Top 10 Most Interesting Facts About Brazil 

Here is the collection of Top 10 Most Amazing Facts About Brazil :-

1. Largest country in South America

Brazil is the largest country in South America and the fifth largest nation in the world. Brazil's border touches all countries on the South American continent except Chile and Ecuador. It forms an enormous triangle on the eastern side of the continent with a 7,400-kilometer coastline along the Atlantic Ocean. The Brazilian landscape is very varied. It is most well known for its dense forests but also include dry grasslands, rugged hills, pine forests, sprawling wetlands, immense plateaus, and a long coastal plain.

2. About 250 languages are spoken in Brazil

There are about 228 languages spoken in Brazil. These include Portuguese and 11 other foreign or immigrant languages, as well as 217 indigenous languages. Portuguese is by far the most widely spoken language in Brazil with 97.9% of the population speaking it as their primary language. Brazil is the only predominantly Portuguese-speaking country in South America. Most of indigenous languages spoken in northern Brazil. Today, there are only about 10,000 to 40,000 native speakers of these languages. Many of these languages have survived over the years and are still in use today, including Ticuna, Kaingang and Kaiwá Guarani. Nheengatu was the common language of many indigenous people in Brazil, and was also spoken by Africans, Europeans, and African-descended people on the coast. German is the second most widely spoken language in Brazil. Although German speakers make up only about 1.9% of the population. English is the most frequently learned and spoken foreign language in Brazil, followed by Spanish.

3. Brazil has 4 time zones

There are four standard time zones in Brazil. They are, from west to east: Acre Time (ACT), Amazon Time (AMT), Brasília Time (BRT), and Fernando de Noronha Time (FNT).

Brasília Time (BRT) is the time zone used on the east coast of Brazil and is considered the main time zone in the country. Around 90% of Brazil's population lives in the BRT time zone. It covers 21 of Brazil's 27 states, including the metropolitan areas Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo.

4. Biggest carnival in the world

Carnival is the most popular holiday in Brazil. Rio`s Carnival is even registered as the biggest carnival in the world, with five million people per day on the streets. The Carnival of Brazil is an annual Brazilian festival held the Friday afternoon before Ash Wednesday at noon, which marks the beginning of Lent, the forty-day period before Easter. Rio hosted the first carnival in the year 1723. The most important part of the carnival is the samba parade. Parade involves dance, music and loads of fun. Brazilians drink thousands and thousands of litres of beer during carnival.

5. 70 uncontacted tribes

Uncontacted peoples are groups of indigenous peoples living without sustained contact to neighbouring communities and the world community. Amazon has been inhabited by indigenous groups for at least 11,200 years and that before the arrival of Europeans in the 16th Century.

6. Largest exporter of coffee

Brazil has been dominating the global coffee market for over 150 years. Brazil produces about a third of the world's coffee, making the country the world's largest producer of coffee. Coffee plantations covers some 27,000 km² area. Coffee plantations is mainly located in the south-eastern states of Minas Gerais, São Paulo and Paraná. Two main types of coffee beans are Arabica and Robusta. Brazil is also the number 1 coffee exporter, contributing to one-third of the world’s total coffee production every year. Americans actually import 22% of all coffee exports from Brazil, with Germany at number 2 at a shade over 18%, and Italy rounding it out for Brazilian coffee exports at 9.5%. 

7. Around 60% of the Amazon Rainforest

While it covers 2.6 million square miles across nine countries including Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana, about 60 percent of the Amazon Basin is in Brazil, 

8. Home to the largest population of Japanese people outside Japan

Brazil is home to the largest Japanese population outside Japan. They began arriving in Brazil at the start of the 20th century. The first group of Japanese immigrants arrived in Brazil in 1908. The end of feudalism in Japan generated great poverty in the rural population, so many Japanese began to emigrate in search of better living conditions. There are approximately 1.6 million Japanese-Brazilians living in São Paulo, making it the largest concentration of individuals of Japanese descent outside of Japan. The Japanese community in São Paulo quickly concentrated in the central neighborhood of Liberdade, where house prices were the cheapest.

9. Brazil's name comes from the pau-brasil

Pau brasil is a national tree of Brazil, and a natural resource that played an important role in the economic development and history of the nation. Brazil was discovered in 1500 by the Portuguese explorer Pedro Álvares Cabral, who landed near the present day city of Santa Cruz de Cabralia in the state of Bahia. At that time, pau brasil was plentiful in the coastal forests of Brazil. They recognized the tree as similar to those in Europe that produce a red dye named pau brasil. The following export of the tree in huge numbers led to the country being named after the species. pau brasil is translated into English as the Brazil tree.

10. Country with the most plant and animal species in the world

Brazil is the most biologically diverse country in the world. It is classified at the top among the world’s 17 megadiverse countries, and second only to Indonesia in terms of species endemism. Brazil is home to 60% of the Amazon Rainforest, which accounts for approximately one-tenth of all species in the world. It contains two biodiversity hotspots, six terrestrial biomes and three large marine ecosystems. At least 103,870 animal species and 43,020 plant species are currently known, comprising 70% of the world’s animal and plant species. It has the 55,000 species of plants, 3000 species of freshwater fish, 689 species of mammals, 1,832 bird species and 744 reptile species. Brazil’s biodiversity is ever-expanding, with an average of 700 new animal species discovered each year. The wild animals found in Brazil are the maned wolf, bush dog, hoary fox, short-eared dog, the jaguar, the puma, the margay, the ocelot, the oncilla, several varieties of sloths and armadillos, coati, giant river otter, tapir, peccaries, marsh deer, Pampas deer, and capybara.