All 12 World Cup stadiums are now viewable through Google Street View

The World Cup begins next week, and ahead of the the first match, Google’s put out full Street View imagery of the 12 World Cup stadiums and surrounding areas. That includes painted streets and points of interest around Brazil, as well as what Google says is new imagery in Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru. Google did the same thing four years agoat the last World Cup competition in South Africa, doing Street View on 10 of the stadiums as well as the host cities. The first match begins next Thursday when Brazil goes up against Croatia.

The first game of the 2014 soccer football World Cup in Brazil is scheduled to kick off a week from now and — in what’s slowly becoming a tradition around major sports events — Google today released Street View imagery of all 12 World Cup stadiums. In addition to the stadiums themselves, Google also took its cameras to the areas around the venues, as well as numerous other sites in the country. These include the likes of the Iguaçu National Park and St. Michael of the Missions. Google says that with this update, Street View in Brazil now also features images from “hundreds of interesting sites across Brazil.” In addition, the team today released new imagery from other South American countries, including Peru, Chile, Colombia and Mexico. Google, of course, is continuously adding new imagery to Street View and over the years, it’s launched images of numerous stadiums, too.