It’s almost February, and here at Mommy Maleta, we are ready to unpack our 2nd suitcase – this time in South America. We are on letter B, so let’s have a big round of applause for warm & sunny, soccer (football) loving & home to the 2014 World Cup country of…BRAZIL!
This summer when you watch The World Cup, a worldwide soccer (better known as football around the world) competition, look for faces painted green and yellow. They will most likely be Brazilian soccer fans cheering for their country. You can see the green and yellow country colors in the flag below.
The Brazilian Flag
Brazil Country Facts
- Brazil is the largest country on the continent South America. It is the 5th largest country in the world, both by land area and population. (Do you remember the 6th largest country? Hint: we’ve been there already) It also has one of the largest economies in the world.
- Population: Nearly 200 million (worldpopulationstatistics.com Sept. 23, 2013)
- Capital City: Brasilia Largest City: Sao Paolo
- Religion: Roman Catholic 64.6%, Protestantism 22.2%, No Religion 8%, Other Religions 5.2% (Wikipedia 2010) Brazil has the 2nd highest Christian population in the world.
- Currency: The Real
- Brazil is home to the biggest rain forest in the world. It is called the Amazon Rain Forest.
- The Amazon River, the second largest river in the world after the Nile, flows through Brazil.
- Brazil covers three time zones and shares a border with every country in South America except for Ecuador and Chile.
- Brazil has won the World Cup (world soccer championships) five times.
- The Christ Redeemer statue is located in Brazil. It is one of the New 7 Wonders of the World.
- There are around 2500 airports in Brazil.
- Brazil is home to a wide range of animals including armadillos, tapirs, jaguars and pumas.
Tapirs can be found in Brazil
Did you know that tapirs are a relative of the rhinoceros? Find out more about tapirs and post a comment below to let me, and our other friendly followers, know what you learned.
I never knew so much about tapirs, until I read your site. Thanks! I had no idea that they were dangerously being hunted. I also didn’t know that they are pregnant for a year! WOW!
I learned that tapirs are related to the rhinoceros!
We like the tapirs nose. Didn’t know they ate at night. Also didn’t know they are hunted as source of food.
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Hi Mandy Thanks for checking out my blog. If you are interested in keeping with my purpose of educating young readers about the world through geography, language and culture, then I welcome your review. If you have any questions contact me at mommymaleta@gmail.com.
This is so informative! I never knew that Brazil was the 5 largest country in the world. I love the idea you came up with of doing country information! Very cool!
Thanks so much. I’m glad you are enjoying my blog and learning at the same time!
Are you using Little Passports? I love that program! I tutored a little boy in geography last school year and we used the Little Passports program, which was an overwhelming success. He looked forward to getting his new packages in the mail, and discovering where Sam and Sofia had been. I definitely plan on using the program with my daughter when she is ready.
I’m glad to hear the positive feedback on Little Passports. My oldest daughter “met” Sam & Sofia in 2nd grade and was very excited, along with my younger daughter, when we received our suitcase this past December. I will be writing a product review on Little Passports in the near future so stay tuned. And please link through my site when you join Little Passports. Thx!
So many fun facts! I learned that for 2 days every 2-3 months, the female Brazilian tapir is able to conceive.
Thanks for the informative post! I didn’t know that about tapirs!
What an interesting idea for a blog! Love this – keep the awesome information coming!
Thank you for this information. Now I know more about Brazil:)
I’ve known many missionaries to Brazil and find the country interesting.
I’ve used Little Passports with my youngest son and love them. I sure wish we had done a blog out our travels. We may have to start one after seeing your blog.
I wish I had documented a lot of more of my travels as well, but I am thankful that I have been able to just live and enjoy these worldwide experiences and can now process much of it as I write my blog posts.
This is a bookmarker indeed. With a grandson who is just about the right age for needing this kind of information and a computer with skype, I can lead him over to discuss your posts in more detail. Thanks for the additional links for information
You are very welcome. I hope you and your grandson enjoy Mommy Maleta! If you make any of the crafts or recipes, please write back & send photos to let me know how they turn out.
What a great website and post….! A wealth of info to help educate children on the countries of the world! I am pinning the website for future use. Thanks!
Thanks for pinning! I hope you’ll visit again soon!
Great info – my kids love learning about other countries, so I’ll be sharing these facts with them.
So glad to hear your kids enjoy learning about other countries. I hope they continue to explore the world at Mommy Maleta!
Brazil has always been on my must-visit list. Someday, I’ll get there. And the World Cup!! Thanks for sharing
I hope you have a wonderful trip to Brazil whenever it may be!
