Printable maps

Blank maps to print, label, and color

110 outline maps drawn in your browser from public-domain Natural Earth and Census boundaries. Each comes in four versions (blank, labeled, colored, and with cities) and downloads as PDF, PNG, or SVG.

World and continents

Country outlines. The world sheet uses the Natural Earth projection.

United States

The national sheet shows states; every state sheet shows its counties.

Countries

National outlines, with states or provinces where Natural Earth has them.

How these maps are made

Each sheet is drawn in your browser from open boundary files: Natural Earth 1:50m for countries and continents, and the Census 2024 cartographic boundary file for US states and counties. Nothing is pre-rendered, so the download matches what you see.

The US national sheet uses the Albers USA projection with Alaska and Hawaii inset. The world sheet uses Natural Earth, a compromise that keeps both shapes and sizes close to true. Other sheets use Mercator fitted to the region, which keeps shapes familiar for small areas.

The four versions

Blank draws outlines only, with white fill, for quizzes, coloring, and plotting your own data by hand. Labeled adds a name at the center of each shape. Small shapes can crowd, so labels overlap on dense sheets.

Colored fills the shapes from a soft palette, never giving two neighbors the same color. With cities adds dots and names for up to 40 Natural Earth populated places, largest first.

Printing and file formats

Each sheet takes the shape of its region: landscape for wide ones, portrait for tall ones like California or Chile, so the map fills the page. Print sends the vector map straight to your printer. PDF is a 300 dpi page sized for US Letter, A4, Tabloid, or A3. PNG comes 1,200, 2,400, or 4,800 pixels on the long edge, for the web, worksheets, or posters. SVG is a vector file with one named path per shape that stays sharp at any size and can be edited in Inkscape, Illustrator, or Figma.

For a poster, use the SVG and scale it up. For a worksheet, print the blank PDF and ask students to label it, then hand out the labeled version or the numbered table on each sheet as the answer key.

Source and license

US outlines come from US Census Bureau cartographic boundary files; world and country outlines and city dots come from Natural Earth. Both are in the public domain. You may print, copy, and publish the maps, including in commercial work, without asking. A credit to Online Map Tools is welcome but not required.