Events in the year 2017 in Brazil. President: Michel Temer Vice president: Vacant Acre: Tião Viana Alagoas: Renan Filho Amapa: Waldez Góes Amazonas: José...
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Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest and easternmost country in South America and Latin America. It is the world's fifth-largest...
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Brazil has a high level of urbanization with 87.8% of the population residing in urban and metropolitan areas. The criteria used by the IBGE (Brazilian...
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Slavery in Brazil began long before the first Portuguese settlement. Later, colonists were heavily dependent on indigenous labor during the initial phases...
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56,101 murders in Brazil in 2017. Another study has the 2017 murder rate at 32.4 per 100,000, with 64,357 homicides. In 2016, Brazil had a record 61...
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Brazil in men's international football and is administered by the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF), the governing body for football in Brazil....
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Miss Brazil 2017 (Portuguese: Miss Brasil 2017), officially Miss Brazil Be Emotion 2017 (Portuguese: Miss Brasil Be Emotion 2017), was the 63rd edition...
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wrestler, better known by his ring name Bobo Brazil. Credited with breaking down barriers of racial segregation in professional wrestling, Harris is considered...
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predominant religion in Brazil is Christianity, with Catholicism being its largest denomination. In 1891, when the first Brazilian Republican Constitution...
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The 2017 labor reform in Brazil was a significant change in the country's Consolidation of Labor Laws (Portuguese: Consolidação das Leis do Trabalho)...
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agriculture of Brazil is historically one of the principal bases of Brazil's economy. As of 2024 the country is the second biggest grain exporter in the world...
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The 2017 Brazil prison riots were a confrontation between two criminal organizations, the Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC) and Comando Vermelho (CV)...
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motor race held on 12 November 2017 at the Autódromo José Carlos Pace in the Interlagos neighborhood of São Paulo, Brazil. The race was the nineteenth and...
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uncertainty regarding Brazil's economic future following a series of political scandals. In the first quarter of 2017, Brazil's GDP rose by 1%. This was...
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stabilized in 1994, Brazilian immigration continued as Brazilians left in search of higher wages in the United States. In 2020, the Brazilian Ministry of...
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Brazil once had the highest deforestation rate in the world and in 2005 still had the largest area of forest removed annually. Since 1970, over 700,000...
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Brazil had an official resident population of 203 million in 2022, according to IBGE. Brazil is the seventh most populous country in the world and the...
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of Brazil is historically the largest in Latin America and the Southern Hemisphere in nominal terms. The Brazilian economy is the second largest in the...
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Spaniards). Brazil has seen greater racial equality over time. According to a recent review study, "There has been major, albeit uneven, progress in these terms...
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a summary of the 2017 football (soccer) season in Brazil, which was the 116th season of competitive football in the country. The 2017 Campeonato Brasileiro...
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film. In 1999, the British Film Institute voted Brazil the 54th greatest British film of all time. In 2017, a poll of 150 actors, directors, writers, producers...
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Miss Brazil CNB 2017 was the 28th edition of the Miss Brazil CNB pageant and the 3rd under CNB Miss Brazil, held at the Hotel do Bosque in Angra dos Reis...
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The military dictatorship in Brazil (Portuguese: ditadura militar), occasionally referred to as the Fifth Brazilian Republic, was established on 1 April...
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Operation Car Wash (category 2017 in Brazil)
Operação Lava Jato, Brazilian Portuguese pronunciation: [opeɾɐˈsɐ̃w lavɐ ˈʒatu]) was a landmark anti-corruption probe in Brazil. Beginning in March 2014 as...
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The 2017 Brazilian general strike took place on 28 April, 100 years after Brazil's first general strike in June 1917. The movement was a protest against...
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Education in Brazil has had many changes. It first began with Jesuit missions, that controlled education for a long time. Then, two hundred years after...
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The Brazil nut (Bertholletia excelsa) is a South American tree in the family Lecythidaceae, and it is also the name of the tree's commercially harvested...
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The following is a list of Brazilian films released in 2017. 2017 in Brazil "Brasil nas Telas". ANCINE (Brazilian National Film Agency). Retrieved 26 June...
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Alan Bernard Brazil (born 15 June 1959) is a Scottish broadcaster and former footballer who played as a forward. He most notably played for Ipswich Town...
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Brazil ranks 49.3 in the Gini coefficient index, with the richest 10% of Brazilians earning 43% of the nation's income, the poorest 34% earn less than...
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