Wikipedia:Blank maps

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Here are some blank maps for colour and label in different languages.

IMPORTANT: Only .svg (vector) and .png (raster) images are to be used for maps.

Contents 1 SVG format 1.1 World Maps 1.2 Europe 1.2.1 National 1.3 Other 2 PNG maps 2.1 World Maps 2.2 Europe 2.2.1 National 2.3 Africa 2.3.1 National 2.4 North America 2.4.1 National 2.4.2 Subnational 2.5 Caribbean / Central America 2.5.1 National 2.6 South America 2.6.1 National 2.7 Asia 2.7.1 National 2.8 Oceania 2.8.1 National 2.9 Time periods 2.10 Hemisphere maps 2.11 Other 3 Libre Map Project boundary maps 4 Blank maps derived from OMC 5 See also

[edit] SVG format

SVG has advantages over PNG for creating derivative world maps of arbitrary detail / zoom level (see Wikipedia:WikiProject_Maps).

[edit] World Maps

• Image:BlankMap-World6.svg similar to Image:BlankMap-World3.svg. Non-contiguous areas grouped together for easy colouring, small countries' circles on separate layer, to use if needed, borders and Antarctica fixed from original.

Obsolete maps, many of which contain errors:

• Image:BlankMap-World.svg basic adaptation of Image:BlankMap-World.png to SVG format. - as of 08:14, 6 November 2006 (UTC) this map omits the state of Montenegro
• Image:BlankMap-World2.svg a more detailed map in the style of Image:BlankMap-World.png, adapted from Image:World map pol 2005 v02.svg
• Image:BlankMap-World3.svg like Image:BlankMap-World2.svg, but no latitude and longitude markers.
• Image:BlankMap-World4.svg an even more detailed map adapted from Image:A large blank world map with oceans marked in blue.svg - as of 08:14, 6 November 2006 (UTC) this map contains significant errors
• Image:BlankMap-World5.svg similar to Image:BlankMap-World4.svg, but includes Antarctica. Derived from Image:World Map Blank.svg - as of 08:14, 6 November 2006 (UTC) this map contains significant errors
• Image:BlankMap-World-alt.svg, an SVG rendering of Image:BlankMap-World.png in PNG Format. Includes peripheral projection lines and Antarctica. NOTE: This image is not a true vector image, it is merely a bitmap image embedded in SVG format - only the projection lines are vectors.

[edit] Europe

• Image:BlankMap-Europe no boundaries.svg- Europe without borders, showing some of North Africa and Western Asia, built on Image:BlankMap-Europe-v3.png, painted in the suggested colors of the English Wikipedia Map project.
• Image:Blank Map of Europe -w boundaries.svg - Europe with borders, showing some of North Africa and Western Asia, built on Image:BlankMap-Europe-v5.png with standard colors.

[edit] National

• Image:India-locator-map-blank.svg – India with the states. States on a separate layer and can be removed if necessary.
• Image:Italy Blank Map.svg -- Italy without borders

[edit] Other

• Image:World map pol 2005 v02.svg world vector political map by ru:user:Yadra

[edit] PNG maps

PNG is a raster graphics format. SVG (vector) maps are preferred over PNG maps for rescaling (for text, curves and lines) and some types of editing purposes. PNG may have some advantages including smaller filesize (due to less-than-optimal server-side SVG-to-raster conversion), and being more widely supported. Also, while editing SVGs in Inkscape can be more convenient because layers can be saved, PNG is often easier and faster to make simple changes to things such as borders - both formats have their strengths and weaknesses.

[edit] World Maps

• Image:BlankMap-World.png - A world map. Robinson projection centered on the Greenwich Prime Meridian. Microstates and island nations are generally represented by single or few pixels approximate to the capital; all territories indicated in the UN listing of territories and regions are exhibited. Quite large - 1357 x 628 pixels, 28 064 bytes.

• Image:BlankMap-World-alt.png - The same map as above, but including the peripheral projection lines and Antarctica. 1488 x 755 pixels, 35 471 bytes.

• Image:Newworldmap.png - As above, but with bodies of water coloured blue. 1488 x 755, 37 171 bytes
• Image:Newworldmap-alt.png - As above, but with bodies of water coloured blue and white land masses. 1488 x 755,

• Image:BlankMap-World-detailed.png - The same map as above, but extremely detailed (includes the Azores, Madeira, Ceuta, Melilla, Hong Kong, Macau)
• Image:BlankMap-World-Borders.png - A version of the map with black lines for borders around each country.

