Blank France map maker
This France map maker gives you the 96 departments as one blank map. The map is drawn at department level, the numbered divisions everyone knows from car plates. Click a department to fill it, write the legend in your own words, and download a PNG. Nothing to install and no account needed.
Also known as: blank france map, france departments map, france departments map, carte de france vierge, color a map of france.
Free. No account needed. Export a PNG.
What you can colour on the France map
Every department is its own shape, and every one of them is listed here.
- Ain
- Aisne
- Allier
- Alpes-de-Haute-Provence
- Alpes-Maritimes
- Ardèche
- Ardennes
- Ariège
- Aube
- Aude
- Aveyron
- Bas-Rhin
- Bouches-du-Rhône
- Calvados
- Cantal
- Charente
- Charente-Maritime
- Cher
- Corrèze
- Corse-du-Sud
- Côte-d'Or
- Côtes d'Armor
- Creuse
- Deux-Sèvres
- Dordogne
- Doubs
- Drôme
- Essonne
- Eure
- Eure-et-Loir
- Finistère
- Gard
- Gers
- Gironde
- Haut-Rhin
- Haute-Corse
- Haute-Garonne
- Haute-Loire
- Haute-Marne
- Haute-Saône
- Haute-Savoie
- Haute-Vienne
- Hautes-Alpes
- Hautes-Pyrénées
- Hauts-de-Seine
- Hérault
- Ille-et-Vilaine
- Indre
- Indre-et-Loire
- Isère
- Jura
- Landes
- Loir-et-Cher
- Loire
- Loire-Atlantique
- Loiret
- Lot
- Lot-et-Garonne
- Lozère
- Maine-et-Loire
- Manche
- Marne
- Mayenne
- Meurthe-et-Moselle
- Meuse
- Morbihan
- Moselle
- Nièvre
- Nord
- Oise
- Orne
- Paris
- Pas-de-Calais
- Puy-de-Dôme
- Pyrénées-Atlantiques
- Pyrénées-Orientales
- Rhône
- Saône-et-Loire
- Sarthe
- Savoie
- Seine-et-Marne
- Seine-Maritime
- Seine-Saint-Denis
- Somme
- Tarn
- Tarn-et-Garonne
- Territoire de Belfort
- Val-d'Oise
- Val-de-Marne
- Var
- Vaucluse
- Vendée
- Vienne
- Vosges
- Yonne
- Yvelines
How to make a blank France map
- Open the France map. Start from the button above. What a click paints here is one department, and there are 96 of them, all listed further down this page. Check that list before you start: it is the whole of what this map can colour.
- Write the legend before you paint. Add one entry per category and say what it means in your own words. The legend is part of the exported image, so a map that made sense to you at midnight still makes sense to someone who sees it cold.
- Fill the departments. Every click paints one department. With 96 of them, the fastest route is often to fill everything in a baseline colour first and then paint the exceptions, or to paste a table of values and let the colour scale do it.
- Export or publish. Download a PNG, JPEG, SVG or PDF at the size you ask for, or publish for a link with a preview image. Published maps show up in the community list at the bottom of this page.
What you can do
- All 96 departments, each a separate clickable shape.
- Flat colours, or stripe, dot and checkerboard patterns for the categories that would otherwise look alike.
- Colour by numbers: paste a table of names and values and the map fills itself in on a scale you choose.
- A legend you write yourself, with a heading, dragged wherever the map has room.
- Names or codes printed on the departments, on or off, in a colour you pick.
- Fill every department you have not touched in one action, or clear the whole map in one colour.
- Backgrounds, borders and border colours are all editable, or turn the borders off entirely.
- Crop the exported view, so the map fills the frame instead of floating in it.
- PNG, JPEG, SVG and PDF export at the end, with nothing to install first.
Make your own blank France map
Elections, round by round
Presidential and legislative results read well at department level: fine enough to show where a vote split, coarse enough to still be legible when someone opens it on a phone.
Food, wine and regional pride
Cheeses, wine regions, what a pain au chocolat is called. Departments are the level these arguments are actually fought at, and the map is the standard way they get settled.
Where you have been in France
The departments you have visited, lived in, worked in or only passed through. Three colours and a legend that says what each one means, and 96 shapes is small enough to finish in one sitting.
France with its neighbours
The world map can carry France and any other countries you pick on one board, and can open several of them into their own regions at once. That is the map for anything that does not stop at a border.
Other map makers
Common questions
How many departments are on the France map?
96, every one of them a separate shape you can click and fill. The list above runs from Ain to Yvelines.
What exactly does this map cover?
The metropolitan departments are on this map. The overseas departments are not in this set: they live on the world map, where France can be switched on with its remote territories.
Can I colour something smaller than a department?
Not on this map. It works at department level, which is the level nearly every map of France is drawn at.
Can I put the names on the map itself?
Yes. Region labels can be switched on for the whole map, in a colour and size you choose, and you can write your own text for any department where the real name is too long to fit. On a busy map most people leave the labels off and let the legend carry it.
Can I put France on a map with other countries?
Yes, on the world map. Pick the countries you want, and open any of them into their own regions, so France can appear at this level of detail beside its neighbours at theirs.
Do I need an account?
No. The editor opens straight away, the map stays in this browser while you work, and exporting an image never asks you to sign in. An account only matters if you want to publish a map at a link other people can open.
Can I use the exported map commercially?
The image is yours, and we ask for no credit: the only mark on it is the site address in small type in the bottom corner, and nothing is drawn across the map. Nothing from the map data is added to the picture either, because we only ship boundary data whose licence is satisfied by naming it on our credits page, so there is no credit line to print and nothing for you to pass on. Anything you add to the map stays your own.