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BRAZIL
República Federativa do Brasil or Federatice Republic of Brazil, or what we usually call Brazil is the biggest state in South America and the world’s fifth largest country by its Geographic and Population, with a total area of 8,515,767.049 km2 (3,287,956 sq mi), including 55,455 km2 (21,411 sq mi) of water, with over 190 million people. A country where world cup was held in 2014 is located between Andes and Atlantic Ocean. Brazil is famous with Sao Paulo, its capital city, Rio de Janeiro, and its biodiversity such as Amazon Rainforest (Jaguar, Puma, Red Piranha, etc). Country whose mother tongue is Portuguese is the largest coffee producer. (BBC World - Latin America) Brazil’s official currency is Brazilian real (R$). About 2/3 of the population in Brazil are Roman Catholics, but in recent decades the Roman Catholics fell from 95% to 64.6% to 2.6% to 22.2%. Brazil has unique culture and has many advantages some sector such as tourism, agriculture, bio-fuel, mining, manufacturing and labor.
The Brazilian culture is one of the world’s most varied and diverse. There are so much kind of Brazil culture especially the art from dances, music, sport. The other culture that Brazil has was the popular culture such as folklore and television.
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It has become a big role in the formation for the contemporary Brazilian popular culture. It was introduced in 1950 by Assis Chateaubriand and remains the country's most important element of mass media that showed the telenovelas as the marking feature in Brazilian television, usually the show being broadcast in prime time on most major television networks. The other popular culture in Brazil was the Brazilian folklore; it includes many stories, legends, dances, superstitions and religious rituals. Characters include the Boitatá, the BotoCor-de-Rosa, the Saci and the BumbaMeuBoi, which has spawned the famous June festival in Northern and Northeastern

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