Monday 18 February 2008

What is bigger - the whole Europe or Brazil alone? Comparison of Europe and Brazil maps.

Brazil conjures up mostly images of leisurely beach life, or crime-ridden slums. However, the country is slowly emerging as an industrial giant and might soon have an economic punch matching its surface (almost half of South America) and population (exceeding 188 million).

At 8.511.965 km², Brazil is the 5th largest country on earth, the larger ones being Russia, Canada, the US and China (in that order).

Although Brazil covers an area equal to 88% of the US and therefore is almost as large, its vastness holds less sway over the imagination of non-Americans. An interesting way of visualizing its size is presented with this map: all of non-Russian Europe fits into Brazil!

The date for this map is given as 1957?, but it most probably is older: the Polish-German border is the one from 1918 to 1939.


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