South Asia Map
Free printable maps of South Asia: a labeled map of its 8 countries, a blank outline map, and a physical map in labeled and blank versions.
South Asia is the Indian subcontinent and its neighbors. Afghanistan is included here, as it is in most school lists, though some sources place it in Central Asia.
Choose your version
Four maps of South Asia.
All free PDFs sized for US Letter paper.
Labeled
Every country named. Small countries are numbered with a key.
downloadLabeled PDF
Blank
Country outlines only, with a name line, for quizzes and coloring.
downloadBlank PDF
Physical
Shaded relief with mountains, deserts, rivers and peaks named.
downloadPhysical PDF
Physical, blank
The same terrain with no names, for labeling practice.
downloadBlank physical PDFThe geography of South Asia
South Asia is walled off from the rest of Asia by the highest mountains on Earth: the Himalayas, the Karakoram and the Hindu Kush. Rivers from these mountains have built the broad Indo-Gangetic Plain across Pakistan, northern India and Bangladesh, where the Ganges and Brahmaputra meet in the world’s largest delta. The Thar Desert lies on the border of India and Pakistan. Southern India is the Deccan Plateau, with the Western and Eastern Ghats along its edges. Sri Lanka and the Maldives are island countries in the Indian Ocean.
Countries on this map
- Afghanistan
- Bangladesh
- Bhutan
- India
- Maldives
- Nepal
- Pakistan
- Sri Lanka
Major rivers
- Ganges
- Indus
- Brahmaputra
- Godavari
- Krishna
- Helmand
Find it on the map
- The Himalayas across the north
- The Indus River running the length of Pakistan
- Sri Lanka off the southern tip of India
Built from real data, not stock images.
Country borders, coastlines, rivers and feature names come from Natural Earth. The terrain on the physical maps is drawn from a global elevation model built from NASA SRTM and other public surveys.
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