Blank map of Europe

People who download an outline of Europe are mostly putting it into something of their own: a slide on European sales, a worksheet for a unit on the continent, a poster for a school trip, the header of a travel newsletter. With borders draws the 51 countries and territories; Outline only keeps the continent as one shape. Each version comes as a PNG on a transparent background, an SVG or a PDF.

A worksheet in your own layout

Paste the PNG of With borders into a word processor and set five postcards or photos the class has collected around it; pupils draw an arrow from each one to the country it came from, and the list further down this page settles any argument. For a harder round, use Outline only and ask pupils to draw in the borders of Germany, France and Poland from memory before they label them.

Decks and reports

For a European team, the transparent PNG sits on a title slide in the company's colours, with offices or market names beside it. In a report, a small outline of the continent in the corner of each page tells readers which region the figures cover.

Design work

The SVG opens in Illustrator, Inkscape or Figma, where every country of With borders is its own shape. Fill the countries a tour visits, set the rest in a pale tint and you have a gig poster or a trip graphic. Outline only makes a single silhouette for an icon, a stamp or a cut-out for a display board.

The version and the file

The political blank map of Europe is the With borders version, the one to take whenever the countries need telling apart. The PNG suits slides and documents, the SVG anything you will restyle or enlarge, and the PDF a copy for A4 or Letter. Black and white and other print choices are on the printable map of Europe; for names or colours, Customise this map opens the outline in the editor. The blank map of the European Union shows only the EU's members.