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Blank Map of New South Wales

The outline of New South Wales with four rivers, five cities and towns and the Australian Capital Territory.

Blank Map of New South Wales

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Write the name of each numbered place.Answer key

  1. New South Wales
  2. Sydney
  3. Australian Capital Territory
  4. Murray River
  5. Darling River
  6. Lachlan River
  7. Macquarie River
  8. Newcastle
  9. Dubbo
  10. Wagga Wagga
  11. Broken Hill

Drawn for this site from Natural Earth 5.1.2. Licence: public domain.

Each place is a button. Use the arrow keys to move between them and Enter to choose. Names are read out in Study, and once a place is answered.

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  1. New South Wales The whole state in the middle of the map.
  2. Sydney The capital, on the east coast.
  3. Australian Capital Territory The small territory enclosed in the southeast.
  4. Murray River Runs along the border with Victoria.
  5. Darling River Crosses the west and joins the Murray at Wentworth.
  6. Lachlan River Runs west across the middle of the state.
  7. Macquarie River Rises near Bathurst and runs northwest past Dubbo.
  8. Newcastle The coastal dot north of Sydney.
  9. Dubbo The inland dot on the Macquarie River.
  10. Wagga Wagga The inland dot in the south.
  11. Broken Hill The dot in the far west, near South Australia.

How this list was compiled: Items made on 2026-10-01; ids and points are Natural Earth's. Every name on the sheet was read on 2026-10-01 in two places besides the drawing. Sydney as the capital, on the east coast: https://www.nsw.gov.au/about-nsw/key-facts-about-nsw. The Lachlan River, the Macquarie River (rising near Bathurst, gauged at Dubbo), the lower Darling River and its junction with the River Murray at Wentworth, Broken Hill and Wagga Wagga: the catchment pages of the Murray-Darling Basin Authority, https://www.mdba.gov.au/basin/catchments. Newcastle: https://www.visitnsw.com/destinations/north-coast/newcastle-area, the state's tourism site. The points of Sydney and Newcastle stand 2 units off the middle of their dots, away from each other, so that both names fit on the Named sheet. Queensland, Victoria and South Australia as the three neighbors (drawn as plain land and not numbered), the Australian Capital Territory as an enclave, Sydney as the capital and Lord Howe Island as part of the state: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_South_Wales. Five of the 11 numbered places are dots. The Murrumbidgee River has no line of its own in the map source. The source's Lachlan line runs past the Lachlan's end near Oxley (the Great Cumbung Swamp on the basin authority's Lachlan page; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lachlan_River) and on down the lower Murrumbidgee to the Murray, and it is drawn as the source has it. The ring of Dubbo was placed by hand below its dot. Lord Howe Island lies outside the frame. No disputed area lies in the frame of the drawing. 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; 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; from Natural Earth 5.1.2, ne_10m_populated_places_simple (scale 1:10,000,000), https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvkelso/natural-earth-vector/v5.1.2/geojson/ne_10m_populated_places_simple.geojson, downloaded 2026-09-19. Lambert azimuthal equal-area projection centered on 32.8°S 147.3°E. Outlines simplified; small islands are left out. Licence: public domain (Natural Earth terms of use: https://www.naturalearthdata.com/about/terms-of-use/)

How it works

This blank map of NSW shows the outline of New South Wales with four rivers and dots for Sydney and four more cities and towns. Queensland, Victoria and South Australia are plain land around it.

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Blank, numbered or named

The sheet opens blank. Choose Numbered to put a number on New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory, the rivers and the five dots, or Named for their names, then press Print this map. Print the answer key gives the names on a sheet of their own.

What the map draws

Queensland (north), Victoria (south) and South Australia (west) are plain land, without numbers. The Australian Capital Territory is the small area enclosed in the southeast. The Murrumbidgee, the river of Wagga Wagga, has no line of its own: the map source draws only its last stretch, as the end of the Lachlan's line down to the Murray.

  • Along the south, the Murray River and the border with Victoria run together as one line on the map.
  • The number of Dubbo stands below its dot on a short line, because the town lies on the Macquarie River.

Questions and answers

What is the capital of New South Wales?

Sydney, on the east coast. It is Australia’s most populous city too.

What borders New South Wales?

Queensland (north), Victoria (south) and South Australia (west), with the Coral Sea and the Tasman Sea to the east. The Australian Capital Territory is enclosed inside the state.

Which rivers are on the map?

Four. The Murray runs along the border with Victoria. The Darling crosses the west and joins the Murray at Wentworth. The Lachlan runs west across the middle, and the Macquarie rises near Bathurst and passes Dubbo.

Is Lord Howe Island on the map?

No. Lord Howe Island is part of New South Wales, but it lies far out in the Tasman Sea, beyond the edge of this sheet.

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