The North region of Brazil was the last region to be given importance by the Brazilian govenment, already when it was independent from Portugal, thus, it is the most inhabited of the country, and contributes with a minor percentage in the national GDP and population. It is composed by the states of Acre, Amapá, Amazonas, Pará, Rondônia, Roraima and Tocantins
It is the largest country in South America, occupying almost half of the continent and extending from north of the equator to south of the Tropic of Capricorn.
Brazil is now one of the most industrialized nations in South America, with a rapidly modernizing economy and a largely urban population.
The highlands separate Brazil’s inland regions from a narrow coastal plain that stretches from Ceará in the Northeast to the Uruguayan border in the South.
Brazil’s vast territory covers a great variety of land and climate, for although Brazil is mainly in the tropics (it is crossed by the equator in the north and by the Tropic of Capricorn in the south), the southern part of the great central upland is cool and yields the produce of temperate lands.
The rain forests of the Amazon River basin occupy all the north and north central portions of Brazil.
Brazil drew little benefit from either; far more important were the rise of postwar discontent in the military and beginnings of the large-scale European immigration that was to make SE Brazil the economic heart of the nation.
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