What is the Special in Brazil?

Oscar Niemeyer designed the capital city of Brasilia. It resembles the shape of an airplane when viewed from the air.

According to the author Jens Gluessing, one of the party died during the trip.

Brazilian national anthem has two seven-verse stanzas. Interestingly, both the stanzas have the same tune. Brazilian law does not permit you to sing just one stanza, you have to sing both the stanzas.

Gluessing found a 9ft-high wooden cross etched with swastikas on a tributary of the Jari River.

The world’s highest vertical cemetery (108 meters tall) is The Memorial Necrópole Ecumênica, in Santos, Brazil. While the world’s biggest cemetery (covers 1485.5 acres and contains millions of bodies) is in Iraq in the city of Najaf.

The inscription read: “Joseph Greiner died here on 2.1.1936, a death from fever in the service of German Research Work.”

Brazilians drink 5.5 kg per capita per year of coffee while Finland tops the list with 12 kg per capita per year. See the list of nations drinking the most coffee here.

Brazil has been the world’s largest exporter of coffee for more than 150 years.

Brazil is the leading producer of oranges in the world, which amounts to 30% of the world’s total output.

It supplied around 80 per cent of the world’s coffee in the 1920s; that figure has fallen to around a third.

Brazil is the 5th largest country in the world.

Sao Paulo is the richest and the most populated state in Brazil. It is also the largest city in South America.

Tours of Brazil’s shanty towns, or “favelas”, have become popular tourist attractions in recent years.

Brazil is the leading producer of oranges in the world, which amounts to 30% of the world’s total output.

Brazil has the 2nd highest number of airports in the world, after the U.S.

Among the most famous is colourful Santa Marta in Rio de Janeiro which has been visited by the likes of Michael Jackson, Madonna and Beyonce.

The ‘Itaipu Dam’ in Brazil is the second-largest producer of hydroelectricity in the world. It is 7.7 kilometers long and 196 meters high. It is located on the border between Brazil and Paraguay.

Sex change surgeries are free under Brazil's public health system since 2008.

Sao Paulo has some of the world’s worst traffic jams. According to Companhia de Engenharia de Tráfego, the city's traffic management agency, a congestion record was set on November 15, 2013, with a total of 309 kilometres (192 mi) of queues around the city during the evening rush hour.

The majority of people of African descent live in the Northeast, Brazilians of European and Japanese ancestry live in the South and Southeast region while the North and Central-West is home to the native people.

Sao Paulo has the largest economy by GDP of any city in the Southern Hemisphere (and 11th overall).

Brazil is the largest country in the world to have Portuguese as an official language. Note that Portuguese speaking people are also referred to as “Lusophones.”

8 of the 12 host cities for the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil are among the 50 most violent cities in the world.

For the best views of the skyscraper-studded metropolis, head to highest floor of the Edificio Italia (www.edificioitalia.com.br), the tallest building in the city centre at 46 stories.

Brazil was known by different names including the “Land of the Holy Cross” (Terra da Santa Cruz) and the “Land of Brazil” (Terra do Brasil)