• Image:BlankMap-World-v2.png - The same map as above, but with sovereign microstates (i.e., under 2 500 km² in area) represented as circles to facilitate identification and colourising. 1357 x 628 pixels, 28 549 bytes.

• Image:BlankMap-World-v3.png - Essentially as above, but using thin lines between islands owned by the same country so countries can be colored in one click - may be more convenient for converting large amounts of country data to a map
• Image:BlankMap-World-v4.png - Similar to the above, but it increases the size of other tiny countries as well, for visibility purposes, and uses white borders even for the microstates.

• Image:BlankMap-World-v4-Borders.png - Version of v4 with borders around each country.
• Image:BlankMap-World-v5.png - Version of v4 with thin lines to join areas owned by the same country for one-click colouring.

• Image:BlankMap-World-v5-Borders.png - Version of v5 with borders around each country.

• Image:BlankMap-World-v6.png - Version of v4 with dots for dependencies as well as sovereign territories.

• Image:BlankMap-World-v6-Borders.png - Version of v6 with borders around each country.

• Image:BlankMap-World-v7.png - Version of v4 with thin lines to join areas owned by the same country for one-click colouring and with dots for dependencies as well as sovereign territories (merged content from v5 and v6).

• Image:BlankMap-World-v7-Borders.png - Version of v7 with borders around each country.

• Image:World map blank black lines 4500px monochrome.png Alternate blank world map, white with black borders, 4500 px PNG image

Obsolete maps, many of which contain errors:

• Image:A large blank world map with oceans marked in blue.PNG similar map as above with smaller border-lines and water in blue. As of 27/12/2006 this map contains significant errors!

[edit] Europe

• Image:BlankEurope.png A very large map of Europe. 1236x1245px 44.18 KB
• Image:BlankMap-Europe.png - Europe as far east as western Russia, western Turkey, and Cyprus. Some of the world's smallest states (e.g., Monaco, Vatican City) appear as single pixels. (The original version did not have the former eastern Soviet republics, but this one does). 450 x 422 pixels, 9 812 bytes.

• Image:BlankMap-Europe-v2.png - The same map as above, but with sovereign microstates (i.e., under 2 500 km² in area) represented as circles to facilitate identification and colourising. 450 x 422 pixels, 9 943 bytes.
• Image:BlankMap-Europe-v3.png - Europe without borders, showing some of North Africa and Western Asia.

• Image:BlankMap-Europe-v4.png - same as above but with borders shown
• Image:BlankMap-Europe-v5.png - same as above but with borders shown, alternate coloring

[edit] National

• Italian regions (25% rescaling factor suggested)
• French regions (50% rescaling factor suggested)
• German states (40% rescaling factor suggested)
• Image:BlankMap-RussiaDistricts.png
• Image:BlankMap-RussiaFederalDistricts.png
• Image:BlankMap-EnglandRegions.png
• Image:BlankMap-EnglandCeremonialCounties.png
• Image:BlankMap-EnglandAdministrativeCounties.png
• Image:BlankMap-EnglandAdministrativeCounties1974.png
• Image:BlankMap-EnglandSubdivisions.png
• Image:BlankMap-LondonBoroughs.png
• Image:Scotland1996Blank.png
• Image:Wales1996Blank.png
• Image:GreekPerepheriesBlank.png
• Image:Soviet Union Map.png
• Image:BlankMap-RussiaRepublics.png - Modified version of Morwen's Image:BlankMap-RussiaDistricts.png
• Image:BlankMap-Switzerland.png

[edit] Africa

[edit] National

• Image:BlankMap-Nigeria-states.PNG Nigerian states

[edit] North America

[edit] National

• Image:Map of USA.png United states with outlines for individual states.
• Image:BlankMap-USA-states.png US states, grey and white style similar to Vardion's world maps.

[edit] Subnational

• Image:Map of Florida.png (blank, with county boundaries shown)

[edit] Caribbean / Central America

• Image:BlankMap-Caribbean.png - The Caribbean, including part of South America, part of Central America, and part of Florida. Shows most significant islands, including all the small independent countries (such as Saint Lucia or Dominica). 419 x 445 pixels, 3 064 bytes.

• Image:BlankMap-Caribbean-in-world.png - Same as above, but with added location in world box. 419 x 445 pixels, 10 514 bytes.

