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Brazil; Brazilian; South America Capital: Brasilia Language: Portuguese Largest city: Sao Paulo Second largest city: Rio de Janeiro (Rio) BRIC: first used by Jim O’Neill, a Goldman Sachs economist in 2001. (Brazil, Russia, India, China. BRICS: + South Africa) Football: won the World Cups five times (most successful) Carnival 嘉年华 [an annual festival held during the Friday to the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday, which marks the beginning of Lent, the forty-day period before Easter.] Samba Rio: Christ the Redeemer; a giant statue of Jesus Christ (statue: the Statue of Liberty); has the world’s largest Catholic population (73% follow Catholicism) Amazon Rainforest World’s largest producer of coffee for 150 yrs