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    Brazil is the largest country in South America, covering nearly half the continent. It has a population of over 200 million people and is one of the most ethnically diverse and bio diverse countries in the world. Brazil has a large economy based around agriculture including coffee, soybeans, and beef, as well as natural resources like iron ore extracted from the Amazon Rainforest, which is threatened by deforestation.

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    Brazil is the largest country in South America, covering nearly half the continent. It has a population of over 200 million people and is one of the most ethnically diverse and bio diverse countries in the world. Brazil has a large economy based around agriculture including coffee, soybeans, and beef, as well as natural resources like iron ore extracted from the Amazon Rainforest, which is threatened by deforestation.

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    Brazil is the largest country in South America, covering nearly half the continent. It has a population of over 200 million people and is one of the most ethnically diverse and bio diverse countries in the world. Brazil has a large economy based around agriculture including coffee, soybeans, and beef, as well as natural resources like iron ore extracted from the Amazon Rainforest, which is threatened by deforestation.

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    Brazil is the largest country in South America, covering nearly half the continent. It has a population of over 200 million people and is one of the most ethnically diverse and bio diverse countries in the world. Brazil has a large economy based around agriculture including coffee, soybeans, and beef, as well as natural resources like iron ore extracted from the Amazon Rainforest, which is threatened by deforestation.

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    BRAZIL FACTS!!!

    Brazil is the largest country in South America and covers nearly half (47%) of the South American continent. It is currently the fifth largest economy in the world is home to the Amazon Rainforest and is a popular location for tourism. Brazil is also rich in natural resources and active in world issues such as climate change. Brazil has 13 cities with over one million residents. Brazil's literacy rate is 86.4% which is the lowest of all South American countries. It falls just behind Bolivia and Peru at 87.2% and 87.7%, respectively. Brazil is a diverse country with ethnic groups including: 54% European, 39% mixed European-African, 6% Africa, 1% other. Today, Brazil has one of the largest economies in the Americas and is the largest in South America. 8) Brazil's most common agricultural exports today are coffee, soybeans, wheat, rice, corn, sugarcane, cocoa, citrus and beef. The natural resources, which include: iron ore, tin, aluminum, gold, phosphate, platinum, uranium, manganese, copper and coal. These are found when they cleared the rainforest they dig mines. After this process, the miners take out the resources and these are then sold. Brazil is considered one of the most bio diverse places in the world because its rainforests are home to more than 1,000 bird species, 3,000 fish species and many mammals and reptiles such as alligators, freshwater dolphins and manatees. The rainforests in Brazil are being cut at a rate of up to four percent per year due to logging, ranching and slash and burn agriculture. Pollution of the Amazon River and its tributaries is also a threat to the rainforests.

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