Funnily enough, I actually did know that tapirs are related to rhinos! I volunteered at the San Francisco Zoo for two years (over 800 hours!), and learned many things, knowledge which I passed onto zoo visitors. Some of the things visitors did not know really surprised me! Particularly when adults thought a white bear pelt must be a grizzly bear, while their children as young as 5-years-old knew it was a polar bear right away!
My mother made an effort to make sure we knew something about world history, and different cultures around the world when I was growing up. So I actually knew about everything on the list already, except for the fact that Brazil had won the World Cup so many times! That’s very impressive. I think this is a very well-balanced list of facts, sharing plenty of interesting info tidbits. Thanks for sharing!
What a great experience working at the San Francisco zoo! And how great of your mother to instill an appreciation for world history and cultures in your life. You’ll have to make her some Brazilian Brigadeiros or Australian Anzac Biscuits for her for Mother’s Day!
Having a 4th grader and 6th grader, this will come in handy. I loved the recipe for Brazil. Yes, I had to go check it out. Thank you for the nice easy to read layout.
Send me a photo of the Brigadeiros after you make them and let me know how they turn out!
How cute are those tapirs!
What a great idea ! I look forward to reading your future posts.
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This is wonderful. So happy to be introduced to your blog through Blogelina. I’m about to follow you on social media. I had actually never even heard of the Tapir, that I can recall. I also did not know that Brazilian currency was referred to as the Real.
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How fun! I always enjoy reading about other countries. We lived in Turkey for two years because of the military and I really hope we get to travel more in the near future. I would LOVE to go Brazil one day. Just looks so beautiful there. Thank you for the great info!
-Stacey
Turkey! That is a country I would like to visit. I hope you do get to travel more in the near future. Email me a photo if you make it to Brazil!
Very informative! I would love to travel to South America and Brazil has always intrigued me. The Christ the Saviour statue is something my husband and I would love to see. I think it’s interesting that an animal in Brazil is related to an animal in Africa; I feel like I’m ready for an episode of Jeopardy! 🙂
If you do make it to Brazil please send me a photo of The Christ the Saviour Statue! I’ll post it for all the Mommy Maleta readers. And quick, just to practice for Jeoparday…here’s your clue…an animal found in Brazil that is related to the rhinoceros…(make sure you answer in the form of a question!)
This is great. We are part of a homeschool coop that meets monthly and we take 1 continent per month. We are doing Europe this year so I hope you continue to add countries b/c I would send the kids here for research if our countriees get covered.
PS Love the font for comments
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Thank you so much for sharing! My hubs and I just watched a documentary about a horrific plane crash that happened in Brazil. It’s one of the many countries that I’ve always wanted to travel to.
Oh, I feel bad about the plane crash, but I’m glad you still want to visit Brazil! Be sure to email a photo if you get there!
I love posts of this type – so informative – and yours is beautiful. I love the pictures and all the facts you listed. I didn’t know much about Brazil before reading this – so I thank you much for expanding my knowledge today in such an awesome way! 😀
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I had to laugh because this was a great post for me. My best friend’s partner is from Brazil and he is always talking about the country, and the World Cup. I feel I have some knowledge now, and of course, we hope to visit one day when the kids are older. Thanks for sharing.
Tell him to check out my Brazil series. I would love to know what he thinks about it!
Wow! These facts broken down make it easy to separate Brazil from many of its other neighbors in South America.
Thank you for making this fun–I most definitely will be peppering these facts into our conversation when we watch soccer!
You’re welcome. Make sure to check out my 3rd post in the Brazil series as well. You can make your own table top soccer game!
Brazil — We actually talked a lot about Brazil when the movie Rio came out. Rio 2 is just around the corner… a perfect excuse to brush up on my trivia 🙂
Jennifer @ The Jenny Evolution
What a fun post! I loved learning a little bit more about Brazil ~ I only wish I could visit!
I would love to go to Brazil. I hope some day I will get to travel more. Thanks for sharing!
Oh, I would love to go to Brazil!! 🙂 Thanks for the info!
How fun! I love learning facts about places. We’re studying South America in our homeschool right now and loving it. We just learned that Chile is as long as the US from coast to coast. Thought that was pretty neat.
What great timing! I didn’t realize Chile is as long as the U.S. from coast to coast. Thx for teaching me!
Tapirs look awesome, never heard of them before. Thanks for sharing
Great post. Lots of info. I had no idea that Brazil was the 5th largest country in the world.
Very nice post. I homeschooled my two boys, so posts like this were always helpful.
I homeschool also and I think that my kids, well at least my 8 year old would love to do something like this. It’s a fun way to learn about geography!
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Wow! This is so cool I really like the trivia.
So glad you like it!
This was a very informative post! I have several friends that served religious missions in Brazil, but I must admit I didn’t know very much about the country prior to reading this. Thanks!!
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