Brazil is a nation in Latin America. It is the world’s 5th largest country. It has 201 million people. The capital of Brazil is Brasília.
Most Brazilian speak Portuguese. Brazil is the only country in South America that speaks Portuguese. Some Brazilian speak German dialects which came from German immigrants. 0.9% of Brazilians use German as their first language. Other people in Brazil speak indigenous Brazilian languages, Japanese, Italian, French or Spanish.
Brazil has the Amazon Rainforest which is the world’s biggest rainforest. Amazon forest covers 40% of the country’s land area. Brazil also has a kind of savanna called cerrado, and a dry plant region named caatinga.
Film Faced Plywood market in Brazil
Brazilian roads are the main carriers of freight and passengers. The road system totaled 1.98 million km in 2002. The total of paved roads increased from 35,486 km in 1967 to 184,240 km in 2002.
Brazil’s railway system has been declining since 1945, when emphasis shifted to highway construction. Most of the railway system belonged to the Federal Railroad Corporation. The São Paulo Metro was the first underground transport system in Brazil. The other metro systems are in Rio de Janeiro, Porto Alegre, Recife, Belo Horizonte, Brasília, Teresina and Fortaleza.
The construction of infrastructures and real estate has been booming since the new century. There is a great need of film faced plywood as cement shuttering board in Brazilian market. The brazil-made plywood is of high quality but the cost drives the needs of local plywood down. In such circumstances the film faced plywood imported from China has been a very good substitute of local construction board.