illiteracy is highest in the Northeast, where 19.9% of the population is illiterate.^[265]

Higher education starts with undergraduate or sequential courses, which may offer different options of specialization in academic or professional careers. Depending on the choice, students can improve their educational background with courses of post-graduate studies or broad sense. To attend a higher education institution is required, by Law of Guidelines and Bases of Education, completing all levels of education suited to the needs of all students of teaching kindergarten, elementary and medium, provided the student does not hold any disability, whether physical, mental, visual or hearing.

Media and communication

President Dilma Rousseff at Jornal Nacional news program. Rede Globo is the second largest commercial television network of the world.^[266]

The Brazilian press has its beginnings in 1808 with the arrival of the Portuguese royal family to Brazil, hitherto forbidden any activity of the press - was the publication of newspapers or books. The Brazilian press was officially born in Rio de Janeiro on 13 May 1808, with the creation of the Royal Printing, National Press by the Prince Regent Dom João.^[267]

The Gazeta do Rio de Janeiro, the first newspaper published in the country, began to circulate on 10 September 1808.^[268] Largest newspapers nowadays are Folha de São Paulo (from the state of São Paulo, Super Notícia (Minas Gerias 296.799), O Globo (RJ 277.876) and O Estado de São Paulo (SP 235.217).^[23]

Radio broadcasting began on 7 September 1922, with a speech by then President Pessoa, and was formalized on 20 April 1923 with the creation of "Radio Society of Rio de Janeiro."^[269]

Television in Brazil began officially on 18 September 1950, with the founding of TV Tupi by Assis Chateaubriand.^[270] Since then television has grown in the country, creating large public networks such as Globo, SBT, Record and Bandeirantes. Today it is the most important factor in popular culture of Brazilian society, indicated by research showing that as much as 67%^[271]^[272] of the general population follow the same daily soap opera broadcast. Digital Television, using the SBTVD standard (based on the Japanese standard ISDB-T), was adopted 29 June 2006 and launched in 2 November 2007.^[273] In May 2010, Brazil launched TV Brasil Internacional, an international television station, initially broadcasting to 49 countries.^[274]

Demographics

Main articles: Demographics of Brazil and Brazilian people

Population density of Brazilian municipalities.

The population of Brazil, as recorded by the 2008 PNAD, was approximately 190 million^[275] (22.31 inhabitants per square kilometre or 57.8/sq mi), with a ratio of men to women of 0.95:1^[276] and 83.75% of the population defined as urban.^[277] The population is heavily concentrated in the Southeastern (79.8 million inhabitants) and Northeastern (53.5 million inhabitants) regions, while the two most extensive regions, the Center-West and the North, which together make up 64.12% of the Brazilian territory, have a total of only 29.1 million inhabitants.

The first census in Brazil was carried out in 1872 and recorded a population of 9,930,478.^[278] From 1880 to 1930, 4 million Europeans arrived.^[279] Brazil's population increased significantly between 1940 and 1970, because of a decline in the mortality rate, even though the birth rate underwent a slight decline. In the 1940s the annual population growth rate was 2.4%, rising to 3.0% in the 1950s and remaining at 2.9% in the 1960s, as life expectancy rose from 44 to 54 years^[280] and to 72.6 years in 2007.^[281] It has been steadily falling since the 1960s, from 3.04% per year between 1950 and 1960 to 1.05% in 2008 and is expected to fall to a negative value of –0.29% by 2050^[282] thus completing the demographic transition.^[283]

In 2008, the illiteracy rate was 11.48%^[284] and among the youth (ages 15–19) 1.74%. It was highest (20.30%) in the Northeast, which had a large proportion of rural poor.^[285] Illiteracy was high (24.18%) among the rural population and lower (9.05%) among the urban population.^[286]

