Blank world hex map maker
This is the land of the world as 2,030 hexagons, one region each, on a board you colour in. Click a hexagon to take it, name each side in the legend, and the totals count themselves as you paint: 2,030 hexes on the board and 1,016 to hold the world. Download a PNG when it is done. Nothing to install and no account needed.
Also known as: world hex map, hex grid world map, war game map, blank hex map to colour, world conquest map.
Free. No account needed. Export a PNG.
Every country on the board, and how many hexagons it holds
A hexagon belongs to exactly one country. This is where the board is uneven, and it is the number a campaign usually turns on.
| Country | Hexagons |
|---|---|
| Afghanistan | 9 hexes |
| Albania | 1 hex |
| Algeria | 28 hexes |
| Angola | 14 hexes |
| Argentina | 39 hexes |
| Australia | 106 hexes |
| Austria | 1 hex |
| Azerbaijan | 2 hexes |
| Bangladesh | 2 hexes |
| Belarus | 2 hexes |
| Benin | 1 hex |
| Bhutan | 1 hex |
| Bolivia | 13 hexes |
| Botswana | 7 hexes |
| Brazil | 96 hexes |
| Bulgaria | 1 hex |
| Burkina Faso | 3 hexes |
| Cambodia | 1 hex |
| Cameroon | 6 hexes |
| Canada | 207 hexes |
| Central African Republic | 5 hexes |
| Chad | 14 hexes |
| Chile | 16 hexes |
| China | 118 hexes |
| Colombia | 14 hexes |
| Costa Rica | 1 hex |
| Croatia | 1 hex |
| Cuba | 4 hexes |
| Cyprus | 1 hex |
| Czechia | 1 hex |
| Democratic Republic of the Congo | 22 hexes |
| Djibouti | 1 hex |
| Dominican Republic | 1 hex |
| East Timor | 1 hex |
| Ecuador | 3 hexes |
| Egypt | 15 hexes |
| El Salvador | 1 hex |
| Eritrea | 3 hexes |
| Estonia | 1 hex |
| Ethiopia | 10 hexes |
| Finland | 5 hexes |
| France | 11 hexes |
| French Southern and Antarctic Lands | 1 hex |
| Gabon | 3 hexes |
| Gambia | 1 hex |
| Georgia | 2 hexes |
| Germany | 7 hexes |
| Ghana | 3 hexes |
| Greece | 2 hexes |
| Greenland | 62 hexes |
| Guatemala | 2 hexes |
| Guinea | 3 hexes |
| Guinea-Bissau | 1 hex |
| Guyana | 4 hexes |
| Haiti | 1 hex |
| Honduras | 2 hexes |
| Hungary | 2 hexes |
| Iceland | 3 hexes |
| India | 41 hexes |
| Indonesia | 39 hexes |
| Iran | 21 hexes |
| Iraq | 6 hexes |
| Ireland | 3 hexes |
| Israel | 1 hex |
| Italy | 8 hexes |
| Ivory Coast | 3 hexes |
| Jamaica | 1 hex |
| Japan | 10 hexes |
| Jordan | 2 hexes |
| Kazakhstan | 37 hexes |
| Kenya | 7 hexes |
| Kyrgyzstan | 3 hexes |
| Laos | 4 hexes |
| Latvia | 2 hexes |
| Liberia | 1 hex |
| Libya | 19 hexes |
| Lithuania | 1 hex |
| Madagascar | 12 hexes |
| Malawi | 1 hex |
| Malaysia | 5 hexes |
| Mali | 14 hexes |
| Mauritania | 11 hexes |
| Mexico | 27 hexes |
| Moldova | 1 hex |
| Mongolia | 20 hexes |
| Morocco | 10 hexes |
| Mozambique | 12 hexes |
| Myanmar | 8 hexes |
| Namibia | 11 hexes |
| Nepal | 1 hex |
| Netherlands | 1 hex |
| New Zealand | 9 hexes |
| Nicaragua | 2 hexes |
| Niger | 12 hexes |
| Nigeria | 11 hexes |
| North Korea | 4 hexes |
| North Macedonia | 1 hex |
| Norway | 17 hexes |
| Oman | 4 hexes |
| Pakistan | 9 hexes |
| Panama | 2 hexes |
| Papua New Guinea | 11 hexes |
| Paraguay | 4 hexes |
| Peru | 14 hexes |
| Philippines | 9 hexes |
| Poland | 5 hexes |
| Portugal | 2 hexes |
| Republic of Serbia | 1 hex |
| Republic of the Congo | 5 hexes |
| Romania | 4 hexes |
| Russia | 311 hexes |
| São Tomé and Principe | 1 hex |
| Saudi Arabia | 24 hexes |
| Senegal | 2 hexes |
| Sierra Leone | 1 hex |
| Solomon Islands | 3 hexes |
| Somalia | 6 hexes |
| Somaliland | 2 hexes |
| South Africa | 17 hexes |
| South Korea | 3 hexes |
| South Sudan | 6 hexes |
| Spain | 9 hexes |
| Sri Lanka | 2 hexes |
| Sudan | 21 hexes |
| Suriname | 2 hexes |
| Sweden | 8 hexes |
| Syria | 3 hexes |
| Taiwan | 2 hexes |
| Tajikistan | 1 hex |
| Thailand | 8 hexes |
| The Bahamas | 1 hex |
| Togo | 1 hex |
| Tunisia | 3 hexes |
| Turkey | 13 hexes |
| Turkmenistan | 4 hexes |
| Uganda | 3 hexes |
| Ukraine | 9 hexes |
| United Arab Emirates | 1 hex |
| United Kingdom | 5 hexes |
| United Republic of Tanzania | 12 hexes |
| United States of America | 143 hexes |
| Uruguay | 3 hexes |
| Uzbekistan | 7 hexes |
| Vanuatu | 1 hex |
| Venezuela | 11 hexes |
| Vietnam | 5 hexes |
| Western Sahara | 1 hex |
| Yemen | 6 hexes |
| Zambia | 8 hexes |
| Zimbabwe | 4 hexes |
2,030 hexagons across 150 countries.
