Covering an area of over 8.5 million square kilometers, Brazil is the world's fifth largest country. Europeans. principally Portuguese, mixed with descendants of African slaves Brazilian Indians and Asiatic immigrants make up its current population of 190 million; mainly Roman Catholic, Brazil is the largest Roman Catholic country in the world... This is a lighthearted, friendly people who - apart from religious traditions - cultivate festivities such as Carnival, with its samba in Rio de Janeiro and frevo in the North, midyear bonfire fests coplete with fireworks and square-dancing, wine festivals in te grape-growing regions of the South, and New Year celebrations rich with macumba voodoo symbols.

The country is divided into various regions: North, Northeast, Centerwest, Southeast and South.
On 21 April 1500, Portuguese navigator Pedro Alvares Cabral Landed at Porto Seguro on the coast of the State of Bahia. This date is celebrated as the day of the discovery of the country that was to be called Brazil, due to a flame-colored wood -pau-brasil- found along the coastline.

From 1549 onwards, the town of Salvador da Bahia was the nation's first capital, to be succeeded by Rio de Janeiro in (1763) and Brasilia in (1960).
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