Race and ethnicity

Main article: Race and ethnicity in Brazil

According to the National Research by Household Sample (PNAD) of 2008, 48.43% of the population (about 92 million) described themselves as White; 43.80% (about 83 million) as Pardo (brown), 6.84% (about 13 million) as Black; 0.58% (about 1.1 million) as Asian; and 0.28% (about 536 thousand) as Amerindian (officially called indígena, Indigenous), while 0.07% (about 130 thousand) did not declare their race.^[287]

In 2007, the National Indian Foundation estimated that Brazil has 67 different uncontacted tribes, up from their estimate of 40 in 2005. Brazil is believed to have the largest number of uncontacted peoples in the world.^[288]

Race and ethnicity in Brazil^[289]^[290]^[291]
Ethnicity			Percentage
White			47.7%
Pardo (Multiracial)			43.1%
Black			7.6%
Asian			1.1%
Amerindian			0.4%

Since the arrival of the Portuguese in 1500, considerable miscegenation between Amerindians, Europeans and Africans has taken place, in all regions of the country (with European ancestry being dominant nationwide according to the vast majority of all autosomal studies undertaken covering the entire population, accounting for between 65% to 77%).^[292]^[293]^[294]^[295]

Brazilian society is more markedly divided by social class lines, although a high income disparity is found between race groups, so racism and classism can be conflated. Socially significant closeness to one racial group is taken in account more in the basis of appearance (phenotypes) rather than ancestry, to the extent that full siblings can pertain to different "racial" groups.^[296] Socioeconomic factors are also significant, because a minority of pardos are likely to start declaring themselves White or Black if socially upward.^[297] Skin color and facial features do not line quite well with ancestry (usually, Afro-Brazilians are evenly mixed and European ancestry is dominant in Whites and pardos with a significant non-European contribution, but the individual variation is great).^[295]^[298]^[299]^[300]

The brown population (officially called pardo in Portuguese, also colloquially moreno)^[301]^[302] is a broad category that includes caboclos (assimilated Amerindians in general, and descendants of Whites and Natives), mulatos (descendants of primarily Whites and Afro-Brazilians) and cafuzos (descendants of Afro-Brazilians and Natives).^[301]^[302]^[303]^[304]^[305] People of considerable Amerindian ancestry form the majority of the population in the Northern, Northeastern and Center-Western regions.^[306]

Higher percents of Blacks, mulattoes and tri-racials can be found in the eastern coast of the Northeastern region from Bahia to Paraíba^[305]^[307] and also in northern Maranhão,^[308]^[309] southern Minas Gerais^[310] and in eastern Rio de Janeiro.^[305]^[310] From the 19th century, Brazil opened its borders to immigration. About five million people from over 60 countries migrated to Brazil between 1808 and 1972, most of them of Portuguese, Italian, Spaniard, German, Ukrainian, Polish, Jewish, Russian, Chinese, Japanese and Middle Eastern origin.^[311]

Religion

Main article: Religion in Brazil

Further information: Roman Catholicism in Brazil and Protestantism in Brazil

Religion in Brazil (2010 Census)
Religion			Percent
Roman Catholicism			64.6%
Protestantism			22.2%
No religion			8.0%
Spiritism			2.0%
Others			3.2%

Basilica of the National Shrine of Our Lady of Aparecida in Aparecida do Norte, São Paulo, is the second largest Catholic church in the world.

Religion in Brazil formed from the meeting of the Catholic Church with the religious traditions of enslaved African peoples and indigenous peoples.^[312] This confluence of faiths during the Portuguese colonization of Brazil led to the development of a diverse array of syncretistic practices within the overarching umbrella of Brazilian Catholicism, characterized by traditional Portuguese festivities,^[313] and in some instances, Allan Kardec's Spiritism (most Brazilian Spiritists are also Christians). Religious pluralism increased during the 20th century,^[314] and a Protestant community has grown to include over 22% of the population.^[315] The most common Protestant denominations are Pentecostal, Evangelical, Baptist, Seventh-day Adventist, Lutheran and the reformed churches.

