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Brazil
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)
Country code: br
Government type: federal republic
Independence: 7 September 1822 (from Portugal)
Literacy rate: total population: 88.6%
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Language: Portuguese (official and most widely spoken language); note - less common languages include Spanish (border areas and schools), German, Italian, Japanese, English, and a large number of minor Amerindian languages
Location: Eastern South America, bordering the Atlantic Ocean
Capital: Brasilia
Population: 198,739,269
