Brazil Country in South America

Brazil, an astronomical South American country, stretches from the Amazon Basin in the north to vineyards and massive Iguaçu Falls in the south. Rio de Janeiro, designated by its 38m Christ the Redeemer statue atop Mt. Corcovado, is famed for its diligent Copacabana and Ipanema beaches as well as its cyclopean, raucous Carnival festival, featuring parade floats, flamboyant costumes and samba.

Brazil officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: República Federativa do Brasil, About this sound heedfully auricularly discern (help·info)), is the most immensely colossal country in both South America and the Latin American region. It is the world's fifth most immensely colossal country, both by geographical area and by population. It is the most immensely colossal Portuguese-verbalizing country in the world, and the only one in the Americas.

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

Brazil was inhabited by numerous tribal nations prior to the landing of peregrinator Pedro Álvares Cabral in 1500, who claimed the area for Portugal. Brazil remained a Portuguese colony until 1808, when the capital of the imperium 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 Cumulated Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves. Its independence was achieved in 1822 with the engenderment of the Imperium 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, albeit 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.The Federation is composed of the coalescence of the Federal District, the 26 states, and the 5,570 municipalities.

The country's economy is the world's eighth most immensely colossal by nominal and seventh most sizably voluminous by GDP (PPP) as of 2015. A member of the BRIC group, Brazil until 2010 had one of the world's most expeditious growing major economies, with its economic reforms giving the country incipient international apperception and influence. Brazil's national development bank plays a consequential role for the country's economic magnification. Brazil is a founding member of the Coalesced Nations, the G20, BRICS, Unasul, Mercosul, Organization of American States, Organization of Ibero-American States, CPLP and the Latin Coalescence. Brazil is a regional power in Latin America and a middle power in international affairs, with some analysts identifying it as an emerging ecumenical puissance. Brazil has been the world's most astronomically immense engenderer of coffee for the last 150 years.