Catholicism is the country's predominant faith. Brazil has the world's largest Catholic population.^[316] According to the 2000 Demographic Census (the PNAD survey does not inquire about religion), 73.57% of the population followed Catholicism; 15.41% Protestantism; 1.33% Kardecist spiritism; 1.22% other Christian denominations; 0.31% Afro-Brazilian religions; 0.13% Buddhism; 0.05% Judaism; 0.02% Islam; 0.01% Amerindian religions; 0.59% other religions, undeclared or undetermined; while 7.35% have no religion.^[317]

However, in the last ten years Protestantism, particularly Pentecostal and Evangelical Protestantism, has spread in Brazil, while the proportion of Catholics has dropped significantly.^[318] After Protestantism, individuals professing no religion are also a significant group, exceeding 7% of the population in the 2000 census. The cities of Boa Vista, Salvador and Porto Velho have the greatest proportion of Irreligious residents in Brazil. Teresina, Fortaleza, and Florianópolis were the most Roman Catholic in the country.^[319] Greater Rio de Janeiro, not including the city proper, is the most Irreligious and least Roman Catholic Brazilian periphery, while Greater Porto Alegre and Greater Fortaleza are on the opposite sides of the lists, respectively.^[319]

Urbanization

Main articles: List of largest cities in Brazil and Municipalities of Brazil

According to IBGE (Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics) urban areas already concentrate 84.35% of the population, while the Southeast region remains the most populated one, with over 80 million inhabitants.^[320] The largest metropolitan areas in Brazil are São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, and Belo Horizonte — all in the Southeastern Region — with 19.5, 11.5, and 5.1 million inhabitants respectively.^[321] The majority of state capitals are the largest cities in their states, except for Vitória, the capital of Espírito Santo, and Florianópolis, the capital of Santa Catarina. There are also non-capital metropolitan areas in the states of São Paulo (Campinas, Santos and the Paraíba Valley), Minas Gerais (Steel Valley), Rio Grande do Sul (Sinos Valley) and Santa Catarina (Itajaí Valley).^[322]

Largest metropolitan areas in Brazil 2014 Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics estimate^[323]
	Rank	Name	State	Pop.	Rank	Name	State	Pop.
São Paulo Rio de Janeiro	1	São Paulo	São Paulo	20,935,204	11	Paraíba Valley	São Paulo	2,430,392	Belo Horizonte Porto Alegre
	2	Rio de Janeiro	Rio de Janeiro	11,973,505	12	Goiânia	Goiás	2,384,560
	3	Belo Horizonte	Minas Gerais	5,767,414	13	Belém	Pará	2,381,661
	4	Porto Alegre	Rio Grande do Sul	4,161,237	14	Manaus	Amazonas	2,360,491
	5	Brasília	Distrito Federal	4,118,154	15	Vitória	Espírito Santo	1,884,096
	6	Salvador	Bahia	3,919,864	16	Santos	São Paulo	1,781,620
	7	Recife	Pernambuco	3,887,261	17	Natal	Rio Grande do Norte	1,462,045
	8	Fortaleza	Ceará	3,818,380	18	São Luís	Maranhão	1,403,111
	9	Curitiba	Paraná	3,414,115	19	Piracicaba	São Paulo	1,195,904
	10	Campinas	São Paulo	3,043,217	20	Joinville	Santa Catarina	1,191,558

Language

Museum of the Portuguese Language in São Paulo, Brazil.

