Blank Map of Laos

How this list was compiled: Items made on 2026-10-01; ids and points are the points file's, labels are Natural Earth's English names where the points file does not say otherwise, and the accepted spellings are the ones the two name sources print. THE DRAWING IS DATED: it has 16 provinces and Vientiane Prefecture, and Laos has 17 provinces and the prefecture since Xaisomboun was made a province on 13 December 2013. The map source does not draw Xaisomboun: all of it lies inside the shape the source calls Vientiane Province. The page numbers and asks the 15 provinces and the prefecture that are drawn as they are today (Xiangkhouang among them); the Vientiane Province shape with the land of Xaisomboun is in this file for the drawing and is never asked. Which shapes are today's was checked on 2026-10-01 by laying the drawing's source shapes over two boundary sets of today's 18 units, both fetched through geoBoundaries (https://www.geoboundaries.org): the National Geographic Department of Laos set of 2015 (geoBoundaries' humanitarian set), and the OpenStreetMap set of 2017. The 15 provinces and the prefecture match today's units (93 to 99 percent of each shape); 96 to 98 percent of Xaisomboun is inside the Vientiane Province shape, with the seats of all five of its districts. Name sources, read on 2026-10-01: ISO 3166-2:LA as Wikipedia prints it (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-2:LA, one prefecture and 17 provinces, with the local spellings accepted here); https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provinces_of_Laos (the same 18, under the English names used here) and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xaisomboun_province (13 December 2013, five districts); the CIA World Factbook's list of administrative divisions, read from the factbook.json mirror (17 provinces and 1 prefecture, with Xaisomboun and Xiangkhouang); the table of provinces at https://www.citypopulation.de/en/laos/cities/, which lists Xaisomboun in its boundaries of 2014 from the Lao Statistics Bureau's census. The points of Bokeo, Luang Namtha, Oudomxay were moved inside their shapes, away from the middle the points file gives, so that the names on the Named sheet do not run into each other. Licence: public domain (Natural Earth terms of use: https://www.naturalearthdata.com/about/terms-of-use/)

The drawing: Drawn for this site from Natural Earth 5.1.2, ne_10m_admin_1_states_provinces (scale 1:10,000,000), https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvkelso/natural-earth-vector/v5.1.2/geojson/ne_10m_admin_1_states_provinces.geojson, downloaded 2026-09-19. Surrounding land from Natural Earth 5.1.2, ne_10m_admin_0_countries (scale 1:10,000,000), https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvkelso/natural-earth-vector/v5.1.2/geojson/ne_10m_admin_0_countries.geojson, downloaded 2026-09-19. Layers that cannot be tapped from Natural Earth 5.1.2, ne_10m_rivers_lake_centerlines (scale 1:10,000,000), https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvkelso/natural-earth-vector/v5.1.2/geojson/ne_10m_rivers_lake_centerlines.geojson, downloaded 2026-09-19. Lambert azimuthal equal-area projection centred on 18.3°N 103.9°E. Outlines simplified; small islands are left out. Licence: public domain (Natural Earth terms of use: https://www.naturalearthdata.com/about/terms-of-use/)