Blank map of Niger

Niger's shape is wanted for slides more often than for exercises: a market in Western Africa, a programme overview, a map beside a few figures. This page gives you the outline as a file, in two versions. Outline only is the shape alone; With borders adds Niger's 8 administrative areas. Each comes as a PNG on a transparent background, an SVG and a PDF.

On a slide

Drop the PNG on a dark slide and only the outline shows, since the background is transparent. Put a heading on one side and three short points on the other. If the slide deals with a region, add the shapes of other countries from their own blank pages, such as the blank map of Mali or the blank map of Chad, and arrange them around Niger.

Notes on the eight areas

With borders is the political blank map of Niger, with its 8 areas drawn in and none named. That is few enough to set a text box beside each one on a briefing page: Agadez, Diffa, Dosso, Maradi, Niamey, Tahoua, Tillabéri and Zinder, with the list further down this page for the spellings. For a cover, colour Outline only and add a note under the title to say it is Niger and not Nigeria.

Design

The SVG opens in Illustrator, Inkscape or Figma. There, the 8 areas are separate shapes, so one can be coloured on its own and the others left pale. Because it is a vector file, it scales to a poster or a report cover without going blurry.

When you need more

Names, colours, a title or pins on the map itself need the editor: Customise this map opens the same outline there. For print choices such as black and white or A4 against Letter, the printable map of Niger has them.