What is the largest country in both area and population to have Portuguese as its official language?
Correct answer: Brazil
Pimpao +
First "discovered" by Portuguese captain/sailor Pedro Alvares Cabral in 1500, he gave Rio de Janeiro it's name = River of January originally reached in this month and though to be a river mouth initially
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Brazil is the sixth-largest country by population
mac
if we (the USA) had lost WW2 we'd all be speaking German or japanese
micron9999
I knew because I have been to Rio Di Janeiro. Several times when we stopped to eat I asked for lemon with my Diet Coke & they gave me lime. Finally got a waiter who spoke English fluently & he explained: lemons are the green ones, limes are yellow! Cute memory of a great place to visit.
PlentifulNonsense8
Brazil got its name when Spain and. Portugal asked the Pope at that time to help set up lines of influence ln the new. world which he did by dividing it by drawing which is called the "Line of Demarcation".