Blank Kenya map maker
This Kenya map maker gives you the 8 counties of Kenya as one blank map. On the world map it shares a land border with Ethiopia, Somalia, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda. Click a county to fill it, write the legend, and download a PNG. Nothing to install and no account needed.
Also known as: blank kenya map, kenya counties map, color a map of kenya.
Free. No account needed. Export a PNG.
What you can colour on the Kenya map
Every county is its own shape, and every one of them is listed here.
- Central
- Coast
- Eastern
- Nairobi
- North-Eastern
- Nyanza
- Rift Valley
- Western
Kenya on the map
Read from the map data this page opens, not typed in.
How to make a blank Kenya map
- Open the Kenya map. Start from the panel above, which is already the editor. What a click paints here is one county. There are 8 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 counties. Every click paints one county. Fill everything in a baseline colour first and then paint the exceptions, or paste a table of counties and 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.
What you can do
- All 8 counties, each a separate clickable shape.
- Kenya beside Ethiopia, Somalia and South Sudan and the rest of its neighbours on one map, from the custom map link below.
- 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 counties, on or off, in a colour you pick.
- Backgrounds, borders and border colours are all editable, or turn the borders off entirely.
- PNG, JPEG, SVG and PDF export at the end, with nothing to install first.
Make your own blank Kenya map
Where things happen in Kenya
Which counties a project, a harvest, a language or a road network covers. Maps of African countries are usually drawn at the national outline by people who have never been there, so a map that shows the counties of Kenya is already saying more than most.
Data by county
Census figures, rainfall, school enrolment, mobile coverage. Paste a table of counties and values and the map shades itself in bands you set, with a legend that says what each band means. A county that has no value stays white rather than pretending.
Where you have been in Kenya
The counties you have visited, lived in, worked in or only passed through. Three colours and a legend that says what each one means, and 8 shapes is small enough to finish in one sitting.
Kenya with its neighbours
The world map can carry Kenya and Ethiopia, Somalia, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda on one board, each country coloured separately, and can open any of them into their own regions. That is the map for anything that does not stop at a border.
Other map makers
Common questions
How many counties are on the Kenya map?
8, every one of them a separate shape you can click and fill. The list above runs from Central to Western. They are the first-level divisions of Kenya as the source data draws them, credited on our credits page, so a merged or disputed area appears the way the source has it.
Which countries border Kenya on this map?
Ethiopia, Somalia, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda. That is read from the world map's own geometry: the countries whose outlines share the border with Kenya. Each one has a map page of its own, linked above.
Is Kenya on a bigger map here too?
Yes. Kenya is one of the countries on the Africa map, and on the world map, where it can be opened into its own counties beside its neighbours at theirs.
Can I colour something smaller than a county?
Not on this map. It works at county level, which is the level nearly every map of Kenya 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 county 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.
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.