Brasil

Más allá de la capital, las principales ciudades son São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Salvador — cada una un centro de cultura regional, economía e historia. Brasília was carved from the cerrado savanna in just 41 months and inaugurated in 1960 — a modernist utopia designed by Oscar Niemeyer and Lúcio Costa whose alien curves and rational grid planning remain either the 20th century's greatest urban experiment or its most grandiose failure, depending on who you ask.

El idioma oficial es portugués, que refleja el patrimonio cultural del país y lo conecta con una amplia comunidad internacional. Internacionalmente, Brasil se contacta mediante el código +55. Brazilian culture forged a genuinely hybrid identity from Portuguese colonisers, enslaved Africans, indigenous nations, and waves of Japanese, Italian, German, and Lebanese immigrants — producing the world's largest Japanese community outside Japan and a samba tradition rooted in Angolan candomblé ceremony.

Brasil comparte sus fronteras con Argentina, Guyana, Surinam, Uruguay, Venezuela, Perú, Bolivia, Colombia y 2 países más. El tráfico rodado circula por la derecha, en consonancia con la convención de

La vida económica y cotidiana se rige por la zona horaria de UTC-05:00, alineando el país con sus vecinos regionales.

Feijoada, a black bean stew with pork slow-cooked and served with rice, farofa, and orange slices, emerged from the slave quarters of Brazilian plantations and is now consumed across class lines every Saturday — a national dish whose origins are disputed but whose social function as a communal meal is unchallenged.

Brazil has won the FIFA World Cup five times, but football's grip on the national psyche goes deeper than statistics — Pelé's 1970 team is widely considered the greatest ever assembled, and the 1950 Maracanazo defeat by Uruguay in the World Cup final in Rio remains a national trauma discussed across generations.

The Amazon rainforest covers 60% of Brazil and contains 10% of all species on Earth — a biosphere so complex that scientists estimate less than 10% of its species have been formally identified, with new large animals including a previously unknown species of giant river dolphin discovered as recently as 2014.