Blank map of Asia

An outline of Asia goes into the things people make about the continent: a regional slide for a company with offices from Turkey to Japan, a worksheet a teacher lays out in their own template, a cover for a travel zine, a menu graphic for a restaurant. With borders draws the 54 countries and territories, and Outline only gives the land as one shape; each comes as a transparent PNG, an SVG or a PDF.

In a design tool

The SVG is where most design work starts. In Illustrator, Inkscape or Figma each country of With borders can be picked out and filled on its own, so a travel agency can highlight the countries in this season's brochure and leave the rest as fine lines. Outline only turns into a silhouette for a logo sketch, a pattern on packaging or a cut vinyl decal.

Quizzes and starters

For a "which shape is this?" starter, copy With borders into your slide software, fill Japan or the Philippines in a bright colour and ask the class to name it. A worksheet can put the PNG beside a table of population figures the teacher provides, with a box on each of the most populous countries for pupils to write the figure in; the list further down this page names every country. Older pupils can be handed Outline only and asked to sketch where China, India and Indonesia sit before they check against the political version.

Choosing your file

The political blank map of Asia is the With borders version. Pick it for anything about countries; pick Outline only when the map is small, decorative or a backdrop. The PNG drops into slides and documents with its transparent background; the SVG suits work that will be restyled or printed large; the PDF prints on A4 or Letter as it is. For colours, names or a title, Customise this map opens the outline in the editor, or start from the editable map of Asia. The blank map of East Asia zooms in on one part of the continent.