Blank map of Africa

What this map shows

The 53 countries and territories that Natural Earth assigns to Africa, on a Mercator projection fitted to the continent. Small island states can be a few pixels across at this scale.

Countries on this sheet: Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cabo Verde, Cameroon, Central African Rep., Chad, Comoros, Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Dem. Rep. Congo, Djibouti, Egypt, Eq. Guinea, Eritrea, eSwatini, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, S. Sudan, São Tomé and Principe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, W. Sahara, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

The with-cities version labels 40 places, starting with Cairo, Lagos, Kinshasa, Luanda, Khartoum, Alexandria, Abidjan and Johannesburg.

The 53 countries on the sheet by area

Areas are measured on the sphere from the Natural Earth 1:50m outlines, so they differ slightly from official figures. Dem. Rep. Congo is the largest at 2,334,709 km², 8% of the land drawn.

Country sheets in Africa

Click a shape on the map above to open its own sheet, or pick one here.

Versions, printing and license

Every sheet comes blank, labeled, colored, or with cities. Print it straight from the browser as vectors, or download a 300 dpi PDF sized for US Letter, A4, Tabloid, or A3, a PNG up to 4,800 pixels, or an editable SVG with one named path per shape. Tall regions get a portrait sheet so they fill the page. The outlines are public domain, so you may print and publish the map, including commercially. The blank maps page explains each version, print sizes, and the license in full.