Blank Map of Northern Ireland

The outline of Northern Ireland with two loughs and three towns, blank, numbered or named.

Blank Map of Northern Ireland

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Write the name of each numbered place.Answer key

  1. Northern Ireland
  2. Belfast
  3. Lough Neagh
  4. Derry/Londonderry
  5. Omagh
  6. Upper Lough Erne

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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All 6 places on the diagram

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  1. Northern Ireland The whole shape in the middle of the map.
  2. Belfast The capital, the dot on the east coast.
  3. Lough Neagh The large lake east of the middle.
  4. Derry/Londonderry The dot in the northwest, also called Derry or Londonderry.
  5. Omagh The dot in Northern Ireland's west.
  6. Upper Lough Erne The small lake in the southwest, in County Fermanagh.

How this list was compiled: Items made on 2026-10-01; ids, points and accepted spellings are Natural Earth's, with the label Derry/Londonderry set by the spec (the source prints Londonderry/Derry; either name alone is accepted). The six items are Northern Ireland, the two loughs the lakes layer holds inside the outline, and three of the four towns the places layer holds there (Lisburn, 60 units from Belfast on this drawing, is not drawn: the two names would not fit side by side on the Named sheet). No county is an item: the six counties (Antrim, Armagh, Down, Fermanagh, Londonderry, Tyrone) are in neither boundary source, and the source's 26 districts of 1973 to 2015 are not today's 11 and are not drawn. Names read on 2026-10-01: the six counties and the 11 local government districts of April 2015 at the Office for National Statistics (https://www.ons.gov.uk/methodology/geography/ukgeographies/administrativegeography/northernireland) and at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counties_of_Northern_Ireland; Belfast, Derry and Omagh in the council names at https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/contacts/local-councils-in-northern-ireland (Belfast City Council; Derry City and Strabane; Fermanagh and Omagh) and Belfast as the capital at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Ireland; Lough Neagh and Upper Lough Erne (County Fermanagh) at the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (https://www.daera-ni.gov.uk/protected-areas/lough-neagh-and-lough-beg-spa, https://www.daera-ni.gov.uk/protected-areas/upper-lough-erne-spa) and at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lough_Neagh and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lough_Erne. 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_0_map_units (scale 1:10,000,000), https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvkelso/natural-earth-vector/v5.1.2/geojson/ne_10m_admin_0_map_units.geojson, downloaded 2026-09-19; from Natural Earth 5.1.2, ne_10m_lakes (scale 1:10,000,000), https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvkelso/natural-earth-vector/v5.1.2/geojson/ne_10m_lakes.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 centred on 54.5°N 6.6°W. 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 Northern Ireland shows the outline with Lough Neagh, Upper Lough Erne and dots for Belfast, Derry/Londonderry and Omagh. It draws no county lines.

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Blank, numbered or named

The sheet opens blank. Choose Numbered to put a number on Northern Ireland, the two loughs and the three towns, 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

Lough Neagh is the large lake east of the middle, and Upper Lough Erne the small one in the southwest. Belfast is the dot on the east coast, Derry/Londonderry the one in the northwest and Omagh the one in the west. The land drawn lightly to the south and west is the Republic of Ireland, and the corner at the top right is Scotland.

  • The second city has two names in use. The map prints Derry/Londonderry, and the quiz takes either name.

Questions and answers

Does this map show the six counties of Northern Ireland?

No. The six counties are Antrim, Armagh, Down, Fermanagh, Londonderry and Tyrone, but the map source has no lines for them. The inside of the outline is left empty apart from the loughs and towns.

What is the capital of Northern Ireland?

Belfast. On this map it is the dot on the east coast, where a long inlet of the sea reaches into the land.

What is the large lake on the map of Northern Ireland?

Lough Neagh, east of the middle of the map. The smaller lake in the southwest is Upper Lough Erne, in County Fermanagh. Lower Lough Erne, the larger lake north of it, is not in the map source and is not drawn.

Which country borders Northern Ireland?

The Republic of Ireland, to the south and west. Northern Ireland is the United Kingdom's part of the island of Ireland, in the northeast. On this map the Republic is drawn lightly, without a number.

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