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• Statistics
  Distance from Auckland to Foz d’Iguacu is approx 12,034km
  · About 35 thousand people in Brazil are killed by guns each year, more than any other country in the world.
  · Corruption is a way of life in Brazil and about 50 million citizens aren't sure where they'll get their next meal.
  · Some tributaries of South America's interior Amazon basin are still unexplored.
  · The Federal Republic of Brazil is enormous, covering 8,514,215 square kilometres of the South America land mass with a population of 175 million.
  · Brazil is the 5th largest country in the world and huge areas remain unpopulated.
  · About 30% of the world's surviving forest can be found in the Amazon basin of South America, which holds about one fifth of the world's fresh water.
  · Brazil's balmy north-east has almost 3,000 kilometres of virtually uninterrupted white beaches from Sao Luis to Salvador.
  · The country has three time zones plus daylight saving in different locations.
  · Just over half the people are of European descent and most of the remainder are of mixed blood with strong African connections dating back to the slave trade. About 200,000 are native Indians, concentrated inland.
  · In 2004 more than half the Brazilian population was aged under 21.