- Total Area: 8,514,877 sq km
- Land Area: 8,459,417 sq km - Water Area: 55,460 sq km - Climate description: mostly tropical, but temperate in south - Terrain description: mostly flat to rolling lowlands in north; some plains, hills, mountains, and narrow coastal belt - Arable Land Use: 6.93% - Permanent Crop Land Use: 0.89% - Irrigated Land: 45,000 sq km - Total Renewable Water Resources: 8,233 cu km - Total Freshwater Withdrawal: total: 59.3 cu km/yr - Per Person Freshwater Withdrawal: 318 cu m/yr - Natural Hazards description: recurring droughts in northeast; floods and occasional frost in south - Environmental Current Issues: deforestation in Amazon Basin destroys the habitat and endangers a multitude of plant and animal species indigenous to the area; there is a lucrative illegal wildlife trade; air and water pollution in Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, and several other large cities; land degradation and water pollution caused by improper mining activities; wetland degradation; severe oil spills - Total Labor Force: 107.1 million - % of Labor Force in Agriculture: 20% - Agricultural Products description: coffee, soybeans, wheat, rice, corn, sugarcane, cocoa, citrus; beef |
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