Brazil Listeni/brəˈzɪl/ (Portuguese: Brasil, IPA: [bɾaˈziw][8]),
officially the Federative Republic of Brazil[9][10] (Portuguese:
República Federativa do Brasil, About this sound listen (help·info)), is
the largest country in South America and in the Latin America region.
It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and
by population with over 193 million people.[4][11] It is the largest
Lusophone country in the world, and the only one in the Americas.[11]
Bounded by the Atlantic Ocean on the east, Brazil has a coastline of
7,491 km (4,655 mi).[11] It is bordered on the north by Venezuela,
Guyana, Suriname and the French overseas region of French Guiana; on the
northwest by Colombia; on the west by Bolivia and Peru; on the
southwest by Argentina and Paraguay
Bismillah Airlines is an airline based in Bangladesh. It is an
enterprise within the Mollah Group of Industries, an industrial and
export house of Bangladesh and is the first private sector international
airline holding AOC/ATO Licenses to operate regular freighter services
as an international cargo carrier of Bangladesh. The airline was
established in 1998.[citation needed]
Calexico is a Tucson, Arizona-based Americana / Tex-Mex / indie rock
band. The band's two main members, Joey Burns and John Convertino, first
played together in Los Angeles as part of the group Giant Sand. They
have recorded a number of albums on Quarterstick Records, while their
2005 EP In the Reins recorded with Iron & Wine has reached the
Billboard 200 album charts. Their musical style is influenced by
traditional Latin sounds of mariachi / conjunto / cumbia / Tejano music
and also the Southwestern United States country music as well as
'50s-'60s jazz and '90s-'00s post-rock, and they have been described by
some as "desert noir" or indie rock. The band is named for the border
town of Calexico, California
Calais (/ˈkæleɪ/ CAL-ay, traditionally /ˈkælɨs/; French pronunciation:
[ka'lɛ]; Dutch: Kales) is a town and major ferry port in northern
France in the department of Pas-de-Calais, of which it is a
sub-prefecture. Although Calais is by far the largest city in
Pas-de-Calais, the department's capital is its third-largest city of
Arras. The population of the metropolitan area at the 1999 census was
125,584. Calais overlooks the Strait of Dover, the narrowest point in
the English Channel, which is only 34 km (21 mi) wide here, and is the
closest French town to England
Cairo (pron.: /ˈkaɪroʊ/ KYE-roh ) is the capital of Egypt and the
largest city in the Arab world and Africa. Its metropolitan area is the
16th largest in the world. Located near the Nile Delta,[1][2] it was
founded in 969 AD. Nicknamed "the city of a thousand minarets" for its
preponderance of Islamic architecture, Cairo has long been a centre of
the region's political and cultural life. Cairo was founded by the
Fatimid dynasty in the 10th century AD, but the land composing the
present-day city was the site of national capitals whose remnants remain
visible in parts of Old Cairo.
