
Location: Eastern South America, bordering the Atlantic Ocean
Population: 190,010,647
Religions: Roman Catholic (nominal) 73.6%, Protestant 15.4%, Spiritualist 1.3%, Bantu/voodoo 0.3%, other 1.8%, unspecified 0.2%, none 7.4% (2000 census)
Languages: Portuguese (official), Spanish, English, French
National holiday: Independence Day, 7 September (1822)
Currency (code): real (BRL)
Exchange rates: reals per US dollar - 1.85 (2007 est.), 2.1761 (2006), 2.4344 (2005), 2.9251 (2004), 3.0771 (2003)
