MapPalette
MapPalette
MapPalette is a free online map maker. Click countries, states or provinces to color them, build a legend, and download your map as a high-resolution PNG or SVG — no account needed.
It started with a map of India. Almost every free map maker draws India's northern boundary the way one particular convention prefers, and there was no simple way to produce a shareable, correctly bounded India state map for a school project or a slide deck. Building that one map turned into building the tool around it: the world, every continent, and the internal divisions of 250+ countries, all with the same click-to-color interaction.
The other reason is cost. The established map makers either watermark the export, gate SVG behind a subscription, or ask you to make an account before you can download the thing you just drew. MapPalette does none of those. Every map is free to download at full resolution, with no watermark, and free to use commercially.
Everything runs in your browser. The boundary data is downloaded once as static files and rendered locally with SVG; the map you draw is never uploaded, never stored on a server, and never seen by us. Your work in progress is kept in your own browser's local storage so a reload does not lose it, and a share link encodes the map into the URL itself rather than into a database.
The practical consequence: there is no account, no export queue, and nothing to delete if you change your mind. Clearing your browser data clears your maps.
Boundaries come from Natural Earth, a public-domain dataset built for cartography rather than for surveying. Its outlines are deliberately generalized so they draw quickly and legibly at web sizes, which means coastlines are smoothed and very small features are simplified or dropped. Any area figure quoted on a country page is measured from those outlines — it will land within a few percent of the official number, not on it, which is why those pages say "mapped area" rather than "area".
Some borders are disputed, and no single rendering of them is neutral. Where the source data and common usage disagree, this site's choices — including the corrected boundaries on the India map — are documented on the data sources page, along with the licenses for everything the site is built from.
MapPalette is built and maintained by one independent developer, not a company or a team. It is funded by advertising, which pays for the map tile quota and the hosting; nothing on the site is a paid placement, and no advertiser has any say over the maps or the data behind them.
Found a wrong boundary, a broken country, or a feature you need? The contact page reaches the person who wrote the code — corrections and feature requests genuinely shape what gets built next.
Full detail — dataset versions, what a "first-level division" means here, disputed territories, imagery attribution and how to credit a map you export — is on the data sources and attribution page. In short: