The true size of Brazil (1970)

This map, published around 1970, compares the size of Brazil with that of Europe.

The persuasive aim of this map is to show the territorial grandeur of Brazil, comparing its size with that of all European countries, with the exception of Russia. In total, Brazil's area exceeds that of the countries considered by more than 1.5 million square kilometres.

As a curious detail, given the era of the map, it includes Belarus, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Ukraine as part of the Soviet Union, a unified Yugoslavia, a unified Czechoslovakia, but a pseudo-unified Germany. This was common in many Western publications, as West Germany did not fully recognise the independence and legitimacy of East Germany.

The map was part of various educational resources in the 1970s and 1980s, although I have been unable to find out in which year it was first published. A more modern version It was part of a serialised encyclopaedia published by Abril in Brazil in 1982 under the title «Conhecer Universal».

You can find out more about the true size of countries in this article.

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