Main articles: Languages of Brazil, Portuguese language, Brazilian Portuguese and List of endangered languages in Brazil

The official language of Brazil is Portuguese^[324] (Article 13 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Brazil), which almost all of the population speaks and is virtually the only language used in newspapers, radio, television, and for business and administrative purposes. The most famous exception to this is a strong sign language law that was passed by the National Congress of Brazil. Legally recognized in 2002,^[325] the law was regulated in 2005.^[326] The law mandates the use of the Brazilian Sign Language, more commonly known by its Portuguese acronym LIBRAS, in education and government services. The language must be taught as a part of the education and speech and language pathology curricula. LIBRAS teachers, instructors and translators are recognized professionals. Schools and health services must provide access ("inclusion") to deaf people.^[327]

Brazilian Portuguese has had its own development, mostly similar to 16th-century Central and Southern dialects of European Portuguese^[328] (despite a very substantial number of Portuguese colonial settlers, and more recent immigrants, coming from Northern regions, and in minor degree Portuguese Macaronesia), with a few influences from the Amerindian and African languages, especially West African and Bantu restricted to the vocabulary only.^[329] As a result, the language is somewhat different, mostly in phonology, from the language of Portugal and other Portuguese-speaking countries (the dialects of the other countries, partly because of the more recent end of Portuguese colonialism in these regions, have a closer connexion to contemporary European Portuguese). These differences are comparable to those between American and British English.^[329]

Brazil is the only Portuguese-speaking nation in the Americas, making the language an important part of Brazilian national identity and giving it a national culture distinct from those of its Spanish-speaking neighbors.^[330]

Pomerode, Santa Catarina, is one of the municipalities with a cooficial language. In this region, Hunsrückisch and Pomeranian, German dialects, are two of the minor languages.

In 1990, the Community of Portuguese Language Countries (CPLP), which included representatives from all countries with Portuguese as the official language, reached an agreement on the reform of the Portuguese orthography to unify the two standards then in use by Brazil on one side and the remaining lusophone countries on the other. This spelling reform went into effect in Brazil on 1 January 2009. In Portugal, the reform was signed into law by the President on 21 July 2008 allowing for a 6-year adaptation period, during which both orthographies will co-exist. The remaining CPLP countries are free to establish their own transition timetables.^[331]

Minority languages are spoken throughout the nation. One hundred and eighty Amerindian languages are spoken in remote areas and a significant number of other languages are spoken by immigrants and their descendants.^[329] In the municipality of São Gabriel da Cachoeira, Nheengatu (a currently endangered South American creole language – or an 'anti-creole', according to some linguists – with mostly Indigenous Brazilian languages lexicon and Portuguese-based grammar that, together with its southern relative língua geral paulista, once was a major lingua franca in Brazil, being replaced by Portuguese only after governmental prohibition led by major political changes), Baniwa and Tucano languages had been granted co-official status with Portuguese.^[332]

There are significant communities of German (mostly the Brazilian Hunsrückisch, a High German language dialect) and Italian (mostly the Talian, a Venetian dialect) origins in the Southern and Southeastern regions, whose ancestors' native languages were carried along to Brazil, and which, still alive there, are influenced by the Portuguese language.^[333]^[334] Talian is officially a historic patrimony of Rio Grande do Sul,^[335] and two German dialects possess co-official status in a few municipalities.^[336]

Learning at least one second language (generally English or Spanish) is mandatory for all the 12 grades of the mandatory education system (primary and secondary education, there called ensino fundamental and ensino médio respectively). Brazil is the first country in South America to offer Esperanto to secondary students.^[337]

Culture

Main article: Culture of Brazil

Interior of the São Francisco Church and Convent in Salvador, Bahia, one of the richest expressions of Brazilian baroque.

The core culture of Brazil is derived from Portuguese culture, because of its strong colonial ties with the Portuguese empire.^[338] Among other influences, the Portuguese introduced the Portuguese language, Roman Catholicism and colonial architectural styles. The culture was, however, also strongly influenced by African, indigenous and non-Portuguese European cultures and traditions.^[339]

Some aspects of Brazilian culture were influenced by the contributions of Italian, German and other European as well Japanese, Jewish and Arab immigrants who arrived in large numbers in the South and Southeast of Brazil.^[340] The indigenous Amerindians influenced Brazil's language and cuisine; and the Africans influenced language, cuisine, music, dance and religion.^[341]

Brazilian art has developed since the 16th century into different styles that range from Baroque (the dominant style in Brazil until the early 19th century)^[342]^[343] to Romanticism, Modernism, Expressionism, Cubism, Surrealism and Abstractionism. Brazilian cinema dates back to the birth of the medium in the late 19th century and has gained a new level of international acclaim since the 1960s.^[344]

Music

Main article: Music of Brazil

Men playing berimbau and pandeiro in a capoeira circle.

