Explore country shapes, sizes, borders, coastlines and the lines that cross the world.
The collection brings together data Hookito already uses: the capitals and facts behind the country pages, the outlines from the countries list, the paintings in Art, the album lists in Audio and the night side of the globe. The boundaries combine Eurostat GISCO and Natural Earth data. The world maps use a plain equirectangular projection, cropped at 84° north and 58° south.
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10 maps
Country size, coastlines, capitals and the borders between places.
Beijing, Kinshasa and Mexico City are the largest dots. At the other end, 25 capitals have fewer than 50,000 people. Each country page lists its largest cities.
Capital populations: GeoNames. Coordinates: Hookito country data. Administrative boundaries © EuroGeographics (Eurostat GISCO). Additional boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain).
45 countries have no coast at all. Liechtenstein and Uzbekistan are surrounded only by other landlocked countries, so the sea is at least two borders away; Canada has the longest coastline, about 202,080 km.
Coastlines and landlocked status: Hookito country data, largely based on Wikidata. Administrative boundaries © EuroGeographics (Eurostat GISCO). Additional boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain).
City lights follow coasts and rivers more than borders: the Nile shows as a thin line of light through the desert. The borders are the only thing on this map you can’t see from space.
Imagery: NASA Earth Observatory, Black Marble (public domain). Administrative boundaries © EuroGeographics (Eurostat GISCO). Additional boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain).
Africa and Europe have 16 each; Kazakhstan is the largest landlocked country. Liechtenstein and Uzbekistan border only other landlocked countries.
Landlocked status: Hookito country data, largely based on Wikidata. Administrative boundaries © EuroGeographics (Eurostat GISCO). Additional boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain).
Russia has the most land neighbours (14), then China (13); Brazil, DR Congo and Germany have 9 each. 50 countries, most of them islands, have none. A border counts where the country data lists it and the GISCO map shows the two touching.
Borders: Hookito country data, largely based on Wikidata. Administrative boundaries © EuroGeographics (Eurostat GISCO). Additional boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain).
Colour compares the area figures in Hookito’s country data. The shapes use an equirectangular projection, which enlarges places at high latitudes; use the colour rather than the apparent shape size to compare area.
Area: Hookito country-facts snapshot, largely based on Wikidata. Administrative boundaries © EuroGeographics (Eurostat GISCO). Additional boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain).
Brazil, DR Congo, Republic of the Congo, Colombia, Ecuador, Gabon, Indonesia, Kenya, Somalia, Uganda. The line is tested against land polygons, not territorial waters. Boundaries are simplified at world-map scale, so very small islands can be omitted. The tropical and polar-circle latitudes are approximate.
Latitude intersections: Hookito’s map polygons. Administrative boundaries © EuroGeographics (Eurostat GISCO). Additional boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain).
United Arab Emirates, Bangladesh, The Bahamas, China, Algeria, Egypt, Western Sahara, India, Libya, Mali, Myanmar, Mauritania, Mexico, Niger, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Taiwan. The line is tested against land polygons, not territorial waters. Boundaries are simplified at world-map scale, so very small islands can be omitted. The tropical and polar-circle latitudes are approximate.
Latitude intersections: Hookito’s map polygons. Administrative boundaries © EuroGeographics (Eurostat GISCO). Additional boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain).
Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Botswana, Chile, Madagascar, Mozambique, Namibia, Paraguay, South Africa. The line is tested against land polygons, not territorial waters. Boundaries are simplified at world-map scale, so very small islands can be omitted. The tropical and polar-circle latitudes are approximate.
Latitude intersections: Hookito’s map polygons. Administrative boundaries © EuroGeographics (Eurostat GISCO). Additional boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain).
Canada, Finland, Greenland, Norway, Russia, Sweden, USA. The line is tested against land polygons, not territorial waters. Boundaries are simplified at world-map scale, so very small islands can be omitted. The tropical and polar-circle latitudes are approximate.
Latitude intersections: Hookito’s map polygons. Administrative boundaries © EuroGeographics (Eurostat GISCO). Additional boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain).
6 maps
Every country and territory in our directory, grouped by continent. Learn the shapes or cover the labels and test yourself.
Some countries you’d know from the shape alone; others only once you read the name. Cover the labels and see how many you get.
Outlines: Hookito, from Eurostat GISCO 1:1 million polygons. Administrative boundaries © EuroGeographics. Additional boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain).
Some countries you’d know from the shape alone; others only once you read the name. Cover the labels and see how many you get.
Outlines: Hookito, from Eurostat GISCO 1:1 million polygons. Administrative boundaries © EuroGeographics. Additional boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain).
Some countries you’d know from the shape alone; others only once you read the name. Cover the labels and see how many you get.
Outlines: Hookito, from Eurostat GISCO 1:1 million polygons. Administrative boundaries © EuroGeographics. Additional boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain).
Some countries you’d know from the shape alone; others only once you read the name. Cover the labels and see how many you get.
Outlines: Hookito, from Eurostat GISCO 1:1 million polygons. Administrative boundaries © EuroGeographics. Additional boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain).
Some countries you’d know from the shape alone; others only once you read the name. Cover the labels and see how many you get.
Outlines: Hookito, from Eurostat GISCO 1:1 million polygons. Administrative boundaries © EuroGeographics. Additional boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain).
Some countries you’d know from the shape alone; others only once you read the name. Cover the labels and see how many you get.
Outlines: Hookito, from Eurostat GISCO 1:1 million polygons. Administrative boundaries © EuroGeographics. Additional boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain).
You’re welcome to share, print or adapt these maps. The renderings are licensed CC BY 4.0: credit them as “Map: Hookito, hookito.com”, with a link to this page where you can.
The underlying data keeps its own terms, so keep its credits too. Administrative boundaries © EuroGeographics (Eurostat GISCO), which also applies to most country outlines. Additional boundaries are from Natural Earth (public domain). Each map lists its other sources: Wikidata and GeoNames for country facts, Wikimedia Commons for the paintings, NASA Earth Observatory for the night imagery. The maps are offered as finished images only; the boundary data itself isn’t available for download here.
