Events in the year 2019 in Brazil. President: Jair Bolsonaro Vice President: Hamilton Mourão Acre: Gladson Cameli Alagoas: Renan Filho Amapa: Waldez Góes...

The 2019 Amazon rainforest wildfires season saw a year-to-year surge in fires occurring in the Amazon rainforest and Amazon biome within Brazil, Bolivia...

Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest and easternmost country in South America. It is the world's fifth-largest country...

agricultural sector in Brazil is historically one of the principal bases of Brazil's economy. In 2024, Brazil was the second-biggest grain exporter in the world...

since 16 May 2013, including marriage and adoption. On June 13, 2019, the Brazilian Supreme Court ruled that discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation...

Religion in Brazil (2010 census) Catholicism (64.6%) Protestantism (22.2%) Other Christians (2%) No religion (8%) Spiritism (2%) Other religions (1.2%)...

Terrorism in Brazil has occurred since at least the 1940s. The Shindo Renmei were a Japanese-Brazilian terror organization whose attacks were focused on...

on 17 November 2019 at the Autódromo José Carlos Pace in São Paulo, Brazil. The race was the twentieth and penultimate round of the 2019 FIA Formula One...

(UNODC), Brazil had a homicide rate of 21.26 per 100,000 inhabitants in 2021, up from 20.89 per 100,000 inhabitants with 43,073 murders in 2019; however...

a summary of the 2019 football (soccer) season in Brazil, which was the 118th season of competitive football in the country. The 2019 Campeonato Brasileiro...

Miss Brazil 2019 (Portuguese: Miss Brasil 2019), officially Miss Brazil Be Emotion 2019 (Portuguese: Miss Brasil Be Emotion 2019), was the 65th edition...

Brazil has a high level of urbanization with 87.8% of the population residing in urban and metropolitan areas. The criteria used by the IBGE (Brazilian...

Time in Brazil is calculated using standard time, and the country (including its offshore islands) is divided into four standard time zones: Fernando...

Slavery in Brazil began long before the first Portuguese settlement. Later, colonists were heavily dependent on indigenous labor during the initial phases...

Prostitution in Brazil is legal, in terms of exchanging sex for money, as there are no laws forbidding adults from being professional sex workers, but...

settling in Brazil when the Inquisition reached Portugal, in the 16th century. They arrived in Brazil during the period of Dutch rule, setting up in Recife...

Events in the year 2025 in Brazil. President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva Vice President Geraldo Alckmin President of the Chamber of Deputies Arthur Lira...

Spaniards). Brazil has seen greater racial equality over time. According to a recent review study, "There has been major, albeit uneven, progress in these terms...

Cannabis in Brazil is illegal but decriminalized, while possession and cultivation of personal amounts and for private use were de-penalized in 2006. In 2024...

Brazil once had the highest deforestation rate in the world, and recent data still shows high rates of deforestation. Between 2001 and 2023, Brazil lost...

Sports in Brazil are those that are widely practiced and popular in the country, as well as others which originated there or have some cultural significance...

established in Brazil in 1926 with the opening of the South American Mission. Missionary work was focused on small German immigrant colonies in South Brazil. The...

League doubles in 2022 and 2024. After representing Brazil at youth level, he made his senior debut in 2019, aged only 18, representing Brazil at the 2022...

Corruption in Brazil exists on all levels of society from the top echelons of political power to the smallest municipalities. Operation Car Wash showed...

heavily associated and sometimes were endorsed by Bolsonaro. In August 2019, the Brazilian Republican Party changed its name into Republicanos. Justifying...

Protestantism in Brazil began in the 19th century and grew in the 20th century. The 2010 census reported that 22.2% of the Brazilian population was Protestant...

kilometres (5.6 mi) east of Brumadinho in Minas Gerais, Brazil, is owned by the mining company Vale, which was also involved in the Mariana dam disaster of 2015...

President of Brazil Jair Bolsonaro on 12 November 2019 after stating his departure from the Social Liberal Party (PSL). The organization disbanded in April 2022...

Abortion is generally illegal in Brazil. Penalties range from one to three years of imprisonment for the recipient of the abortion, and one to four years...

The Brazilian real (pl. reais; sign: R$; code: BRL) is the official currency of Brazil. It is subdivided into 100 centavos. The Central Bank of Brazil is...