Brazil has a very unique cultural landscape. It varies from forests to beaches to highly populated cities. Brazil owns the Amazon forest which is a vast extension of land covered by virgin forests and rivers that flow in a serpent like way. Brazil also has a lot of tourist places like beaches because people consider this beaches to be the most beautiful in the world so people always go there to have fun and tourists are always traveling there. Soccer is also a landscape maker because everywhere you go in Brazil you will always see a group of guys playing soccer and having fun. This leaded to the construction of soccer stadiums and a lot of infrastructures that mark the country. Also there are highly urbanized areas like Sao Paulo that have a lot of people and buildings that mark a landscape and represent the richness of the country. Last but not least the countries landscape is marked by the people themselves because the people are always joyful and they are welcoming and will always give you a smile. The people are the ones that really mark the country and they represent their country more than the landscape.

Brazil's Urban/Economic Geography

Brazil is a very large land mass with a lot of virgin forests and natural landscape not yet exploited by human beings. Yet one could say that brazil is very highly urbanized because it has large populations and big cities in which most of the population is located in the southern part of brazil. The biggest metropolitan areas in Brazil are the cites of Sao Paulo with 19.5 million people, Rio de Janeiro with 11.5 million people and Belo Horizonte with 5.1 million people and all of this cities are located in the south eastern region of Brazil.

Brazil has the largest national economy in the whole region of Latin America, it is the eighth in the world and the seventh largest in purchasing power. Brazil is considered a mix economy and it has a lot of natural resources that gives the country money. Most people and the country make money through Mining, agriculture, manufacturing and service sectors as well as a large number of people working as laborers. Also the country has expanded it exports and major export products include cars, aircrafts, electrical equipment, ethanol, textiles, steel, coffee and orange juice. So these are the dominant industries of Brazil because they export and bring money to the country. The minimum wage in Brazil is $545 per month which means that a median income level for the whole population would probably be a little higher at about $1000 a per month