BRAZIL, a city in the western part of Indiana, U.S.A., 16m. N. by E. of Terre Haute; the county seat of Clay county. It is on Federal highway 4o, and is served by the Central Indiana, the Chicago and Eastern Illinois, the Cincinnati, Indianapolis and Western, and the Pennsylvania railways. The population in 1930 was 8,744. It is in the heart of deposits of clay and shale, and of the "Brazil Block district" of the Indiana coal-fields, so called because this coal breaks naturally into almost perfect rectangular blocks. The manufactures include sewer-pipe, bricks, furniture, tin cans, boilers, engines, mine-fans, and mining machinery. The first settlement here was made in 1844. The town was incorpor ated in 1866, and chartered as a city in 1873.