Czech RepublicCapital: Prague. Landlocked. In the European Union since 2004. Czechoslovakia split into this country and Slovakia at the end of 1992. Joined the United Nations in 1993.
HungaryCapital: Budapest. Landlocked, with seven neighbors. They are Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania, Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia and Austria. In the European Union since 2004. Joined the United Nations in 1955.
PolandCapital: Warsaw. It touches seven countries. It runs from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Carpathian Mountains in the south. In the European Union since 2004. Joined the United Nations in 1945.
SlovakiaCapital: Bratislava. Landlocked. In the European Union since 2004. Czechoslovakia split into this country and the Czech Republic at the end of 1992. Joined the United Nations in 1993.
Southern Europe 1
SloveniaCapital: Ljubljana. Independent since 1991. One of the states that came out of the breakup of Yugoslavia. In the European Union since 2004. Joined the United Nations in 1992.
Western Europe 4
AustriaCapital: Vienna. Landlocked. In the European Union since 1995. Joined the United Nations in 1955.
GermanyCapital: Berlin. It touches nine countries. The North Sea and the Baltic Sea are to the north and the Alps to the south. One of the six founders, in 1957, of what is now the European Union. Joined the United Nations in 1973.
LiechtensteinCapital: Vaduz. Doubly landlocked: every country it touches is landlocked too. Outside the European Union. Joined the United Nations in 1990.
SwitzerlandCapital: Bern. Landlocked. Outside the European Union. Joined the United Nations in 2002.
How this list was compiled: All 48 are member states of the United Nations: https://www.un.org/en/about-us/member-states (membership and the years of joining), checked 2026-09-19. The regions follow the United Nations geoscheme, https://unstats.un.org/unsd/methodology/m49/, checked 2026-09-19: it files 43 of the 48 under Europe, and Armenia, Azerbaijan, Cyprus, Georgia and Turkey under Western Asia. The list of countries, the capitals, and the notes on the countries with land in both Europe and Asia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_and_dependent_territories_in_Europe, checked 2026-09-19. The 27 members of the European Union and their years of joining, and the date the United Kingdom left: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Member_state_of_the_European_Union, checked 2026-09-19. Landlocked countries, the doubly landlocked one and the country surrounded by Italy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landlocked_country, checked 2026-09-19. The 15 post-Soviet states: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-Soviet_states; the states that came out of Yugoslavia and their years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakup_of_Yugoslavia; the end of Czechoslovakia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissolution_of_Czechoslovakia; all checked 2026-09-19. Vatican City, Kosovo, Northern Cyprus and the island territories (Åland, the Faroe Islands, Guernsey, Jersey, the Isle of Man) are drawn and not asked, because none is a member state of the United Nations. Positions and sizes in the hints were read off the drawing. Hints and detail lines written for this site. Neighbors and their number: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_territories_by_number_of_land_borders, checked 2026-09-19. Seas, mountains, islands and directions in the detail lines: the opening paragraphs of the Wikipedia articles on Belarus, Bulgaria, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania and Spain, checked 2026-09-19. Reykjavík as the northernmost capital of a sovereign state: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reykjav%C3%ADk; East Thrace as 3 percent of Turkey: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Thrace; Kyiv on both banks of the Dnieper: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyiv; the bridge between Sweden and Denmark: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%98resund_Bridge; all checked 2026-09-19. No detail line lists the neighbors of a country where one of them is across a line the points file flags. Licence: own work
The drawing: Drawn for this site from Natural Earth 5.1.2, ne_50m_admin_0_countries_lakes (scale 1:50,000,000), https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvkelso/natural-earth-vector/v5.1.2/geojson/ne_50m_admin_0_countries_lakes.geojson, downloaded 2026-09-19. Lambert azimuthal equal-area projection centred on 53°N 15°E. Outlines simplified; small islands are left out. 6 places are too small to draw at this scale and shown as a dot. Licence: public domain (Natural Earth terms of use: https://www.naturalearthdata.com/about/terms-of-use/)
How it works
This blank map of Central Europe numbers nine countries: Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein and Slovenia. Their neighbors are drawn without numbers.
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Blank, numbered or named
The sheet opens blank. Choose Numbered to put a number on each of the nine countries, or Named for their names, then press Print this map. Print the answer key gives the names on a sheet of its own.
Where Central Europe ends
Central Europe has no agreed border, and lists differ. This sheet numbers nine countries that lists of the region most often name. Liechtenstein, between Switzerland and Austria, is too small to write inside, so it has a ring joined by a line.
Croatia and Lithuania are on some lists. Both are drawn without numbers, south of Slovenia and northeast of Poland, so students can write them in.
Questions and answers
Which countries are in Central Europe?
There is no single list. This map numbers nine: Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein and Slovenia. Croatia and Lithuania are often added, so your textbook may differ.
Does the United Nations list a Central Europe?
No. It files Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Liechtenstein under Western Europe, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary under Eastern Europe, and Slovenia under Southern Europe.
Which is the largest country numbered?
Germany, with Poland a close second. Liechtenstein is by far the smallest, a ring between Switzerland and Austria.