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Brazil is the fifth largest country in the world. It was a colony of Portugal from 1500 until 1815.
Brazil was the second country in the world, after Great Britain, to issue postage stamps valid within the entire country (as opposed to a local issue). Like Great Britain's first stamps, the design does not include the country name.
