
Brazil (Capital:Brasília)
15th BRICS Agriculture Ministers' Meeting held in Brazil.
Political Features:
- It is the largest country in South America and the fifth largest nation in the world.
- Faces Atlantic Ocean and shares inland borders with every South American country except Chile and Ecuador
Geographical Features:
- Both the Equator and the Tropic of Capricorn pass through it.
- Major River: Amazon has the world’s largest river system and the world’s largest remaining virgin rainforest.
- Climate: Humid tropical and subtropical climate except for a drier area in the Northeast.
- Mining: World's top producer of niobium and second-largest producer of iron ore, manganese, tantalite, and bauxite, and the