The music of Brazil was formed mainly from the fusion of European and African elements.^[345] Until the nineteenth century, Portugal was the gateway to most of the influences that built Brazilian music, although many of these elements were not of Portuguese origin, but generally European. The first was José Maurício Nunes Garcia, author of sacred pieces with influence of Viennese classicism.^[346] The major contribution of the African element was the rhythmic diversity and some dances and instruments that had a bigger role in the development of popular music and folk, flourishing especially in the twentieth century.^[345]

Popular music since the late eighteenth century began to show signs of forming a characteristically Brazilian sound, with samba considered the most typical and on the UNESCO cultural heritage list.^[347] Maracatu and Afoxê are two Afro-Brazilian music traditions that have been popularized by their appearance in the annual Brazilian Carnivals.^[348] The sport of capoeira is usually played with its own music referred to as capoeira music, which is usually considered to be a call-and-response type of folk music.^[349]

Choro is a very popular music instrumental style. Its origins are in 19th-century Rio de Janeiro. In spite of the name, the style often has a fast and happy rhythm, characterized by virtuosity, improvisation, subtle modulations and full of syncopation and counterpoint.^[350] Bossa nova is also a well-known style of Brazilian music developed and popularized in the 1950s and 1960s.^[351] The phrase "bossa nova" means literally "new trend".^[352] A lyrical fusion of samba and jazz, bossa nova acquired a large following starting in the 1960s.^[353]

The Rio Carnival, a type of samba parade.

Literature

Machado de Assis, poet and novelist, founder of the Brazilian Academy of Letters.

Main article: Brazilian literature

Brazilian literature dates back to the 16th century, to the writings of the first Portuguese explorers in Brazil, such as Pêro Vaz de Caminha, filled with descriptions of fauna, flora and commentary about the indigenous population that fascinated European readers.^[354] Brazil produced significant works in Romanticism — novelists like Joaquim Manuel de Macedo and José de Alencar wrote novels about love and pain. Alencar, in his long career, also treated Indigenous people as heroes in the Indigenist novels O Guarany, Iracema, Ubirajara.^[355] Machado de Assis, one of his contemporaries, wrote in virtually all genres and continues to gain international prestige from critics worldwide.^[356]^[357]^[358] The Brazilian Modernism, evidenced by the Week of Modern Art in 1922, was concerned with a nationalist avant-garde literature,^[359] while Post-Modernism brought a generation of distinct poets like João Cabral de Melo Neto, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Vinicius de Moraes, Cora Coralina, Graciliano Ramos, Cecília Meireles, and internationally known writers dealing with universal and regional subjects like Jorge Amado, João Guimarães Rosa, Clarice Lispector and Manuel Bandeira.^[360]^[361]^[362]

Cuisine

Main article: Brazilian cuisine

Sports

Main article: Sport in Brazil

Ayrton Senna, one of the biggest names in F1 history.

The most popular sport in Brazil is football.^[370] The Brazilian men's national team is ranked among the best in the world according to the FIFA World Rankings, and has won the World Cup tournament a record five times.^[371]

Volleyball, basketball, auto racing, and martial arts also attract large audiences. The Brazil men's national volleyball team, for example, currently holds the titles of the World League, World Grand Champions Cup, World Championship and the World Cup.

Stamp commemorating the victory of the Brazilian team at the 1970 FIFA World Cup. Football is the most popular sport in the country.

