Blank South America map maker
This South America map maker opens the 12 countries of South America as one blank map. Each one is a separate clickable shape, and even the smallest of them is easy to hit. 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 south america map, south america countries map, south america map maker, blank map of south america, color a map of south america.
Free. No account needed. Export a PNG.
Every country on the South America map
Each one is its own shape, and every one of them is listed here.
- Argentina
- Bolivia
- Brazil
- Chile
- Colombia
- Ecuador
- Guyana
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Suriname
- Uruguay
- Venezuela
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 |
|---|---|
| Argentina | 24 provinces |
| Bolivia | 9 regions |
| Brazil | 27 states |
| Chile | 16 regions |
| Colombia | 32 departments |
| Ecuador | 24 regions |
| Guyana | 10 regions |
| Paraguay | 18 regions |
| Peru | 26 departments |
| Suriname | 10 regions |
| Uruguay | 19 regions |
| Venezuela | 24 states |
239 shapes with all of them open
How to make a blank South America map
- Open the South America map. Start from the button above and the editor opens on this map, with the 12 countries already selected and nothing painted. They are all listed further down this page. For a finer map, 12 of them can be opened into their own states, provinces and regions, which is 239 shapes instead of 12.
- 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 South America show up in the community list at the bottom of this page.
What you can do
- All 12 countries of South America, each a separate clickable shape.
- A detailed version: 12 of these countries open into their own states, provinces and regions, 239 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 South America map
Elections and politics
Who is in power, which way a bloc voted, results by country across an election cycle. Twelve shapes is few enough that a reader takes the whole continent in at once.
Football
Copa Libertadores runs, World Cup qualifying, who has ever won what. The continent fits in a post and every country on it has a stake in the argument.
Where you have been in South 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 12 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, 12 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 South America map?
12, every one of them a separate shape you can click and fill. The list above runs from Argentina to Venezuela.
Which countries count as South America here?
Twelve countries, and French Guiana is not one of them: it is part of France, so it is drawn with the French remote territories on the world map rather than as a country here. Twelve shapes is the smallest of these maps, which makes it the one where region labels genuinely fit.
Can I colour the regions inside a country?
Yes. 12 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 239 shapes instead of 12.
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.