Brazil

The Federative Republic of Brazil (República Federativa do Brasil in Portuguese) is the largest and most populous country in Latin America, and the fifth largest in the world. Spanning a vast area between central South America and the Atlantic Ocean, it borders Uruguay, Argentina, Paraguay, Bolivia, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, France (French Guiana) — every South American nation except for Ecuador and Chile. Named after brazilwood, a tree highly valued by early colonists, Brazil is home to both extensive agricultural lands and rain forests. Exploiting vast natural resources and a large labor pool, it has the biggest GDP in South America (10th in the world) and is today South America's leading economic power and a regional leader. Portuguese is the national language of Brazil.

External links

Government, Administration, Economy & Politics

• Library of Congress: A Country Study: Brazil
• Banco Central do Brasil - Central Bank of Brazil (in Portuguese/English)
• Brasil.gov.br - Official governmental portal (in Portuguese)
• Câmara dos Deputados - Official Chamber of Deputies site (in Portuguese)
• Economic Survey of Brazil 2005
• Fome Zero - Official site of Fome Zero (zero hunger) programme (in Portuguese)
• Ministério do Meio Ambiente - Ministry of the Environment of Brazil (in Portuguese)
• Presidência da República - Official presidential site (in Portuguese)
• Senado Federal - Official senatorial site (in Portuguese)
• Supremo Tribunal Federal - Supreme Federal Court (in Portuguese)
• Superior Tribunal de Justiça - Superior Court of Justice (in Portuguese)
• Ministério das Relações Exteriores - Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Português/English/Español)
• Consular Corps of Brazil - Official Website of CC Brazil (English)

Information, Media, Statistics

• Brasil-Post (in German)
• Brazilink - Selected and updated sources by experts (in English)
• IBGE - Brazilian Institute for Geography and Statistics (English, Español, Português)
• Jornal do Brasil - Brazilian newspaper (in Portuguese)
• Mapa Fácil - Online maps of more than 5000 Brazilian cities (in Portuguese)
• National Library (in Portuguese and English)
• O Eco - Journalistic website on the environmental issues of Brazil (in Portuguese)
• O Globo- Online version of a famous Brazilian newspaper (in Portuguese)
• O Estado de São Paulo- Site of important brazilian newspaper (in portuguese)
• Folha de São Paulo- seconde brazilian important newspaper (in portuguese)
• São Paulo Convention & Visitors Bureau (in Portuguese and English)

Brazilian Television

• - The first channel in Brazil
• SBT- The second channel in Brazil
• Record- Important brazilian channel
• Band- Important brazilian channel

Society, Social Movements, etc.

• Movimento dos trabalhadores rurais sem terra
• Human Rights Watch
• Amnesty International

Art, Cooking, Culture, History, Travel

• Alternative Brazil Travel info in English
• Brazil Travel Guide (in English)
• Ceará and Fortaleza tourism information (in Portuguese)
• Dutch Portuguese Colonial HistoryDutch Portuguese Colonial History: history of the Portuguese and the Dutch in Ceylon, India, Malacca, Bengal, Formosa, Africa, Brazil. Language Heritage, lists of remains, maps.
• EasyPortuguese-- Learn the Portuguese spoken in Brazil.
• Ethnologue Languages of the World - Languages of Brazil
• Maria-Brazil - The first Brazilian pop-culture web site produced in the USA. Note: The section Maria's Cookbook is widely praised (site in English)
• Recife and Porto de Galinhas tourism information (in Portuguese)
• Photos of People and Sights
• Rio For Partiers - Award winning travel guide to Rio de Janeiro and Salvador
• sonia-portuguese Learning Portuguese
• The Brazilian Sound Brazilian music & culture (in English)
• Travelling in Brazil (in English)
• Porto Seguro Bahia tourism information (in Portuguese)
• Virtual Brazil - Information about Brazilian culture, economy and tourism (in English)
• Viva Brasil! All about Brazilian Culture
• Hy-Brazil Origins of the name Brazil