Brazilian map of the world (2025)

This map, published by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) in 2025, shows a world map centred on Brazil.

The map shows the world from a Brazilian perspective. To do this, it not only centres the world map on Brazil, as the IBGE had done in previous maps, but this time it also chooses to place the south at the top of the map.

In addition, the map shows Brazil's main international alliances:

• In orange, the other members of the BRICS.
• In purple, the other Portuguese-speaking countries.
• In green, the members of Mercosur.
• In green stripes, the members of the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organisation (ACTO).

This representation may have been strongly influenced by other earlier maps such as Inverted America o McArthur's corrective map. If you want to learn more about the history of map orientation, I wrote about the reason why here. the north is at the top.

Sources

• IBGE – Inverted world map
• The World Map, as issued by the Brazilian government