Ancient Greece Map
A free printable map of ancient Greece drawn on real terrain, with the main city-states, regions and seas of the Greek world around 500 BC. It comes labeled and blank.
Choose your version
Labeled or blank.
Both are free PDFs sized for US Letter paper.
Labeled
Cities, regions, rivers and seas named.
downloadLabeled PDF
Blank
The same terrain and markers with no names, for labeling practice.
downloadBlank PDFThe geography of ancient Greece
Ancient Greece was never one country. Mountains cover most of the land and cut it into small valleys and plains, so the Greeks lived in separate city-states, each with its own government. The sea tied them together. No part of Greece is far from the coast, and the Greeks became sailors and traders who founded cities all around the Aegean, including Ionia on the coast of Asia Minor. Athens and Sparta were the most powerful city-states. The Peloponnese is the large southern peninsula, and Crete, to the south, was home to the earlier Minoan civilization.
On the map
- Athens: the leading city of Attica
- Sparta: the military power of the Peloponnese
- Delphi: the oracle of Apollo
- Olympia: home of the Olympic Games
- Marathon and Thermopylae: battles of the Persian Wars
- Troy: the city of the Trojan War
- Knossos: the Minoan palace on Crete
Find it on the map
- The Peloponnese, almost an island
- The many islands of the Aegean Sea
- Mt. Olympus, home of the gods in Greek myth
Coastlines and rivers are shown as they are today.