{"id":45909,"date":"2026-02-21T11:05:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T05:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=45909"},"modified":"2026-02-21T12:47:51","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T07:17:51","slug":"brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/brazil\/","title":{"rendered":"Key Facts about Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Brazil Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, the Union Agriculture Minister held bilateral meeting with Brazil counterparts to deepen India\u2013Brazil cooperation in agriculture and allied sectors<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Brazil<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Location:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It is located in the central-eastern part of <\/span><b>South America.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Bordering Countries:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It shares its <\/span><b>borders with all South American<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> countries <\/span><b>except Chile and Ecuador.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Argentina and Paraguay (Southwest), Bolivia and Peru (West), Columbia (Northwest), and Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana (North).<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Bordering Water body: It<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> borders the <\/span><b>Atlantic Ocean.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It occupies almost half of the continent&#8217;s landmass and is <\/span><b>dissected by<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> both the <\/span><b>Equator and the Tropic of Capricorn.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Capital City:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Brasilia<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>Geographical Features of Brazil<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Major physiographic zones:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It includes <\/span><b>the Brazilian Highlands, the Amazon Rainforest<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and the <\/span><b>Pantanal Wetlands.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Major Rivers<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Amazon, S\u00e3o Francisco River and Iguacu River.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Highest Peak:<\/b> <b>Pico da Neblina<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (2,999 m) is Brazil\u2019s tallest mountain.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Natural Resources:<\/b> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It mainly consists of iron ore, tin, copper, pyrochlore and bauxite.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Amazon Basin:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It is the <\/span><b>world\u2019s largest river basin<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, spans across <\/span><b>Brazil, Peru, Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Bolivia, Guyana, and Suriname.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is home to the <\/span><b>Amazon Rainforest,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the largest tropical forest in the world.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2230721&amp;reg=3&amp;lang=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PIB<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brazil is located in the central-eastern part of South America. 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