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Flag of Brazil  Geography of Brazil


Location:
 Eastern South America, bordering the Atlantic Ocean
Geographic coordinates:
 10 00 S, 55 00 W
Map references:
 South America
Area:
 total: 8,511,965 sq km land: 8,456,510 sq km water: 55,455 sq km note: includes Arquipelago de Fernando de Noronha, Atol das Rocas, Ilha da Trindade, Ilhas Martin Vaz, and Penedos de Sao Pedro e Sao Paulo
Area - comparative:
 slightly smaller than the US
Land boundaries:
 total: 16,885 km border countries: Argentina 1,261 km, Bolivia 3,423 km, Colombia 1,644 km, French Guiana 730 km, Guyana 1,606 km, Paraguay 1,365 km, Peru 2,995 km, Suriname 593 km, Uruguay 1,068 km, Venezuela 2,200 km
Coastline:
 7,491 km
Maritime claims:
 territorial sea: 12 nm contiguous zone: 24 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm continental shelf: 200 nm or to edge of the continental margin
Climate:
 mostly tropical, but temperate in south
Terrain:
 mostly flat to rolling lowlands in north; some plains, hills, mountains, and narrow coastal belt
Elevation extremes:
 lowest point: Atlantic Ocean 0 m highest point: Pico da Neblina 3,014 m
Natural resources:
 bauxite, gold, iron ore, manganese, nickel, phosphates, platinum, tin, uranium, petroleum, hydropower, timber
Land use:
 arable land: 6.93% permanent crops: 0.89% other: 92.18% (2005)
Irrigated land:
 29,200 sq km (2003)
Total renewable water resources:
 8,233 cu km (2000)
Freshwater withdrawal (domestic/industrial/agricultural):
 total: 59.3 cu km/yr (20%/18%/62%) per capita: 318 cu m/yr (2000)
Natural hazards:
 recurring droughts in northeast; floods and occasional frost in south
Environment - current issues:
 deforestation in Amazon Basin destroys the habitat and endangers a multitude of plant and animal species indigenous to the area; there is a lucrative illegal wildlife trade; air and water pollution in Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, and several other large cities; land degradation and water pollution caused by improper mining activities; wetland degradation; severe oil spills
Environment - international agreements:
 party to: Antarctic-Environmental Protocol, Antarctic-Marine Living Resources, Antarctic Seals, Antarctic Treaty, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Environmental Modification, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Tropical Timber 83, Tropical Timber 94, Wetlands, Whaling signed, but not ratified: none of the selected agreements
Geography - note:
 largest country in South America; shares common boundaries with every South American country except Chile and Ecuador

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