Geography
That, with a total area of 8,547,403 square kilometers (3,286,170 square miles), Brazil is the fifth largest country in the world? All of Europe could fit inside Brazil. Brazil is 28 times bigger than Italy.

Population
Brazil has the fifth largest population in the world. 40% of the population of Latin America is Brazilian. There are 23 million Italians and descendants of Italians in Brazil and that in São Paulo there are 5 million descendants of Italians, which means there are more Italians in São Paulo than in Rome. It is estimated that the percentage of the population below the poverty line presently is 16%, and that by 2005 that number is expected to fall to 10%.

Transportation
Brazil has the world's eighth largest fleet of vehicles, behind only the United States, Japan, Germany, Italy, France and Great Britain.

History
During the Second World War Brazil sent 25,000 soldiers to Italy to fight the Nazi-Fascists. That 500 of them died fighting in Italy defending democracy. In Pistoia, Italy, there is a cemetery for those Brazilian soldiers.

Climate
Brazil is not only a tropical country, like everyone thinks, but that, in the South Region, the average annual temperature is 18 degrees Celsius (64.4 F). Iit snows in some states of this region.

Communications
By 2005, there will be 60 million cell phones in operation and that, currently, there are already 20 million in use, compared to 5.6 million in July of 1998. In 1994, the country had less than a million cell phones; in 1998, they totaled 5.6 million and that today there are 23.2 million cell phones, or in other words, an expansion of 310% in only 2 years.

In 1994, Brazil had 13 million fixed phone lines and, by the end of 2000, this number reached 38.3 million.

Brazil is ranked 9th among the nations that most use the Internet, with 10.9 million people online - losing only to USA, Japan, Germany, Great Britain, China, Canada, South Korea and Italy.61% of Latin American web sites are Brazilian?

Brazilian television was the 4th of the world to go on the air daily, after the United States, Great Britain and France.

TV Globo is the world's 4th largest television network, surpassed only by the three largest American networks (ABC, CBS and NBC).

The transmission facilities of the Radio Nacional in Brasilia is the fifth largest in the world, and the largest in Latin America.

Electricity
The world's biggest hydroelectric power plant is Itaipu. That Brazil is the world's 12th biggest electricity producer