How to make a blank world hex map
- Open the board. The button above opens the editor on the hex board with nothing taken. Every hexagon is a separate shape, so 2,030 clicks is the whole world, and the map pans and zooms under a finger as well as a mouse.
- Name the sides in the legend. One legend row per side, faction or player, written before you start taking ground. The legend is part of the exported image, so a board that made sense during the game still reads a week later.
- Take hexagons. Each click paints one hexagon in the armed colour, and a drag paints a run of them. When a whole theatre changes hands at once, switch to the Select tool, drag a box or a lasso round it and colour everything caught in one action.
- Watch the totals. Every hexagon counts one, so each legend row carries the number of hexes that colour holds, and a line above the map keeps the running score while you work: so many of 2,030, with 1,016 to win. Isolate one theatre and the total becomes that theatre's; hiding hexagons does not move the target.
- 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. A published board shows up in the community list at the bottom of this page.
What you can do
- 2,030 hexagons of land, each one a separate shape a click takes.
- Every hexagon belongs to one of 150 countries, and they are all listed further down this page with their counts.
- A running tally: each side's hexes in the legend, and 1,016 to hold the board.
- Flat colours, or stripe, dot and checkerboard patterns for contested ground.
- Box, ellipse and lasso selection, so a front line moves in one action instead of forty clicks.
- A legend you write yourself, with a heading, dragged wherever the board has room.
- Hide the hexagons that are out of play, or isolate one theatre and count only it.
- Backgrounds, borders and border colours are all editable, or turn the borders off.
- PNG, JPEG, SVG and PDF export, with nothing drawn across the board and no export limit.
Make your own blank world hex map
A campaign map for a game you are running
One colour per faction, repainted as the campaign moves. The tally does the arithmetic nobody wants to do by hand, and the exported picture is what goes in the post between sessions.
A conquest or risk-style board
Take hexagons rather than countries and the map stops rewarding whoever picked Russia. Every hexagon is worth exactly one, so the score is ground held and nothing else.
An alternate history
Redraw who holds what, without being tied to the borders that actually exist. A hexagon belongs to whoever you paint it for, and the country it sits in is only how this page counts them.
A turn-by-turn record
Export after every turn and the pictures are the history of the game. The exported image is the same size every time, so the frames line up when you post them together.
Reach rather than territory
Where a thing has spread, in even units instead of in countries the size of Canada. A hex map answers "how much of the world" in a way a country map cannot, because a country map is mostly a map of which countries are big.
Other map makers
Common questions
How many hexagons are on the board?
2,030, every one of them a separate shape you can click and take. Antarctica is off the board.
Where does the board come from?
It is generated here rather than copied: a hexagonal grid over the world, keeping the hexagons that fall on land. The published war-game boards people ask for by name are their publishers' own drawings and cannot be republished, so this one was built from the Natural Earth outlines the rest of the site already uses. A hexagon counts as land if any of seven sample points inside it falls in a country, which draws the coastline generously: it is a board, not a source of coastline data.
Why is my country not on it?
A country smaller than one hexagon does not get one, which takes the small island states and the micro-states off the board. The countries that are on it are listed below with their counts, from one hexagon up to 311 for Russia.
Does the map count what each side holds?
Yes. Every hexagon carries a weight of one, so each legend row shows how many hexes that colour holds, and a line above the map reads the score while you work: so many of 2,030, 1,016 to win. The per-side totals are part of the legend, so they are in the exported image too. It is the same machinery the Electoral College map uses for votes, counting hexes instead.
Are the hexagons labelled?
Only if you label them. Every shape on the board is the same size, so the automatic labels that a country or state map prints are off here: a hexagon is identified by where it sits, not by "Canada 74". You can write your own text on any hexagon.
Is this map slow to open?
It is one of the biggest maps on the site: 2,030 separate shapes and about 0.4 MB of map data, so give it a few seconds to open, and longer than that on an older phone. Three things make it easier to work with: zoom in and paint one area at a time rather than the whole map at once, switch the region borders off while you work, and paste a table of values instead of clicking 2,030 hexes by hand.
Do I need an account?
No. The editor opens straight away, the board 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 board at a link other people can open.
Can I use the exported board 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 board. The hexagons are generated by this project rather than taken from a published game, and the land they sit on comes from Natural Earth, which is public domain; both are listed on our credits page.