Countries

Brazil

South America's largest country by far, covering roughly half the continent's land and population, and home to about 60% of the Amazon rainforest. Christ the Redeemer, completed in 1931 atop Rio de Janeiro's Corcovado mountain, is one of the New Seven Wonders of the World.

Christ the Redeemer statue atop Corcovado mountain in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Christ the Redeemer, Rio

Photo: Deborah Nolan, CC BY-SA 2.0

Green for the forests, yellow for mineral wealth, the blue globe for the sky over Rio on the night the republic was proclaimed in 1889; its stars are mapped to Brazil's states, banded by the motto 'Ordem e Progresso,' Order and Progress.

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