Blank Netherlands map maker
This Netherlands map maker gives you the 13 provinces as one blank map. The map is drawn at province level, the twelve provinces plus the Caribbean Netherlands. Click a province 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 netherlands map, netherlands provinces map, netherlands provinces map, kaart van nederland, color a map of netherlands.
Free. No account needed. Export a PNG.
What you can colour on the Netherlands map
Every province is its own shape, and every one of them is listed here.
- Bonaire
- Drenthe
- Flevoland
- Friesland
- Gelderland
- Groningen
- Limburg
- Noord-Brabant
- Noord-Holland
- Overijssel
- Utrecht
- Zeeland
- Zuid-Holland
Two levels of detail
The same country, drawn twice. Each one is a starting map of its own.
| Map | Shapes you can colour |
|---|---|
| Provinces | 13 provinces |
| Municipalities | 344 municipalities |
How to make a blank Netherlands map
- Open the Netherlands map. Start from the button above. What a click paints here is one province, and there are 13 of them, all listed further down this page. If you want finer detail than that, the 344 municipalities are a second map of the same country.
- 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 provinces. Every click paints one province. With 13 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 13 provinces, each a separate clickable shape.
- A second, finer map of the same country: 344 municipalities.
- 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 provinces, on or off, in a colour you pick.
- Fill every province 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 Netherlands map
Elections and water
Tweede Kamer results, provincial elections, flood risk, land below sea level. Twelve shapes is small enough that the legend carries the map rather than the other way round.
Football, dialect and the rivers
Eredivisie support, where they say gij, what counts as above the rivers. The provinces are the units these arguments already use, so nobody has to be talked into the map.
Where you have been in the Netherlands
The provinces you have visited, lived in, worked in or only passed through. Three colours and a legend that says what each one means, and 13 shapes is small enough to finish in one sitting.
Something the country map is too coarse for
When a province is too big a unit for what you are showing, the same country is also drawn as 344 municipalities. It is a much slower map to paint by hand, so it is the one to use with a pasted table of values.
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Common questions
How many provinces are on the Netherlands map?
13, every one of them a separate shape you can click and fill. The list above runs from Bonaire to Zuid-Holland.
What exactly does this map cover?
Bonaire is in the set as a thirteenth shape, thousands of kilometres from the rest. A map of the European provinces alone means leaving it uncoloured and cropping the exported view.
Can I colour something smaller than a province?
Yes. The same country is also drawn as 344 municipalities, which is a second starting map rather than a zoom: pick it and every click paints one of those instead.
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 province 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 the Netherlands 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 the Netherlands 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.