Blank Oceania map maker

This Oceania map maker opens the 14 countries of Oceania as one blank map. Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and the Pacific island states, on one board. 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 oceania map, oceania countries map, oceania map maker, pacific islands map, color a map of oceania.

Free. No account needed. Export a PNG.

Every country on the Oceania map

Each one is its own shape, and every one of them is listed here.

  • Australia
  • Federated States of Micronesia
  • Fiji
  • Kiribati
  • Marshall Islands
  • Nauru
  • New Zealand
  • Palau
  • Papua New Guinea
  • Samoa
  • Solomon Islands
  • Tonga
  • Tuvalu
  • Vanuatu

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.

CountryShapes it opens into
Australia10 states
Federated States of Micronesia4 regions
Fiji4 regions
Kiribati2 regions
Marshall Islands2 regions
New Zealand17 regions
Papua New Guinea20 regions
Samoa11 regions
Solomon Islands9 regions
Tonga5 regions
Vanuatu6 regions

90 shapes with all of them open

How to make a blank Oceania map

  1. Open the Oceania map. Start from the button above and the editor opens on this map, with the 14 countries already selected and nothing painted. They are all listed further down this page. For a finer map, 11 of them can be opened into their own states, provinces and regions, which is 90 shapes instead of 14.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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 Oceania show up in the community list at the bottom of this page.

What you can do

  • All 14 countries of Oceania, each a separate clickable shape.
  • A detailed version: 11 of these countries open into their own states, provinces and regions, 90 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 Oceania map

The Pacific at the scale it actually is

Sea level, fishing rights, undersea cables, who recognises whom. Most maps shrink the Pacific into a margin; this one gives the island states the same weight as Australia.

Travel across a lot of water

Where you have been, where a flight goes direct, which islands share a currency or a passport. Fourteen countries and most of them small, so the legend does more work here than the fills do.

Where you have been in Oceania

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 14 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, 11 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.

Common questions

How many countries are on the Oceania map?

14, every one of them a separate shape you can click and fill. The list above runs from Australia to Vanuatu.

Which countries count as Oceania here?

The map opens in the world projection, which is centred on Greenwich, so Kiribati, Fiji, Tonga and Samoa land at the far left of the frame while Australia and New Zealand sit at the right, and the result is a very wide strip. The editor can re-centre it: set Centred On to Pacific in the Layers panel and the same countries are redrawn about the 160th meridian as one block, keeping every colour. New Caledonia and French Polynesia are French territories rather than countries in this data, so they are on the world map with France instead.

Can I colour the regions inside a country?

Yes. 11 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 90 shapes instead of 14.

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.

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