Brazil's Carnival is a five-day festival held before Ash Wednesday, the start of Lent, the forty-day period before Easter. The name comes from the Latin carnelevare, meaning to remove meat, because Catholics traditionally give up meat during Lent. Carnival is Brazil's most popular holiday, and during the week most of the country stops work, with the most intense celebrations in coastal cities. Rio de Janeiro's parade is often described as the largest single carnival parade in the world, and the city drew about 6 million people in 2018. São Paulo holds the largest street carnival by number of participants. Its roots trace back to the Portuguese Age of Discoveries, when ships stopped at Madeira, which already had a strong carnival season, and brought its customs to Brazil.

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Angkor, near Siem Reap in northern Cambodia, was the capital of the Khmer Empire, which ruled much of mainland Southeast Asia between roughly the 9th and 15th centuries. At its height the city spread across about 3,000 square kilometres, making it the largest pre-industrial city on Earth by area. Its growth depended on water: huge reservoirs called barays, along with canals and embankments, stored monsoon rain and carried it to rice fields. That system let farmers harvest more than once a year and fed a very large population through the dry season. The temple complex of Angkor Wat, built in the early 12th century, is the best-known monument and still stands at the heart of the park.