Political geography

Brazil takes up so much of South America that it has borders shared between every South American country except for Equador and Chile.
Brazil has one federal district and is divided into twenty-six other states, its most popular state is Sao Paulo and the capital is Brasilia.
Two of the largest cities in the world are found in Brazil, they are Sao paulo and Rio de Janeiro. These two cities are only two hundred and fifty miles away from each other.
The population of Sao Paulo has doubled in the last thirty-two years from eleven milion people. Both cities have large shanty towns which are always growing.
Brazils birth rate has decreased greatly in the last twenty years. On average in the eighties Brazilian women gave birth to 4.4 children each however in nineteen ninety five that average had droped to 2.1 children each.