Blank map of the European Union

A blank map of the European Union is a base for something else: the cover of a policy paper, a diagram of members by category, a labelling task you have built yourself. Take Outline only for the Union as one block of land, or With borders to draw the 27 members apart. Each is a PNG on a transparent background, an SVG or a PDF.

In a report or a deck

For a policy briefing, set the transparent PNG behind a heading and keep the colours muted so a table on top stays readable. In a deck, place With borders on the left of a slide and list the members that matter to your argument on the right. Because the files carry no names, you decide what the labels say.

In a handout

Policy papers and teaching handouts both use the PNG as a header: place With borders at the top of a page and write a few lines on the members the text covers. For younger pupils, Outline only works as a shape-matching starter before the borders come in. The list further down this page gives the spelling of every member.

In a design tool

Open the SVG in Illustrator, Inkscape or Figma and each of the 27 members is its own shape. A designer can fill a few in a brand colour, thicken the borders for a poster or break the outline into pieces for an infographic about members by group. Every member, Malta and Luxembourg included, stays a separate shape you can select, which a screenshot would not give you.

Which version

With borders is the political blank map of the European Union. Outline only is the better backdrop when the Union is only context. For colour and names without leaving the page, use the editable map of the European Union; to print as a class set, the printable map of the European Union has the choices for paper and ink.