BRICS Member Countries Map

A map of the 11 member countries of the BRICS, drawn from the roster as it stood in September 2026, in four map styles and free to download at high resolution.

Members
11
Founded
2009 (as BRIC)
Headquarters
No permanent secretariat; rotating chairship
Roster as of
September 2026
Map of the 11 BRICS member countries shaded in colour on a flat Natural Earth political map, as of September 2026
BRICS member countries as of September 2026 — download PNG · SVG

About the BRICS

BRICS has 11 full members. The original five — Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa — were joined on 1 January 2024 by Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran and the United Arab Emirates, and by Indonesia in January 2025 and Saudi Arabia in July 2025. The acronym has long since stopped describing the roster.

The second colour marks the ten partner countries, a tier created at the 2024 Kazan summit for states involved in BRICS activity without full membership: Belarus, Bolivia, Cuba, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Nigeria, Thailand, Uganda, Uzbekistan and Vietnam. Argentina was invited to join as a full member in 2023 and declined after a change of government, so it is unshaded.

The grouping has no founding treaty and no secretariat; it runs on annual summits and a rotating chairship. Its most concrete institution is the New Development Bank in Shanghai, established in 2014. Because membership expanded so recently and in stages, BRICS maps published before 2025 are usually out of date — check the 'as of' line on any you find.

The same membership in four map styles

Every map on this page shows the identical roster — only the base layer and the projection change. Pick whichever reads best for what you are making, and download it at 3200 pixels wide.

Map of the 11 BRICS member countries shaded in colour on a flat Natural Earth political map, as of September 2026
Classic political Flat colours on the Natural Earth projection — the clearest read of who is in and who is out, and the version to use in a document or on a slide. Download: PNG (3200 px) · SVG (vector)
Map of the 11 BRICS member countries shaded in colour over satellite imagery on a globe, as of September 2026
Satellite globe Esri World Imagery under a translucent membership shading, on an orthographic globe turned to face the bloc. Download: JPG (3200 px)
Map of the 11 BRICS member countries shaded in colour on a Mercator projection map, as of September 2026
Mercator projection The same membership on Web Mercator, the projection every online map uses. It stretches everything far from the equator — compare Canada and Russia here against the Equal Earth version below. Download: PNG (3200 px)
Map of the 11 BRICS member countries shaded in colour on an Equal Earth equal-area map, as of September 2026
Equal Earth projection An equal-area projection: every country covers the share of the image that it covers of the planet. The honest choice when a map is making a point about size. Download: PNG (3200 px)

The 11 BRICS member countries

  1. Brazil
  2. China
  3. Egypt
  4. Ethiopia
  5. India
  6. Indonesia
  7. Iran
  8. Russia
  9. Saudi Arabia
  10. South Africa
  11. United Arab Emirates

Partner countries (10)

Belarus, Bolivia, Cuba, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Nigeria, Thailand, Uganda, Uzbekistan, Vietnam

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Colour your own version of this map

The link below opens this exact roster in the world map maker, already shaded. From there you can change the colours, relabel the legend, switch projection, add pins or annotations, and export your own version as PNG or SVG.

Open the BRICS map in the editor →

Source for the roster: infobrics.org, checked September 2026.

Using these maps

All four downloads are free for personal, classroom, academic and editorial use — a school project, a lecture slide, a blog post, a news graphic. Boundaries come from Natural Earth, which is public domain. The satellite, street and terrain versions are drawn over Esri basemap imagery, credited in the corner of each image; keep that credit visible when you reuse them.

Please keep the "September 2026" date on the map. Membership changes, and a membership map without a date is the single most common way an out-of-date roster ends up being republished as current.

Questions about BRICS membership

How many countries are in BRICS in 2026?

11 full members: Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, the UAE, Indonesia and Saudi Arabia.

Is Argentina in BRICS?

No. Argentina was invited to join from January 2024 but withdrew its application after the December 2023 change of government, and is not a member or a partner country.

What is a BRICS partner country?

A tier introduced at the 2024 Kazan summit for states that take part in BRICS activity without full membership. Ten countries hold the status and are shown in the second colour on this map.

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