Brazil’s Geography

Megan Lenzen and Adelaide Hellmuth

Map and Flag

Map of Brazil.

• http://cache.virtualtourist.com/739575-Political_map_of_Brazil-Brazil.jpg

Flag of Brazil.•http://www.wikieducator.org/images/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Brazil.svg/720px-Flag_of_Brazil.svg.png

Brazil’s Hemisphere and Country

• Belongs to the southern and western hemispheres.

• It is located in Southern America.

Brazil’s Relative Location and Population Ranking

• The relative location is North of Antarctica, East of Africa, Southof North America, and West of

Asia.• Brazil’s capital is - Brasilia• Brazil’s world population

ranking is 198,739,269 as of July 2009 est.

http://www.edinformatics.com/travel/map_brazil.jpg

Brasilia’s absolute location and Time zone

• Brasilia’s (Brazil’s Capital) absolute location is 10 degrees 0’ 0”S and 55 degrees 0’ 0” W

• The time zone of Brazil and St. Louis at noon-

Brazil St.

Louis 3:00 pm 12:00

am

Places of InterestSao Paulo

http://www.carnaval.com/cityguides/brazil/sao_paulo/Sao_Paulo.jpg

Santa Catarinahttp://www.beachbumparadise.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/Santa-Catarina-Brazil-300x225.jpg

Sao Paulo is the largest city in Brazil and 7th largest metropolitan area.

Santa Catarina is a state in Brazil that is famous for its beaches.

• WikiAnswers". january 1,2010 <http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_hemisphere_does_Brazil_belong

• CIES.com". january 1,2010 <http://www.cies.org/award_book/award2010/country/WesBraBR.htm>

• "buzzle.com". january 1,2010 <http://www.buzzle.com/articles/brazils-famous-places.html>.

• "The World Factbook". 2-1-10 <https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2119rank.html>.

• "About.com: South America Travels". New York Times. 2-1-10 <http://gosouthamerica.about.com/cs/southamerica/a/BraBrasilia.htm>.

• "travelmath". 2-1-10 <http://www.travelmath.com/country/Brazil>. • "World time zone". 2-1-10

<http://www.worldtimezone.com/index24.html>. • "wikipedia". february2,2010

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Catarina_(state)>. • Wikipedia". february 2, 2010 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S

%C3%A3o_Paulo>. • The front pages picture -

http://www1.american.edu/ted/ice/images4/AmazonRiver.jpg

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