Brazil Physical Brazil is located in Eastern South America bordering the Atlantic Ocean. The climate is mostly tropical with a temperate region in the South. Its terrain is mostly flat to rolling lowlands in the north with some plains, hills, and mountains further south.
Some natural resources are bauxite, gold, iron ore, manganese, and phosphates.
Deforestation in the Amazon Basin, which threatens the existence of multiple plant and animal species, is the country's largest environmental concern. People Nearly 170,000,000 people live in Brazil. Government Officially, the country is known as the Federative Republic of Brazil or Republica Federativa do Brasil to local inhabitants. Its capital, Brasilia, is located in the southeastern part of the country. Its constitution was ratified on October 5, 1988.