Blank map of the Americas

The outline of the Americas turns up as a masthead on a newsletter, the backdrop of a global sales slide, a travel-blog header or the centrepiece of a classroom display. The page offers Outline only, the land as a single shape, and With borders, which separates the 52 countries and territories on the map. Both come as a PNG on a transparent background, an SVG or a PDF.

In documents and slides

Because the PNG has a transparent background, you can lay it over a gradient, a photograph or a plain brand colour on a title slide and nothing sits around it. Stretch it across the full width of a report cover and put the title in the space beside it, or use it small as a section marker in a long deck.

For designers and makers

The SVG matters most on a map with this many pieces. In a design tool you can select one country, fill it and leave the rest pale, thicken the borders for print or send the outline to a cutter for a wall display. Because every shape is separate in With borders, restyling is a matter of clicking.

Reports and handouts

A project report can use the With borders PNG as a header on each page, with the countries a section covers filled in one colour in a drawing tool and the rest left pale. With 52 shapes, the list further down this page is a handy check on spelling when you write the captions.

Version and file

With borders is the political blank map of the Americas, the one to choose when countries must be told apart; Outline only suits a small icon or a pale pattern. Use the PNG for slides and documents, the SVG for redrawing and the PDF for A4 or Letter. For print choices, see the printable map of the Americas.