Some sport variations have their origins in Brazil: beach football,^[372] futsal (indoor football)^[373] and footvolley emerged in Brazil as variations of football. In martial arts, Brazilians developed Capoeira,^[374] Vale tudo,^[375] and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.^[376] In auto racing, three Brazilian drivers have won the Formula One world championship eight times.^[377]^[378]^[379]

Brazil has hosted several high-profile international sporting events, like the 1950 FIFA World Cup^[380] and recently has hosted the 2014 FIFA World Cup.^[381] The São Paulo circuit, Autódromo José Carlos Pace, hosts the annual Grand Prix of Brazil.^[382]

São Paulo organized the IV Pan American Games in 1963, and Rio de Janeiro hosted the XV Pan American Games in 2007.^[383] On 2 October 2009, Rio de Janeiro was selected to host the 2016 Olympic Games and 2016 Paralympic Games, making it the first South American city to host the games^[384] and second in Latin America after Mexico City. Furthermore, the country hosted the FIBA Basketball World Cups in 1954 and 1963. At the 1963 event, the Brazil national basketball team won one of its two world championship titles.^[385]

National holidays

Date	Local name	Name	Observation
1 January	Confraternização Mundial	New Year's Day	Beginning of the calendar year
21 April	Tiradentes	Tiradentes	In honor of the martyr of the Minas Conspiracy
1 May	Dia do Trabalhador	Labor Day	Tribute to all workers
7 September	Independência	Independence of Brazil	Proclamation of Independence against Portugal
12 October	Nossa Senhora Aparecida	Nossa Senhora Aparecida	Patroness of Brazil
2 November	Finados	Souls	Day of remembrance for the dead
15 November	Proclamação da República	Proclamation of the Republic	Transformation Empire in Republic
25 December	Natal	Christmas	Traditional Christmas celebration

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Portuguese overseas empire

North Africa

15th century

1415–1640	Ceuta
1458–1550	Alcácer Ceguer (El Qsar es Seghir)
1471–1550	Arzila (Asilah)
1471–1662	Tangier
1485–1550	Mazagan (El Jadida)
1487–16th century	Ouadane
1488–1541	Safim (Safi)
1489	Graciosa

16th century

1505–1541	Santa Cruz do Cabo de Gué (Agadir)
1506–1525	Mogador (Essaouira)
1506–1525	Aguz (Souira Guedima)
1506–1769	Mazagan (El Jadida)
1513–1541	Azamor (Azemmour)
1515	São João da Mamora (Mehdya)
1577–1589	Arzila (Asilah)

Sub-Saharan Africa

15th century

1455–1633	Anguim
1462–1975	Cape Verde
1470–1975	São Tomé¹
1471–1975	Príncipe¹
1474–1778	Annobón
1478–1778	Fernando Poo (Bioko)
1482–1637	Elmina (São Jorge da Mina)
1482–1642	Portuguese Gold Coast
1508–1547²	Madagascar³
1498–1540	Mascarene Islands

16th century

1500–1630	Malindi
1501–1975	Portuguese Mozambique
1502–1659	Saint Helena
1503–1698	Zanzibar
1505–1512	Quíloa (Kilwa)
1506–1511	Socotra
1557–1578	Accra
1575–1975	Portuguese Angola
1588–1974	Cacheu⁴
1593–1698	Mombassa (Mombasa)

17th century

1645–1888	Ziguinchor
1680–1961	São João Baptista de Ajudá
1687–1974	Bissau⁴

18th century

1728–1729	Mombassa (Mombasa)
1753–1975	Portuguese São Tomé and Príncipe

19th century

1879–1974	Portuguese Guinea
1885–1975	Portuguese Congo

¹ Part of São Tomé and Príncipe from 1753.
² Or 1600.
³ A factory (Anosy Region) and small temporary coastal bases.
⁴ Part of Portuguese Guinea from 1879.

