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The Amazon River is the second longest river in the world and the world’s largest river by volume.

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The Amazon Jungle has the greatest biodiversity on the planet.

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Brazil has 64 national parks and more than 200 conservation units. One of the interesting parks – Lencóis Maranhenses National Park is home to sand dunes that are formed by wind and ocean currents. The dunes can reach heights of 40 meters.

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Brazil has the fifth largest population in the world estimated to be over 200 million people.

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There are 13 cities with more than one million people in Brazil.

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Sao Paulo has over 11 million residents and Rio de Janeiro over six million.

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Brazil boasts the seventh largest economy in the world, just behind the UK and just ahead of Russia. Canada is number 11.

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Brazil has the largest lusophone population in the world. What’s a lusophone? A lusophone is a Portuguese speaker. Why lusophone ; because the Roman province of Lusitania covered most of Portugal.

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The Portuguese spoken in Brazil is evidently most similar to that spoken in the 16th century.

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Indigenous people have inhabited Brazil for thousands of years and there are 180 languages spoken.