Capital: Brasilia

Continent: South America

Location: Eastern South America, bordering the Atlantic Ocean

Climate: mostly tropical, but temperate in south

Population: 188,078,227

Languages: Portuguese (official), Spanish, English, French

Religions: Roman Catholic (nominal) 73.6%, Protestant 15.4%, Spiritualist 1.3%, Bantu/voodoo 0.3%, other 1.8%, unspecified 0.2%, none 7.4% (2000 census)

Currency: real