Natural Earth
Visit ↗Natural Earth's public-domain cultural vector dataset, which is where our Canada and world regional maps come from. While the United States uses Census TopoJSON and Japan uses GSI Global Map data, Natural Earth provides the administrative division boundaries (states, provinces, prefectures, and territories) for Canada, our admin pilot countries (Thailand, China, Australia, and Taiwan), and 25 additional global countries in our world map library. Their Populated Places dataset supplies the cities every one of our maps can draw, Japan's and the United States' included - those two keep their own outlines and take only the city points. Neighbours are worked out from shared boundary points rather than predefined topology.
A few rows
Chosen from the data, not taken off the top.
United Kingdom
232 divisions drawn
The most finely divided of the thirty countries this dataset gives us.
Austria
9 divisions drawn
And the least.
Prince Edward Island
No land borders
The only Canadian province you cannot walk into.
What we hold
- Regions drawn
- 1,244
- Countries mapped
- 30
- Bordering pairs
- 2,591
- Cities placed
- 1,820
- Last brought in
- todaySep 4, 2026
What we take
- The boundary outlines and regional shapes for Canada, Thailand, China, Australia, Taiwan, and 25 additional world countries
- Neighbouring divisions calculated from shared vertex boundaries, determining which regions border each other for quiz questions and plausible distractors
- From their Populated Places dataset, the position, name, importance rank and capital status of the cities on every map we draw, each set projected onto that country's own canvas so a city sits in the division it belongs to
- Nothing else: native names, readings, flags, and demographic facts are compiled from national statistical agencies, geographic authorities, and reference encyclopedias
Terms
Public domain. Natural Earth's own terms state that no permission is needed and that crediting the authors is unnecessary; they are credited here anyway because readers deserve to know where every boundary on our maps originates.
Countries mapped from Natural Earth
30 countries and administrative divisions with full boundary geometry