Sources & credits

Map data comes from the sources below. Boundaries are simplified and illustrative; they do not represent any political position.

World, continents, subdivisions

• Natural Earth — countries (1:50m) and first-level subdivisions (1:10m). Public domain.
• Rivers: Natural Earth rivers and lake centerlines (1:10m). Public domain.
• Flags: country-flag-icons by Nikolay Kuchumov, MIT License.
• United Nations, Map No. 103.1(b), Plan of Partition with Economic Union (1947; February 1956 edition) — the 1947 UN plan option on World Simple, traced from the scan. Public domain.

Countries

• geoBoundaries (Runfola et al., 2020, William & Mary geoLab) — Germany, France, United Kingdom, Spain, Italy, Brazil, Japan, India, Russia, Ukraine, Canada, Australia, South Korea, Taiwan, Mexico, Indonesia, Turkey, Poland, Netherlands, Nigeria, South Africa, Argentina, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Egypt, Vietnam, Philippines, Pakistan. Licensed per country (mostly CC BY 4.0, some ODbL). Underlying sources include:
  • Germany — BKG (Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy)
  • France — IGN
  • United Kingdom — ONS / Eurostat
  • Spain — IGN / INE
  • Italy — ISTAT
  • Brazil — IBGE
  • India — DataMeet
  • Japan, Russia, Ukraine — © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)
  • Ukraine raions (2020 reform) — OCHA via HDX
  • Saudi Arabia, Iran, Egypt (governorates) — © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)
  • Kafia Kingi (disputed area) — © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)
  • Subdivision maps (Slovenia, Kosovo, Uganda, Sardinia) — geoBoundaries; Slovenia, Kosovo © OpenStreetMap contributors
  • Egypt districts — CAPMAS / OCHA via HDX; Vietnam — Government of Viet Nam / OCHA; Philippines — NAMRIA, PSA / OCHA
  • Disputed areas added to Egypt, Vietnam, the Philippines and Pakistan — Natural Earth and geoBoundaries, approximate
  • Finland, Portugal, Hungary, Cuba, Thailand, Malaysia, Kazakhstan, Morocco, Algeria, DR Congo, Tanzania (in part) — © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)
  • Switzerland — © swisstopo; Norway — Kartverket / Geonorge; Sweden — Lantmäteriet / Wikimedia Commons; Austria — BEV; Czechia — ČÚZK; Romania — ANCPI; Greece — EuroGeographics; Belgium — Statbel; Colombia — DANE; Chile — BCN / OCHA; Peru — IGN / OCHA; Venezuela — INE / OCHA; Bangladesh — BBS / OCHA; Iraq — CSO / OCHA; Israel — Wikimedia Commons; Kenya — IEBC / OCHA; Ethiopia — Code for Ethiopia; New Zealand — Stats NZ
  • Disputed areas added to Morocco and Israel — Natural Earth, approximate
• North Korea counties — WFP / OCHA via HDX.
• United States counties — us-atlas, from U.S. Census Bureau cartographic boundary files.
• U.S. congressional districts (119th Congress) — U.S. Census Bureau, cb_2024_us_cd119_5m. Public domain.
• Electoral votes — 2020 Census apportionment.

History

• CShapes 2.0 (Schvitz et al., 2022, ETH Zurich) — historical borders (History menu). CC BY-NC-SA 4.0: non-commercial use only; the map data made from it is shared under the same license.
• CShapes-Europe (Cederman et al., 2025, ETH Zurich) — Europe before 1886. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

China

• Taiwan (constitutional view) — provinces reconstructed from DataV counties and a historical 1948 administrative map, approximate.

Software

• D3, d3-geo-projection, topojson-client — ISC license.

What's new

UnnamedMap is in preview. Everything below is included so far.

PreviewNovember 2026

• World, World Subdivisions and continent maps.
• Fill from list, Data mode: the legend can be a gradient bar with the lowest and highest value, and hovering a region shows its value. Map search finds regions at every level and zooms to them with a highlight.
• Lakes are drawn in white on every map; the Map box's Lakes menu shows large ones only (default), all, or none.
• Map box: rivers (major ones only, or all) and a graticule every 10°, 15° or 30°. A new fill, Country flag (last in the Pattern picker), paints each region with its country's flag.
• World Simple: choose who holds disputed areas (Crimea, Kosovo, Somaliland, Northern Cyprus, Western Sahara, Taiwan, Siachen, Kashmir and the China–India border, Israel and Palestine, Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson, Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Transnistria, the Southern Kurils, Guayana Esequiba, Sabah, Halaib and Bir Tawil) in the Borders box.
• Taiwan menu: “Republic of China claims” shows the territory claimed under the ROC constitution as one China (World Simple) or as the 1947 provinces (Subdivisions maps).
• World Subdivisions, Europe, Asia and Africa: the same disputed-area menus, which choose the country each region counts under, including the 1947 UN plan; Aksai Chin and the Shaksgam Valley are now regions of their own.
• More disputed areas: the Golan Heights, Abyei, Kafia Kingi, the Ilemi Triangle, Belize, and Antarctica’s territorial claims.
• Country maps: Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Egypt, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Iran, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Poland, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Taiwan, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States, Vietnam, with overseas territories in inset boxes.
• 29 more country maps, from Algeria to Venezuela, with Boundaries views for Morocco, Israel and Venezuela.
• United States: its own menu with counties, Congressional districts (119th Congress), Electoral College, Senate and governors. Election maps rate each state Safe, Likely, Lean or Tilt for up to four candidates, with a vote bar, path to 270, margins, tile and hexagon layouts, and 2010, 2020 or projected 2030 electoral votes.
• US House: rate all 435 districts and track the race to 218, on the map or with one hexagon per seat.
• History map: the world’s borders in any year from 1886 to 2019 (Europe from 1815), with an era timeline; colors follow each country from year to year.
• Boundaries menu with Standard, Official claims and De facto views for countries with disputed borders; a South China Sea islands show/hide option.
• Globe mode with animated transitions, and 18 world projections.
• Auto color: one click colors every region so that neighbors never share a color.
• Pattern fills, so a region can belong to two groups.
• Fill from list: paste names, or CSV data with automatic classes and legend labels.
• Annotate: text, pins, straight or curved arrows, and dashed or dotted borders.
• Legend drawn on the map, movable and resizable, with font choices.
• Built-in color picker for legend colors, with HEX, RGB and HSL input and an eyedropper.
• Export to PNG (up to 7680 px) and SVG; Download / Import to save your work.
• Drag the edge between the map and the panel to make the panel bigger or smaller (remembered; Reset under Style).
• Language menu at the top right with 23 languages.
• Keyboard shortcuts for most tools; press ? (or the Shortcuts button at the top of the panel) to see them all.

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