
Brazil is the largest country in South America, reaching from the Amazon rainforest to a long Atlantic coastline.
Covering roughly half of South America, Brazil borders every country on the continent except Chile and Ecuador, and its capital, Brasília, is a purpose-built modernist city inaugurated in 1960. Travellers come for Rio de Janeiro's beaches and Christ the Redeemer, the Iguaçu Falls on the Argentine border, the wildlife of the Pantanal wetlands and Carnival.