Southwest Asia

16th century

1506–1615	Gamru (Bandar Abbas)
1507–1643	Sohar
1515–1622	Hormuz (Ormus)
1515–1648	Quriyat
1515–?	Qalhat
1515–1650	Muscat
1515?–?	Barka
1515–1633?	Julfar (Ras al-Khaimah)
1521–1602	Bahrain (Muharraq • Manama)
1521–1529?	Qatif
1521?–1551?	Tarut Island
1550–1551	Qatif
1588–1648	Matrah

17th century

1620–?	Khor Fakkan
1621?–?	As Sib
1621–1622	Qeshm
1623–?	Khasab
1623–?	Libedia
1624–?	Kalba
1624–?	Madha
1624–1648	Dibba Al-Hisn
1624?–?	Bandar-e Kong

Indian subcontinent

15th century

1498–1545

Laccadive Islands
(Lakshadweep)

16th century
Portuguese India

• 1500–1663	Cochim (Kochi)
• 1501–1663	Cannanore (Kannur)
• 1502–1658 1659–1661	Quilon (Coulão / Kollam)
• 1502–1661	Pallipuram (Cochin de Cima)
• 1507–1657	Negapatam (Nagapatnam)
• 1510–1961	Goa
• 1512–1525 1750	Calicut (Kozhikode)
• 1518–1619	Portuguese Paliacate outpost (Pulicat)
• 1521–1740	Chaul

	(Portuguese India)
• 1523–1662	Mylapore
• 1528–1666	Chittagong (Porto Grande De Bengala)
• 1531–1571	Chaul
• 1531–1571	Chalé
• 1534–1601	Salsette Island
• 1534–1661	Bombay (Mumbai)
• 1535	Ponnani
• 1535–1739	Baçaím (Vasai-Virar)
• 1536–1662	Cranganore (Kodungallur)
• 1540–1612	Surat
• 1548–1658	Tuticorin (Thoothukudi)
• 1559–1961	Daman and Diu
• 1568–1659	Mangalore

	(Portuguese India)
• 1579–1632	Hugli
• 1598–1610	Masulipatnam (Machilipatnam)

1518–1521	Maldives
1518–1658	Portuguese Ceylon (Sri Lanka)
1558–1573	Maldives

17th century
Portuguese India

• 1687–1749

Mylapore

18th century
Portuguese India

• 1779–1954

Dadra and Nagar Haveli

East Asia and Oceania

16th century

1511–1641	Portuguese Malacca
1512–1621	Maluku
• 1522–1575	Ternate
• 1576–1605	Ambon
• 1578–1650	Tidore
1512–1665	Makassar
1537–1999	Macau
1571–1639	Decima (Dejima / Nagasaki)

17th century

1642–1975

Portuguese Timor (East Timor)¹

19th century
Portuguese Macau

• 1864–1999	Coloane
• 1849–1999	Portas do Cerco
• 1851–1999	Taipa
• 1890–1999	Ilha Verde

20th century
Portuguese Macau

• 1938–1941

Lapa and Montanha (Hengqin)

¹ 1975 is the year of East Timor's Declaration of Independence and subsequent invasion by Indonesia. In 2002, East Timor's independence was fully recognized.

North America and the North Atlantic Ocean

15th century

1420	Madeira
1432	Azores

16th century

1500–1579?	Terra Nova (Newfoundland)
1500–1579?	Labrador
1516–1579?	Nova Scotia

Central and South America

16th century

1500–1822	Brazil
• 1534–1549	Captaincy Colonies of Brazil
• 1549–1572	Brazil
• 1572–1578	Bahia
• 1572–1578	Rio de Janeiro
• 1578–1607	Brazil
• 1621–1815	Brazil
1536–1620	Barbados

17th century

1621–1751	Maranhão
1680–1777	Nova Colónia do Sacramento

18th century

1751–1772	Grão-Pará and Maranhão
1772–1775	Grão-Pará and Rio Negro
1772–1775	Maranhão and Piauí

19th century

1808–1822	Cisplatina (Uruguay)
1809–1817	Portuguese Guiana (Amapá)
1822	Upper Peru (Bolivia)

