3. Basic Information:
Capital Brasília
Largest city São Paulo
Official language Portuguese
Government Federal Presidential Representative Democratic Republic
Area 8,514,877 km² (5th)
Population 190,732,694 (5th)
Monetary unit Real
4. Brazilian Regions:
North
• The North Region of Brazil is the largest
Region of Brazil;
• It is the least inhabited of the country,
and contributes with a minor percentage in
the national GDP and population;
•Its main feature is the Amazon rainforest.
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6. Brazilian Regions:
Northeast
• The Northeastern states are different
from the rest of Brazil;
• The population is more heavily African
and mestizo, the cuisine is spicier, the
weather hot and dry;
•The barren areas called sertão are more
desert-like than tropical since they get rain
for only a short time each year.
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8. Brazilian Regions:
Middle -west
•Brazil's national capital, Brasília, is
situated in this region;
•Today, Middle-West is attracting many
investments for
agriculture, pecuary, industries and people
from Southeast and Southern Brazil.
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10. Brazilian Regions:
South
•This is the wealthiest region of Brazil. It
has the highest standard of living in the
country;
• Large numbers of European immigrants
have settled here (mainly of
German, Italian, and Slavic);
•The south is also the coldest region of
Brazil.
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12. Brazilian Regions:
Southeast
•The Southeast is the most populous and
economically powerful of the country’s
regions;
•It is the cultural and economic hub of the
country, and contains three of the four
largest cities: São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro,
and Belo Horizonte;
•Its economy is based on machinery, the
automobile and aviation industries,
services, financial companies, commerce,
textiles, orange growing, sugar cane and
coffee production.
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14. Brazilian Culture:
Language
•The official language of Brazil is
Portuguese;
•It is spoken by about 99% of the
population;
•There are only some Amerindian groups
Machado de Assis and small pockets of immigrants who do
not speak Portuguese.
Paulo Coelho Guimarães Rosa Clarice Lispector
15. Brazilian Culture:
Religion
Distribution of the Brazilian population
according to their religions and faiths. •Three in every four Brazilians are Roman
Catholics;
Population Proportion
Religion
(million) (%)
•Catholicism was introduced and spread
Roman
Catholicism
122 68% largely by the Portuguese Jesuits, who
arrived in Brazil in 1549 during the
Protestantism 20 12.4% colonization with the mission of converting
No religious
the Indigenous people.
23 15.4%
affiliation
Spiritism 8 3.3%
Afro-Brazilian
0.3%
Religions
The Basilica of the
National Shrine of Our
Other religions 1.7%
Lady of Aparecida is the
second largest in the
world (Aparecida – SP)
17. HELLO – OI
GOOD MORNING – BOM DIA
GOOD AFTERNOON – BOA TARDE
GOOD EVENING – BOA NOITE
GOOD BYE – TCHAU
SEE YOU – VEJO VOCÊ
18. Brazilian Culture:
Religion
•In recent decades Brazilian society has
witnessed a rise in Protestantism.
•There are also significant minorities of
Spiritists, Jews, Muslims, followers of Afro-
Brazilian religions (such as Umbanda and
Candomblé) and Buddhists.
19. Brazilian Culture:
Race and ancestry
•Brazil was a colony of Portugal for over
three centuries;
•The native inhabitants of Brazil had much
contact with the colonists. Many were
exterminated, others mixed with the
Portuguese;
•Immigrants from
Italy, Germany, Spain, Japan and the
Middle East played an important role in the
areas they settled (mostly Southern and
Southeastern Brazil).
20. Brazilian Culture:
Race and ancestry
•Black Africans, who were brought as
slaves to Brazil, also participated actively
in the formation of Brazilian culture.
•Some regions of Brazil, especially Bahia,
have particularly notable African
inheritances in music, cuisine, dance and
language
21. Brazilian Culture:
Cuisine
•Brazil's cuisine is as varied as its geography
and culture;
•Feijoada is the country's national dish;
•Cachaça is the Brazil's native
liquor, distilled from sugar cane, and it is
the main ingredient in the national
drink, the Caipirinha.
22. Brazilian Culture:
Cuisine
•Brazil has a variety of candies that are
traditionally used for birthdays, like
brigadeiros ("brigadiers") and beijinhos
("kissies");
•Other foods typically consumed in Brazilian
parties are
Coxinhas, Churrasco, Sfihas, Empanada
s, Pine nut (in Festa Junina);
•Specially in the state of Minas Gerais, are
produced and consumed the famous
cheese bun.
23. Brazilian Culture:
Parties and Holidays:
•Carnival: is the most famous holiday in Brazil and has become an
event of huge proportions. The country stops completely for almost a
week and festivities are intense, day and night, mainly in coastal cities.
24. Brazilian Culture:
Parties and Holidays:
•Boi Bumbá Festival: presents myths, tales and legends using
characters, parade carts and giant puppets followed by the words of a
master of ceremonies who describes in detail every bit of the action. It
happens specially in the North region.
25. Brazilian Culture:
Parties and Holidays:
•Festa Junina: introduced by the Portuguese during the colonial period
(1500-1822), is celebrated nationwide but is particularly associated with
Northeastern Brazil.
26. Brazilian Culture:
Music:
• Samba: is among the most popular music genres in Brazil. It
developed from the mixture of Brazilian and African rhythms brought by
slaves in the colonial period and originated in the state of Bahia;
•Bossa nova: is a style of Brazilian music that originated in the late
1950s. It gained worldwide popularity with the song Garota de Ipanema;
•MPB: It presents many variations and includes elements of styles that
range from Samba to Rock music;
•Sertanejo: is the most popular genre in Brazilian mainstream media
since the 1990s. It presents a heavy influence from American country
music.
