A Printable Blank Map of North America for Labeling

Are you exploring the vast continent of North America with your students? You’re going to need a map!

Use this unlabeled, black-and-white map of North America to help your students become more familiar with the natural and human features of this diverse continent.

Using This Map of North America Worksheet

This blank map of North America makes a great addition to your Social Studies resources and can be used in a multitude of ways in your classroom. Here are some suggestions:

Label key locations as a whole-class activity

This versatile North American map can be projected onto your interactive whiteboard for a paperless lesson or class review session. Have students take turns coming to the board to locate and label key locations on the blank map using a whiteboard marker.

Create a progressive map of North America

At the beginning of a unit of work on North America, provide students with their own printed copy of the blank North America map. As students learn more about the landforms of the continent, they can add more and more detail to their maps, including the following significant features:

• Capitals of the United States, Canada, Mexico and other North American countries
• Major rivers of North America such as the Mississippi and the Rio Grande
• Lakes such as Canada’s Great Bear Lake and America’s Lake Superior
• Mountain ranges, including the Sierra Nevadas and the Canadian Rockies

What Are the Countries in North America?

The borders of each country in North America are outlined on this blank map to make it easy for students to identify the various countries. Need a quick reference? Here’s a list of the more than 20 countries of North America — including the island nations of the Caribbean – in alphabetical order:

1. Antigua and Barbuda
2. The Bahamas
3. Barbados
4. Belize
5. Bermuda (British Overseas Territory)
6. Canada
7. Costa Rica
8. Cuba
9. Dominica
10. Dominican Republic
11. El Salvador
12. Grenada
13. Guatemala
14. Haiti
15. Honduras
16. Jamaica
17. Mexico
18. Nicaragua
19. Panama
20. St. Kitts and Nevis
21. St. Lucia
22. St. Vincent and the Grenadines
23. Trinidad and Tobago
24. United States

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