Blank North America map maker
This North America map maker opens the 25 countries of North America as one blank map. Canada, the United States and Mexico are on it, and so are Central America, Greenland and the Caribbean. 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 north america map, north america countries map, north america map maker, blank map of north america, color a map of north america.
Free. No account needed. Export a PNG.
Every country on the North America map
Each one is its own shape, and every one of them is listed here.
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Barbados
- Belize
- Canada
- Costa Rica
- Cuba
- Dominica
- Dominican Republic
- El Salvador
- Greenland
- Grenada
- Guatemala
- Haiti
- Honduras
- Jamaica
- Mexico
- Nicaragua
- Panama
- Puerto Rico
- Saint Kitts and Nevis
- Saint Lucia
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- The Bahamas
- Trinidad and Tobago
- United States of America
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 |
|---|---|
| Antigua and Barbuda | 8 regions |
| Barbados | 11 regions |
| Belize | 6 regions |
| Canada | 13 provinces |
| Costa Rica | 7 regions |
| Cuba | 16 regions |
| Dominica | 10 regions |
| Dominican Republic | 32 regions |
| El Salvador | 14 regions |
| Greenland | 6 regions |
| Grenada | 7 regions |
| Guatemala | 22 regions |
| Haiti | 10 regions |
| Honduras | 18 regions |
| Jamaica | 14 regions |
| Mexico | 32 states |
| Nicaragua | 17 regions |
| Panama | 12 regions |
| Saint Lucia | 10 regions |
| The Bahamas | 22 regions |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 16 regions |
| United States of America | 51 states |
354 shapes with all of them open
How to make a blank North America map
- Open the North America map. Start from the button above and the editor opens on this map, with the 25 countries already selected and nothing painted. They are all listed further down this page. For a finer map, 22 of them can be opened into their own states, provinces and regions, which is 354 shapes instead of 25.
- 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 North America show up in the community list at the bottom of this page.
What you can do
- All 25 countries of North America, each a separate clickable shape.
- A detailed version: 22 of these countries open into their own states, provinces and regions, 354 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 North America map
Trade and borders
Trade agreements, tariffs, migration routes, who needs a visa for where. The continent reads as three big shapes and twenty small ones, so the small ones need the legend to do the talking.
Sport and culture across the continent
World Cup hosts and qualifiers, baseball leagues, where a chain has stores, how far a franchise reaches. These travel well because most people can name every shape on the map.
Where you have been in North America
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 25 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, 22 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 North America map?
25, every one of them a separate shape you can click and fill. The list above runs from Antigua and Barbuda to United States of America.
Which countries count as North America here?
This is the whole continent rather than the three big countries: it runs from Greenland down to Panama and takes in the Caribbean island states and Puerto Rico. If the Caribbean alone is what you are after, it has a page and a map of its own.
Can I colour the regions inside a country?
Yes. 22 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 354 shapes instead of 25.
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.