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Chapter 1. 



GEOGRAPHY 



The most erroneous ideas exist in the minds of many Europeans 

 as to the geographical conditions of Brazil. 



The Federated States of Brazil, twenty in number, besides the 

 Territory of Acre and the Federal District, are almost a world in 

 themselves and form the Eastern part of South America. The area 

 they occupy corresponds to y^^^h part of the whole of the world. 

 Brazil is almost half the size of South America, 300 times as large as 

 Belgium, 15 times as large as France, and almost as large as the whole 

 of the United States of North America, with the exception of Alaska. 

 Only Great Britain and China may boast of possessing a larger territory 

 under their flags than Brazil, but Brazil has this advantage that it 

 forms one complete whole, not separated by other territory. 



Brazil's boundaries touch British, French and Dutch Quianas, 

 the Repviblics of Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Para- 

 guay, Uruguay and Argentine. The only South American country 

 which does not border on Brazil is Chili. Brazil's coast line on the 

 Atlantic Ocean is 7,920 klm. (over 5,000 miles), whilst the total area 

 is stated to be 8,524,776 square kilometres (3,292,000 square miles). 



The Density of Population is very low, for the total number 

 of inhabitants, according to the latest census of 1920, is only 

 30,553,509, or 9-3 per square mile. This factor is the one great 

 impediment in the more rapid development of the country. 



POPULATION OF BRAZIL FOR THE YEARS 1913, 1914, 1915, 1916 and 1917 



Total for 1920 : 30,553,5C 



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