Hi everyone would like to know more about Brazil

Brazil is a country just like any other developing world country...
There is a mixture of wealth and poverty , first world and third world ,sometimes side by side. The majority of the Brazilian population live along the coast which varies in degrees of tropical....the more North you go , the more tropical it gets.
I find Brazil quite European in someways.....many neighbourhoods in Rio and Sao Paulo states remind me of modern Italian city suburbs.

Other than that the weather is hot and sweaty most of the time , it has a varied diverse population and culture. There is crime , but it's easy to avoid as a tourist if you just follow sensible pre cautions ...I personally find Rio pretty safe for all the hype about how dangerous it is.
Portuguese is the Language and English is hardly spoken , it can seem really difficult to travel around and figure out whats going on if you don't speak Portuguese. In reality everything is actually pretty straight forward if you understand whats going on.
It's a fairly expensive country and it gets more African in the Northeast and more European influence in the South below Sao Paulo state.