Blank map of Western Europe

The outline of Western Europe turns up on the title slide of a European sales review, the cover of a study-abroad brochure, the poster for a European evening at school and the header of a newsletter. With borders splits the region into its 17 countries; Outline only keeps the land as one shape. Either comes as a PNG with a transparent background, an SVG or a PDF.

On slides and in documents

For a European team's deck, place the transparent PNG on the title slide and list the offices or markets beside it, or set it small in the corner of each slide of a quarterly review. In a report or a brochure, the outline makes a quiet header above a section on the region; because the background is transparent, it sits on a coloured band as easily as on white paper.

For designers

The SVG opens in Illustrator, Inkscape or Figma at any size, so it suits work that goes well beyond a screen. Set the borders in a brand colour for an infographic, fill a handful of countries for a campaign graphic, or simplify the outline into a single line for a tote bag or a T-shirt for a school trip. Because each country is its own shape in With borders, a designer can recolour or drop them one by one.

Silhouette or borders

Outline only works best when the map is small or decorative: an icon, a stamp, a pale pattern behind a slide title. With borders is the political blank map of Western Europe, the one to pick whenever the countries need to be told apart. The PNG is the file for slides and documents, the SVG for design work, and the PDF for a copy printed as it is on A4 or Letter. For class sets in black and white, see the printable map of Western Europe; for the whole continent, the blank map of Europe.