Brazil Land

With an area of over 8,500,000 sq. km, Brazil is the world’s fifth largest nation, covering about 47% of South America’s continental area and sharing borders with all South American countries except Chile and Ecuador. Within its boundaries there are an extremely diverse collection of biomes, from dense rainforest to semiarid savanna, from mountains to rolling plains. The 26 states of Brazil (and the Distrito Federal, seat of the federal government) are conventionally divided into five regions: North, Northeast, Southeast, South, and Center-West. Each of these regions contains a unique physical environment and distinct ecosystem. The two types of geographical areas that take up the majority of Brazil’s landmass are the Amazon Basin (which has an area of 4,000,000 sq. km) and the Central Highlands (a plateau south of the Amazon River, most of which consists of tablelands varying in altitude from 300 to 500m). The Southeast is the most populated region, and most Brazilians live on the Atlantic coastal strip.

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