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What is the name of the capital of Brazil?

If you said "Rio de Janeiro", then you are mistaken, although this is the largest and most beautiful city in the country.

For a long time, the lands in the very center of the country, in the east of the Brazilian plateau, remained almost undeveloped. Only in the middle of our century there, on the slopes of the mountains, the first coffee plantations appeared.

In these places, overgrown with forest, they decided to build a new capital. In 1960, the country's government moved from the noisy, crowded and dusty Rio de Janeiro to the new capital, whose name is Brasilia (or Brasilia).

Initially, it was planned that Brazil would be a relatively small city of officials. However, so many people moved to the new capital that several satellite cities had to be built around it. By themselves, around the capital, as well as around other large cities of the country, the villages of the poor also arose.

Brazil is a green city with many parks and just green lawns.

Author: Cellarius E.Yu.

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