[edit] National

• Mexican states (33% rescaling factor suggested)
• Costa Rica provinces (30% rescaling factor suggested)

[edit] South America

[edit] National

• Brazilian states (25% rescaling factor suggested)
• Argentina provinces (30% rescaling factor suggested)

[edit] Asia

[edit] National

• Thailand provinces (20% rescaling factor suggested)
• Image:BlankMap-AfghanistanProvinces.png
• China blank map-1.png - People's Republic of China
• China blank map-2.png - People's Republic of China
• Hong Kong District Locator (template map).png - Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China
• Macau Parish Locator (template map).png - Macau Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China
• Map of China (1912-1949).png - Republic of China before Civil War
• Image:India-locator-map-blank.svg - India - New version
• Image:India-states-map-blank.png - India - Old version
• Image:BlankMap-PersianGulf.png - the Persian Gulf area, showing all of Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates, as well as large parts of other countries like Saudi Arabia, Oman, Iran, and Iraq. 359 x 251 pixels, 3 271 bytes.
• Image:BlankMap-Caucasus.png Caucasus region national borders.

[edit] Oceania

[edit] National

• Image:BlankMap Australia.png no borders.

[edit] Time periods

• 820, 1840, 1861, 1866 and 1872 world blank maps
• Image:BlankMap-World-WWI.PNG - blank map of the world from around the time of World War I
• Image:BlankMap-World-1921.png
• Image:BlankMap-World-WWII.PNG - blank map of the world from around the time of World War II.
• Image:BlankMap-World-1957.png
• Image:BlankMap-World-1985.png - a blank map of the world before the fall of the Soviet Union, the reunification of Germany (including West Berlin), and Yemen, and dissolution of Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia, and the independence of East Timor and Eritrea. Nominally from 1985.
• 1990, 2000 blank world maps.

[edit] Hemisphere maps

These are azimuthal orthographic projections of the Earth from four sides plus the poles. 726x726 pixels, aliased. XCFs have separate layers for water, land, coastlines, political borders, political borders over water (not shown in PNGs), and latitude & longitude gridlines (not shown in PNGs).

• Image:Blankmap-ao-000 -africa europe.png [XCF]
• Image:Blankmap-ao-090W-americas.png [XCF]
• Image:Blankmap-ao-180W-oceania.png [XCF]
• Image:Blankmap-ao-270W-asia.png [XCF]
• Image:Blankmap-ao-090N-north pole.png [XCF]
• Image:Blankmap-ao-090S-south pole.png [XCF]

[edit] Other

• Image:BlankMap-World-Subdivisions.PNG - A world map with the subdivisions of the US, Canada, UK, Australia, Russia, China, India, Argentina, Brazil, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Congo and Mexico. Feel free to modify and add more subdivisions.
• Image:BlankMap-World-noborders.png - A world map without country borders. (User:Pcb21)
• Image:BlankMap-World-USA.png - World map with U.S. states marked
• Image:BlankMap-World-v5-EU.png - World map with EU as one country
• Image:BlankMap-World-Continents.PNG - World map with continents marked, no country borders. Based on map found at continents. Excludes Antarctica (User:Max naylor)
• Image:BlankMap-World-Continents-Coloured.PNG - World map with continents marked, no country borders, contintents colour-coded. Excludes Antarctica (User:Max naylor)
• Image:Antarctica Map.png South pole in the center, also shows the subantarctic islands.

[edit] Libre Map Project boundary maps

Libre Map Project boundary maps - Includes United States boundary maps for all 50 states and territories including state, county, and county subdivision maps in SVG format. All maps released under the BY-SA Creative Commons license.

[edit] Blank maps derived from OMC

• http://www.aquarius.ifm-geomar.de/omc/make_map.html

This is a web interface, © 1996 - 2004 Martin Weinelt, generating maps using GMT (The Generic Mapping Tools), from public domain vector data. The resulting maps should be in the public domain.

These maps show elevation and main rivers, but no modern boundaries. They are intended for use in archaeological/historical contexts (Kurgan, Ancient Orient, Neolithic Europe, etc.)

• Image:Pontic caspian blank map.png,
• Image:Europe 34 62 -12 54 blank map.png,
• Image:Northern india blank map.png,
• Image:Orient 27 43 22 55 blank map.png,
• Image:Greece 34 43 17 30 blank map.png,
• Image:Urals blank map.png

[edit] See also

• Wikipedia:Map
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Maps
• Special:Prefixindex/Image:BlankMap
• User:Brion VIBBER/Maps and images for Wikipedia (continents)
• user:seav#Other Graphics (The Philippines)
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Chinese provinces/Locator maps - locator maps for Chinese provinces]]
• List of subnational entities shows many of these maps
• commons:Category:Maps