•Forró: It remains a very popular music style, particularly in the
Northeast region, and is danced in forrobodós (parties and balls)
throughout the country.
27. Brazilian Culture:
Folklore:
• Brazilian folklore includes many
stories, legends, dances,
superstitions and religious rituals.
Characters include the Boitatá,
the Boto Cor-de-Rosa, the Saci
and the Bumba Meu Boi.
28. Brazilian Culture:
Capoeira:
• It is a Brazilian art form that
combines elements of martial
arts, sports, and music.
•Capoeira is known by quick and
complex moves, using mainly
power kicks and quick leg
sweeps, with some ground and
aerial acrobatics, knee
strikes, take-downs, elbow
strikes, punches and head butts.
29. Brazilian Culture:
TV and Cinema:
•Brazilian biggest network, Rede Globo, is the fourth largest
commercial network in the world, and is one of the largest television
exporters around the world, particularly of telenovelas, which have
become popular in many countries.
•Brazilian cinema was introduced early in the 20th century but took
some time to consolidate itself as a popular form of entertainment.
31. Brazilian famous cities:
Florianópolis:
• The city is located in an island in the Atlantic Ocean in the southern
state of Santa Catarina, with lakes, lagoons, amazing nature and more
than 40 clean, beautiful, natural beaches.
32. Brazilian famous cities:
Salvador:
• The first capital of Brazil is home to a unique blend of
indigenous, African and European cultures. The influence of African
culture and religion is remarkable.
34. Brazilian famous cities:
Rio de Janeiro:
•World famous, beautiful city that welcomes visitors with that big statue
of an open-armed Jesus atop Corcovado Hill.
36. Sport in Brazil:
•The Brazilian are very
involved in sports. Football
is the most popular sport in
Brazil;
• One of the most influential
Brazilian football players is
Pelé, widely considered as
the best football player of all
time;
•Brazil, was selected to host
the 2016 Olympic Games
and the 2014 World Cup.
37. Brazilian politics:
•Brazil is a federal presidential representative
democratic republic;
•The President is both head of state and head of
government;
•Brazilian current president is Dilma Rousseff, the
first woman to command the country.
38. Brazilian Economy:
•Brazil is the largest national economy in Latin America, the world's
fifth largest economy, according to the International Monetary Fund
and the World Bank;
•Major export products include aircraft, electrical
equipment, automobiles, ethanol, textiles, footwear, iron
ore, steel, coffee, orange juice, soybeans and corned beef;
39. Brazilian Health System:
•The healthcare in Brazil is provided by both private and government
institutions;
•The advent of the Unified Health System increased access to health
care for a substantial proportion of the Brazilian population, at a
time when the system was becoming increasingly privatized;
•Brazilian AIDS awareness campaigns are world famous.
Albert Einstein Hospital
40. Brazilian Education System:
•Education in Brazil is divided in stages
that are accessible and somewhat
mandatory to everyone (elementary
and secondary school) and those that
are not mandatory or require a previous
selection (pre-school, technical school
and higher education);
•In addition to providing USP
education, universities promote
research and provide stand-alone
classes to the community.
41. Brazilian Education System:
Main problems:
•Lack of teachers who want to work in
that area;
•Constant cases of robbery and violence;
•Many students drop out of school
because they have to start working
earlier to increase the family income;
•The level of pregnant teenagers is very
high.
42. Brazilian transport System:
•Roads are the primary carriers of
freight and passenger traffic;
•Coastal shipping links separated parts
of the country;
•Air transportation is highly developed;
•Embraer, a Brazilian company, is one
of the largest aircraft manufacturers in
the world.
43. Brazilian Tour:
•The mixture of races has made Brazil a culturally rich and at the
same time unique country. This miscegenation began with the
Indian, the African and the Portuguese, but soon after, immigrants
from around the world began to arrive.
44. Brazilian Tour:
•Getting here: Many people arrive by air as well and Brazil has
international airports all over the country.
•Because of this massive diversity, Brazil is one of the last places on
Earth where no one is a foreigner and every Brazilian has a little of
the entire world in his or her blood.
45. Brazilian Youth:
•Brazilian youth represents
most of our expectations for a
better future;
•On the other hand, young
Brazilians are affected by the
poverty of their families, the
social inequality, the lack of
basic social services and so on;
•The main solution for these
problems is to provide
education and opportunities
that are still missing.
46. Brazilian Curiosities:
Brazil's name was inspired from a tree, called “pau-brasil”, from which a red resin was
extracted and used to dye fabrics
Toilet paper waste is usually not dispensed in the toilet bowl, but in a small basket or
trash/rubbish bin provided in the bathroom instead.
Brazil is a founding member of the United Nations and the G20.
The Amazon River is the largest in the world in terms of water volume.
The Marajo Island is the largest fluvial island in the world, it is by the Amazon River delta, and
it is located in the north of Brazil with an area approximately of 40.150km²
In Brazil it's very common to live with your parents until getting married. Unless you go to
study in another. Generally you will not be considered to be a loser for living with your
parents.
Kissing upon greeting is common, except in work environments.
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48. Brazil, you simply won’t want to leave…
Clara Loreine Andrade Rodrigues – Campo Grande, MS
Daniel de Lima Freitas – São Paulo, SP
Francisco Ítalo Albuquerque de Souza – Sobral, CE
Igor Vilela Brum – Juiz de Fora, MG
Jorge de Alencar Palomares – Cuiabá, MT
Késia Priscila da Silva Nunes – Mossoró, RN
Laís Barbosa Amorim – Rio de Janeiro, RJ
Rafael de Oliveira Pena Neto – Santa Helena de Goiás, GO
Thalles Henrique Oliveira Ribeiro – Inhapim, MG
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