Brazil

[Area] 8,510,300 square kilometers (Source: IBGE).

[Population] 203 million, ranking first in Latin America and seventh in the world. Caucasians account for 53.74%, mulattoes 38.45%, blacks 6.21%, and yellows and Indians 1.6% of the population. The official language is Portuguese. About 50% of the inhabitants are Catholics and 31% are Evangelical Christians.

[Capital] Brasília, with a population of 3.858 million (2022) and an average annual temperature of 21℃.

[Brief description] of the city] Brasília is located in eastern South America. It borders French Guiana, Suriname, Guyana, Venezuela, and Colombia to the north, Peru and Bolivia to the west, Paraguay, Argentina, and Uruguay to the south, and the Atlantic Ocean to the east. The coastline is about 7,400 kilometers long. Eighty percent of the country is in the tropics, and the southernmost part has a subtropical climate. The northern Amazonian plains have an equatorial (tropical) rainforest climate, with an average annual temperature of 27-29 degrees Celsius. The central plateau has a tropical grassland climate, with two seasons of drought and rain and an average annual temperature of 18-28℃. The southern part of the average annual temperature is 16-19 ℃.

On April 22, 1500, Portuguese navigator Pedro Cabral arrived in Brazil. 16th century 30, a Portuguese expedition was sent to establish a colony in Brazil, and the governor was appointed in 1549. In 1808, Napoleon invaded Portugal, and the royal family relocated to Brazil. 1821, the Portuguese royal family relocated back to Lisbon, and Prince Pedro stayed in Brazil as the regent. 1822, September 7, Prince Pedro proclaimed independence and established the Brazilian empire. 1889, the Portuguese royal family moved back to Lisbon, and Prince Pedro stayed in Brazil as the regent. On November 15, 1889, General Fonseca staged a coup d'état to overthrow the empire and establish the United States of Brazil.

On March 31, 1964, a military coup d'état brought the country to power, a dictatorship was imposed, and the country was renamed the Federative Republic of Brazil (Federative Republic of Brazil) in 1967. in January 1985, the opposition party won an indirect presidential election, ending the military rule. 1989 saw the first general elections held as a universal direct election. In October 2002, Lula, the candidate of a coalition of left-wing parties led by the Labor Party, won the election and became Brazil's first directly elected left-wing president. In October 2006, Lula won a second term in office. In October 2010, Dilma Rousseff won the election as a candidate of the Labor Party, becoming the first female president in Brazil's history, and won a second term in office in October 2014. On May 12, 2016, President Rousseff was convicted of murder and sentenced to three years' imprisonment. President Rousseff temporarily left office on May 12, 2016, due to an impeachment case. Vice President Temer became acting president and formed an interim government. On August 31, 2016, Congress impeached President Rousseff, and Temer formally took over the presidency. In October 2018, Brazil held a presidential election in which the Social Liberal Party (PLP) candidate, José Luis Bosonaro, was elected as the new president and was officially inaugurated on January 1, 2019.2022 October. Lula wins the election again as the Labor Party candidate and formally takes office on January 1, 2023.

(Source: Official website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China:https://www.mfa.gov.cn/web/gjhdq_676201/gj_676203/bmz_679954/)