Blank Middle East map maker
This Middle East map maker opens the 17 countries of the Middle East as one blank map. The Arabian peninsula, the Levant, Iran and Iraq, with Turkey, Cyprus and Egypt included. Click a country 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 middle east map, middle east countries map, middle east map maker, blank map of the middle east, color a map of middle east.
Free. No account needed. Export a PNG.
Every country on the Middle East map
Each one is its own shape, and every one of them is listed here.
- Bahrain
- Cyprus
- Egypt
- Iran
- Iraq
- Israel
- Jordan
- Kuwait
- Lebanon
- Oman
- Palestine
- Qatar
- Saudi Arabia
- Syria
- Turkey
- United Arab Emirates
- Yemen
Countries you can open into their own regions
Open one of these on the same map and it stops being a single shape. The rest stay as they are.
| Country | Shapes it opens into |
|---|---|
| Bahrain | 4 regions |
| Cyprus | 5 regions |
| Egypt | 27 governorates |
| Gaza Strip | 2 regions |
| Iran | 31 provinces |
| Iraq | 18 governorates |
| Israel | 6 regions |
| Jordan | 12 regions |
| Lebanon | 6 regions |
| Oman | 11 regions |
| Qatar | 7 regions |
| Saudi Arabia | 13 regions |
| Syria | 15 regions |
| Turkey | 81 provinces |
| United Arab Emirates | 9 regions |
| Yemen | 21 regions |
268 shapes with all of them open
How to make a blank Middle East map
- Open the Middle East map. Start from the button above and the editor opens on this map, with the 17 countries already selected and nothing painted. They are all listed further down this page. For a finer map, 16 of them can be opened into their own states, provinces and regions, which is 268 shapes instead of 17.
- 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 countries. Every click paints one country. Fill everything you have not touched in a baseline colour first and paint the exceptions on top, or paste a table of country names 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. Published maps of the Middle East show up in the community list at the bottom of this page.
What you can do
- All 17 countries of the Middle East, each a separate clickable shape.
- A detailed version: 16 of these countries open into their own states, provinces and regions, 268 shapes in all.
- Flat colours, or stripe, dot and checkerboard patterns for the categories that would otherwise look alike.
- Colour by numbers: paste a table of countries 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.
- Country names or codes printed on the map, on or off, in a colour you pick.
- Add or drop a country before you start, and the view refits to whatever is left on the board.
- Backgrounds, borders and border colours are all editable, or turn the borders off entirely.
- PNG, JPEG, SVG and PDF export, with nothing drawn across the map and no export limit.
Make your own blank Middle East map
Alliances, conflicts and sanctions
Who is aligned with whom, who recognises whom, how far a conflict has spread. This is the map where the legend matters more than the colours: say exactly what each category means, and date it.
Oil, water and pipelines
Producers and importers, desalination, where a pipeline runs and whose territory it crosses. Seventeen shapes leaves room to label the map itself rather than leaning on the legend alone.
Where you have been in the Middle East
The countries you have visited, lived in, worked in or only changed planes in. Three colours and a legend that says what each one means, and 17 shapes is small enough to finish in one sitting.
Something the country map is too coarse for
When a whole country is too big a unit for what you are showing, 16 of them can be opened into their own regions on this same map, so one country can carry its internal detail while its neighbours stay solid.
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Common questions
How many countries are on the Middle East map?
17, every one of them a separate shape you can click and fill. The list above runs from Bahrain to Yemen.
Which countries count as the Middle East here?
Where the Middle East starts and stops is not something anyone agrees on, so this is a written list rather than a definition: seventeen countries, with Turkey, Cyprus and Egypt in and Afghanistan and Pakistan out. Israel and Palestine are drawn as separate shapes. For a different list, the same selection is a tile on the create screen with these seventeen already ticked, so countries can be added and dropped before the map is made.
Can I colour the regions inside a country?
Yes. 16 of these countries carry their own subdivision data, so one can be opened into its states, provinces or regions while the rest stay solid, and opening all of them gives 268 shapes instead of 17.
Can I add a country that is not on this map?
Yes, but from the create screen rather than from this button: the same selection is a tile there with these countries already ticked, so you can add and drop before the map is made. The frame refits to whatever ends up on the board.
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.