Blank New Zealand map maker
This New Zealand map maker gives you the 17 regions as one blank map. The map is drawn at region level, across both main islands. Click a region 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 new zealand map, new zealand regions map, new zealand regions map, nz map maker, color a map of new zealand.
Free. No account needed. Export a PNG.
What you can colour on the New Zealand map
Every region is its own shape, and every one of them is listed here.
- Auckland
- Auckland Islands
- Bay of Plenty
- Canterbury
- Gisborne District
- Hawke's Bay
- Manawatu-Wanganui
- Marlborough District
- Nelson City
- Northland
- Otago
- Southland
- Taranaki
- Tasman District
- Waikato
- Wellington
- West Coast
How to make a blank New Zealand map
- Open the New Zealand map. Start from the button above. What a click paints here is one region, and there are 17 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 regions. Every click paints one region. With 17 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 17 regions, 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 regions, on or off, in a colour you pick.
- Fill every region 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 New Zealand map
Elections and population
General election results, turnout, where the growth is going. Auckland is roughly a third of the country inside one shape, which every New Zealand map has to account for.
Travel and weather
Where you have been, rainfall, sunshine hours, the tracks you have walked. Seventeen shapes is a map you finish in a couple of minutes.
Where you have been in New Zealand
The regions you have visited, lived in, worked in or only passed through. Three colours and a legend that says what each one means, and 17 shapes is small enough to finish in one sitting.
New Zealand with its neighbours
The world map can carry New Zealand 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 regions are on the New Zealand map?
17, every one of them a separate shape you can click and fill. The list above runs from Auckland to West Coast.
What exactly does this map cover?
The Auckland Islands are in the set as their own region, far to the south of the South Island, so the frame is taller than a map of the two main islands alone.
Can I colour something smaller than a region?
Not on this map. It works at region level, which is the level nearly every map of New Zealand 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 region 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 New Zealand 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 New Zealand 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.