Electronic Music, Brasil

Brazil, whose official name is the Federative Republic of Brazil (in Portuguese, República Federativa do Brasil), is a sovereign country in South America that comprises the eastern half of the continent and some groups of small islands in the Atlantic Ocean. It is the largest country of Latin America. With an area estimated at more than 8.5 million km², it is the fifth largest country in the world in total area (equivalent to 47% of the South American territory). Bounded by the Atlantic Ocean to the east, Brazil has a coastline of 7,491 km.To the north it borders the French overseas department of French Guiana, Suriname, Guyana and Venezuela, to the northwest with Colombia, to the west with Peru and Bolivia, to the southwest with Paraguay and Argentina, and to the south with Uruguay: In this way, it has a border with all the countries of South America, except Ecuador and Chile. radical in much of its territory. The Amazon rainforest covers 3.6 million km² of the territory. Thanks to its vegetation and climate, it is one of the countries with the most animal species in the world.

The region of present-day Brazil, until then inhabited by indigenous people, had its first contact with Europeans in the year 1500 AD. C. through a Portuguese expedition led by Pedro Álvares Cabral. After the Treaty of Tordesillas, the Brazilian territory was the segment of the American continent that corresponded to the kingdom of Portugal, from which it obtained its independence on September 7, 1822. Thus, the country went from being a central part of the kingdom of Portugal to an empire to finally become a republic. Its first capital was Salvador de Bahía, which was replaced by Rio de Janeiro until a new capital, Brasilia, was built. Its current constitution, formulated in 1988, defines Brazil as a presidential federative republic. The federation is made up of the union of the Federal District, the 26 states and the 5,570 municipalities.

Despite the fact that its more than 215 million inhabitants make Brazil the seventh most populous country in the world, it has a low population density index. This is due to the fact that most of the population is concentrated along the coast, while the interior of the territory is still marked by enormous demographic gaps. The official and most widely spoken language is Portuguese, which makes it the largest Portuguese-speaking country in the world. For its part, the religion with the most followers is Catholicism, being the country with the largest number of nominal Catholics in the world. Brazilian society is considered a multiethnic society as it is made up of European, indigenous, African and Asian descendants.

The Brazilian economy is the largest in South America, Latin America and the southern hemisphere, the eleventh largest in the world by nominal GDP and the eighth largest by purchasing power parity (PPP).2021 It is considered a middle-income economy. -high by the World Bank and a newly industrialized country, which has the highest proportion of global wealth in Latin America due to abundant oil and various minerals easily found in the country. However, its abundant wealth is highly concentrated, making the country in one of the most unequal countries in the world, the richest 10% of its population received 54% of the national income in 2018. As a regional and medium power, the nation has international recognition and influence, being that it is also classified as an emerging global power and as a potential superpower by various analysts.