Algeria • Angola • Benin • Botswana • Burkina Faso • Burundi • Cameroon • Cape Verde • Chad • Comoros • Côte d'Ivoire • Democratic Republic of the Congo • Repbulic of the Congo • Djibouti • Egypt • Equatorial Guinea • Eritrea • Ethiopia • Gabon • Gambia • Ghana • Guinea-Bissau • Guinea • Kenya • Lesotho • Liberia • Libya • Madagascar • Malawi • Mali • Mauritania • Mauritius • Morocco • Mozambique • Namibia • Niger • Nigeria • Rwanda • (Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic) • Senegal • Seychelles • Sierre Leone • Somalia • South Africa • South Sudan • Sudan • Swaziland • São Tomé and Príncipe • Tanzania • Togo • Tunisia • Uganda • Yemen • Zambia • Zimbabwe

(European Union) • (Abkhazia) • Albania • Andorra • Armenia • Austria • Azerbaijan • Belarus • Belgium • Bosnia and Herzegovina • Bulgaria • Czech Republic • Croatia • Cyprus • Denmark • Estonia • Finland • France • Georgia • Germany • Greece • (Guernsey) • Hungary • Iceland • Ireland • Italy • (Jersey) • Kazakhstan • (Kosovo) • Latvia • Liechtenstein • Lithuania • Luxembourg • Macedonia • Malta • (Isle of Man) • Moldova • Monaco • Montenegro • Netherlands • (Northern Cyprus) • Norway • Poland • Portugal • Romania • Russia • San Marino • Serbia • Slovakia • Slovenia • (South Ossetia) • Spain • Sweden • Switzerland • Turkey • Ukraine • United Kingdom • Vatican City

Australia • Brunei • (Cook Islands) • East Timor • Fiji • Indonesia • Kiribati • Marshall Islands • Micronesia • Nauru • New Zealand • (Niue) • Palau • Papua New Guinea • Samoa • Solomon Islands • Tonga • Tuvalu • Vanuatu

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PRINCIPLES

• Color template

• Subdivision of a country

• Country within a international organization

• Country w/o context

• Country w/o context

Design Guidelines are based on → location map design of german map shop (German). It's favorable to derive new locator maps from existing location maps. Please keep both size and ratio in this case. Thus the new locator maps may still be applied as location map (→Guide). Marker color is supposed to be darkred. Waterbodies may be transparent, to show other objects better. Please be aware that this guide is only a recommendation. It's not an inevitable law!

HIGHLIGHT SMALL AREAS

• Marker

• Zoom

• Zoom

• Merged markers

• “Glowing” edges

• Zoom

“REMOTE AREAS”

• small maps apply different scales

• small map applies same scale as main map

SPECIAL OBJECTS

• Glaciers

• Towns

DISPUTED AREAS

• Rest of Serbia: foreign or the same country?

• Kosovo: part of Serbia?

• Wether South Ossetia or Abkhazia form a part of Georgia is disputed. The marked georgian administrative region however is partly under georgian control (solid red) while other parts are part break-away „country“ South Ossetia (hatched)

• India claims some northern areas (hatched) while other areas are controlled by India but challenged by other countries. India claims all of Jammu and Kashmir (red areas), while it controls only the southern part of it (cf. broad red stripes vs. narrow red stripes)

• Western Sahara: part of Marocco?

• Like above. However, the map differentiates wether the disputed area is controlled by Marocco or not

• Locator map of Taiwan in China. Map hatches all areas that are claimed but not controlled by China. Hence, highlighted Taiwan is also hatched grey/red.

Dashed borders or hatched areas indicate disputed areas or not fully integral areas. Politcal situations differ so do maps. There can't be strict rules with regard to disputed areas. Maps above are examples only.

BACKGROUNDS

• Relief

• Relief (like before but outlines highlighted)

• Satellite

• Land Cover

• Relief

MINIMAPS

• Mini map with box

• Depicted continent dark grey

• Box on a world map

Mini maps show where the depicted area actually is situated. Check out →Modèle:Carte en coin (french) of how to insert a mini map in virtually every map