Free Printable US Map: Blank, Labeled, States and Capitals

Yes. Print as many copies as you need for your classroom, homeschool, church group or kitchen table, and share the PDF with other teachers. If you post it online, link back to this page so people find the versions and the customizer. Please don't sell the files or cut the small Landmass line out of the margin.

Letter (8.5 by 11 inches) or A4 (210 by 297 mm), landscape or portrait, chosen before you download. Print at 100 percent. The PDF is a vector file, so a copy shop can also print it at 24 by 36 inches, or larger, with no blur.

Yes. The Blank map is exactly that, and in the customizer any version can be set to States: Blank, with or without the capital stars. Turn the title off too for a bare outline.

Each star is placed at the capital's real latitude and longitude, projected onto the map with the same Lambert conformal conic projection as our printed USA map. That is why Carson City sits on the California border and Juneau is out on Alaska's panhandle. The table above lists all 50, with Washington, DC.

Because at true scale Alaska alone would be a fifth the size of the lower 48 and Hawaii would be a speck 2,400 miles off California. Like most classroom maps, this one puts both in insets: Alaska reduced, Hawaii enlarged (1.6 times) so the islands are visible. Their positions and sizes on the sheet are not to scale with the rest.

It is on the map as a dot between Maryland and Virginia and in the key on the right, and it gets a star on the capitals versions because it is the national capital. It is not a state: the District of Columbia is a federal district, so it is not counted in the 50 and not numbered on the quiz.

Rhode Island, Delaware and their neighbors are too small to hold a name at Letter size. Instead of shrinking the type, the nine smallest (Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland and DC) are listed in the ocean with a line to each, the way an atlas does it. On the numbered quiz the list carries their numbers.

Yes, every version. Black and white is the default for the blank, quiz, abbreviation and coloring sheets; the labeled and capitals maps open in color and switch with one tap. In black and white the states are white with ink borders, which photocopies well.

Yes. The borders, stars and text are drawn as vectors with the Jost typeface embedded, so the file stays sharp when you zoom, print large or photocopy. Most free printable US maps are screenshots or scans inside a PDF. This one isn't. The PNG download is a 300 dpi image for places that want an image, like slides.

West to east in columns, north to south inside each column: Oregon is 1, California 2, Washington 3, and Maine is 47 before the Northeast cluster ends at 50. Neighbors get nearby numbers, which makes the sheet easier to grade and lets you quiz one region at a time. Page 2 lists every number with its state.

Yes. Use the PNG for slides and worksheets and the PDF for printing. On a website, post the image and link to this page. For something you sell, a workbook for instance, write to us first through the contact page.

Yes. The picker and the preview fit a phone screen, and the downloads work in Safari and Chrome on iPhone and Android. On an iPhone the PDF opens in Safari; use the share button to save it to Files or send it to a printer with AirPrint. If you only want the files, the list under the tool links straight to them.

A Lambert conformal conic projection centered on 96 degrees west, the usual choice for maps of the contiguous United States, which is why the northern border curves and Maine leans right. The state shapes are the same vectors as our printed USA scratch-off map, simplified slightly for the web.

No. The map shows the 50 states and Washington, DC. Puerto Rico, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa and the Northern Mariana Islands are not on it, and they are not on the printed USA map either.

Not yet. Regions (the five-region map and one sheet per region) are next on the list, along with a national parks checklist map. Tell us what you would use through the contact page and we will build the ones people ask for.