Geographic locale

Lat. and Long. 15°45′S 47°57′W / 15.750°S 47.950°W / -15.750; -47.950 (Brasilia)

Colombia

Venezuela •

Suriname

Guyana •

French Guiana

Atlantic Ocean

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Bolivia •

Peru

Atlantic Ocean

Brazil

Argentina •

Paraguay

Uruguay • Atlantic Ocean

Atlantic Ocean

Countries and dependencies of South America

Sovereign states

Entire	Argentina Bolivia Brazil Chile Colombia Ecuador Guyana Paraguay Peru Suriname Trinidad and Tobago Uruguay Venezuela

In part	France French Guiana Netherlands Aruba Bonaire Curaçao

Dependencies

Falkland Islands / South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
- UK

International membership

Community of Portuguese Language Countries (CPLP)

Category

Membership

Members	Angola Brazil Cape Verde East Timor Equatorial Guinea Guinea-Bissau Mozambique Portugal São Tomé and Príncipe

Observers	Georgia Japan Mauritius Namibia Senegal Turkey

Organization

ACOLOP
- Lusophony Games
Portuguese-using countries

Union of South American Nations

Member states	Argentina Bolivia Brazil Chile Colombia Ecuador Guyana Paraguay Peru Suriname Uruguay Venezuela

Summits	2004 2008 2009 Ecuador 2009 Argentina 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014

Topics	Cusco Declaration Constitutive Treaty President Pro Tempore Secretary General Bank of the South South American Parliament Initiative for Infrastructure Integration of South America Mercosur Andean Community

Mercosur · Mercosul

(Southern Common Market)

Treaties	Treaty of Asunción Protocol of Ouro Preto

Members	Argentina Brazil Paraguay Uruguay Venezuela

Currencies	Argentine peso Brazilian real Paraguayan guaraní Uruguayan peso Venezuelan bolívar Gaucho

Associates	Bolivia Chile Colombia Ecuador Peru

Observers	Mexico New Zealand

Institutions	Parliament

Organization of American States (OAS)

Members

Antigua and Barbuda Argentina Barbados Brazil Belize Bahamas Bolivia Canada Chile Colombia Costa Rica Dominica Dominican Republic Ecuador El Salvador Grenada Guatemala Guyana Haiti Honduras Jamaica Mexico Nicaragua Panama Paraguay Peru St. Lucia St. Vincent and the Grenadines St. Kitts and Nevis Suriname Trinidad and Tobago United States Uruguay Venezuela

Suspended	Cuba

Organization

Politics

Group of Eight (G8) and Group of Eight + Five (G8+5)

G8 members	Canada France Germany Italy Japan Russia United Kingdom United States

Representative	European Union

G8+5	Brazil China India Mexico South Africa

See also	Group of Six Group of Seven G7+1

Group of Twenty (G-20)

Argentina Australia Brazil Canada China European Union France Germany India Indonesia Italy Japan Mexico Russia Saudi Arabia South Africa Republic of Korea Turkey United Kingdom United States

Nations in the Group of 15 (G-15)

Summits	1990 1991 1992 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2004 2006 2010 2012

Members	Algeria Argentina Brazil Chile Egypt India Indonesia Iran Jamaica Kenya Malaysia Mexico Nigeria Senegal Sri Lanka Venezuela Zimbabwe

Membership

Current	Rousseff Putin Modi Xi Zuma

Past	Lula Medvedev Singh Hu

Arab League

Arab League
Lists

Politics

Membership

Members	Algeria Bahrain Comoros Djibouti Egypt Iraq Jordan Kuwait Lebanon Libya Mauritania Morocco Oman Palestine Qatar Saudi Arabia Somalia Sudan Tunisia United Arab Emirates Yemen

Observers	Brazil Eritrea India Turkey Venezuela

Suspended	Syria

Candidates	Chad South Sudan

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Union of Arab National Olympic Committees
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