Natural Earth is a public domain map dataset available at 1:10m, 1:50m, and 1:110 million scales. Featuring tightly integrated vector and raster data, with Natural Earth you can make a variety …

The Natural Earth quick start kit (219 mb) provides a small sample of Natural Earth themes styled in in a QGIS document. Download all vector themes as SHP (576 mb), SQLite (423 mb), or …

We developed Natural Earth as a convenient resource for making custom maps. Unlike other map data intended for scientific analysis or military mapping, Natural Earth is designed to meet the …

Natural Earth draws de facto boundaries according to our disputed boundaries policy. We also mark controversial boundaries as disputed, and show claim lines around disputed areas. Data …

The softly blended colors of Natural Earth II make it a suitable base for general-purpose mapping, including historical maps, because it shows the world much as it looked before the modern …

Grids at 1, 5, 10, 15, 20, and 30° intervals. Includes WGS84 bounding box.

Natural Earth shows de facto boundaries by default according to who controls the territory, versus de jure. Optional point-of-view (POV) variants are available for several dozen countries in the …

Natural Earth features 7 types of raster files at 1:10 million-scale to suit your bandwidth and content focus. Two versions of the 10 million-scale raster data are offered: high resolution files …

I’m proud to announce the immediate availability of Natural Earth version 4! After four months active development and more than 50 contributors Natural Earth v4 is now generally available …

Natural Earth features 9 types of raster files at 1:50 million-scale to suit your bandwidth and content focus. The raster files measure 10,800 x 5,400-pixels and register precisely with the …