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① Chad southwestern city. In 邦戈尔西南 112 km. Population of 22,000 (1979). There ginning and food industries. Highway through N'Djamena, Saer He and neighboring Cameroon. There are airports. Near the mining of iron ore.
② a state in northern Brazil. Northeast Atlantic Ocean, northwest Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana adjacent. Area of 1,247,000 square kilometers. Population 7.110.465 (2006). The capital Belem. Except for the Guyana plateau north of the southern highlands of Brazil, but mostly Amazon valley downstream. Also know the climate, the annual average temperature 26 ℃, annual rainfall of 1,500 mm or more, dense tropical rainforest. 1889 statehood. Sugar cane, rice, cotton, rubber, babassu nuts, medicinal plants, etc.; introduction of jute, pepper and other plantation crops by Japanese immigration after World War II. There are food, textile, chemical, tires, lumber and other industries. Rich in mineral resources, mining-rich southern Carajas mountains iron ore, manganese, bauxite and so on. Hydropower has Tucuruí Tocantins River on the east. |