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Blank Map of South Australia

South Australia's outline with its neighbors, four salt lakes, the Murray River and five towns, blank, numbered or named.

Blank Map of South Australia

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Write the name of each numbered place.Answer key

  1. South Australia
  2. Adelaide
  3. Western Australia
  4. Northern Territory
  5. Queensland
  6. New South Wales
  7. Victoria
  8. Great Australian Bight
  9. Kangaroo Island
  10. Lake Eyre
  11. Lake Torrens
  12. Lake Gairdner
  13. Lake Frome
  14. Murray River
  15. Flinders Ranges
  16. Whyalla
  17. Port Lincoln
  18. Ceduna
  19. Mount Gambier

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. South Australia The state in the middle of the map.
  2. Adelaide The capital, on the east shore of Gulf St Vincent.
  3. Western Australia The state to the west.
  4. Northern Territory The territory to the north.
  5. Queensland The state at the northeast corner.
  6. New South Wales The state to the east.
  7. Victoria The state at the southeast corner.
  8. Great Australian Bight The wide open bay along the south coast.
  9. Kangaroo Island The large island off the south coast.
  10. Lake Eyre The largest salt lake, in the north. Also named Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre.
  11. Lake Torrens The long salt lake north of Spencer Gulf.
  12. Lake Gairdner The salt lake west of Lake Torrens.
  13. Lake Frome The salt lake east of the Flinders Ranges.
  14. Murray River Comes in from the east and reaches the sea southeast of Adelaide.
  15. Flinders Ranges The ranges between Lake Torrens and Lake Frome.
  16. Whyalla On the west shore of Spencer Gulf.
  17. Port Lincoln The dot on the coast southwest of Whyalla.
  18. Ceduna The dot on the west coast.
  19. Mount Gambier In the far southeast, near Victoria.

How this list was compiled: Items made on 2026-10-01. The map source has no unit below the state, so the sheet numbers the state, its neighbors where it has them, and the land areas, waters and places listed here. Every name was read on 2026-10-01 in the Composite Gazetteer of Australia (https://placenames.fsdf.org.au/, the official names of the state and territory naming authorities, read through its search service), authority SA (Adelaide, Mount Gambier, Whyalla, Port Lincoln and Ceduna; Kangaroo Island; Flinders Ranges; Lake Eyre and Kati Thanda; Lake Torrens; Lake Gairdner; Lake Frome; River Murray; Great Australian Bight; Spencer Gulf; Gulf St Vincent), and in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Australia (the five neighbors and the sentence that the state borders every other mainland state, Adelaide as capital, the towns, Kangaroo Island, the Flinders Ranges, the four lakes, Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre, the Murray, the Bight, the two gulfs) with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceduna,_South_Australia. Geoscience Australia's landform and dimension tables (https://www.ga.gov.au/scientific-topics/national-location-information/landforms/islands, .../landforms/deserts, .../landforms/largest-waterbodies, .../landforms/longest-rivers, .../dimensions/area-of-australia-states-and-territories) list Kangaroo among the largest islands and Lake Eyre, Lake Torrens and Lake Gairdner as the largest salt lakes, and name the river River Murray in South Australia. The label Murray River is the one this site's other maps use for the same line; River Murray is accepted. The map source's water area named Gulf St Vincent also covers Spencer Gulf, so it is left off the drawing and neither gulf is numbered. The deserts and the Nullarbor Plain, which cross the state border, are not drawn. 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_geography_regions_polys (scale 1:10,000,000), https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvkelso/natural-earth-vector/v5.1.2/geojson/ne_10m_geography_regions_polys.geojson, downloaded 2026-09-19; from Natural Earth 5.1.2, ne_10m_geography_marine_polys (scale 1:10,000,000), https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvkelso/natural-earth-vector/v5.1.2/geojson/ne_10m_geography_marine_polys.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_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 31.9°S 135°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 South Australia shows the state, its five neighbors, Kangaroo Island, four salt lakes, the Murray River, the Flinders Ranges, the Great Australian Bight and dots for Adelaide and four more towns.

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Blank, numbered or named

The sheet opens blank. Choose Numbered to put a number on the state, its neighbors, the island, the lakes, the river, the ranges, the Bight 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

Western Australia is to the west, the Northern Territory and Queensland to the north, New South Wales and Victoria to the east. The Flinders Ranges have a faint edge: a rough area, not an exact limit. Faint lines over the water are where the map source ends the Bight. Spencer Gulf and Gulf St Vincent are water with no number: the map source has no shape for each.

Questions and answers

What is the capital of South Australia?

Adelaide. On this map it is the dot on the east shore of Gulf St Vincent, the smaller of the two gulfs.

Which states border South Australia?

Western Australia, the Northern Territory, Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria. South Australia shares a border with every other mainland state.

What is the big lake in South Australia?

Lake Eyre, a salt lake in the north. It is also named Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre. Lake Torrens, Lake Gairdner and Lake Frome are the other salt lakes on the map.

Does the Murray River run through South Australia?

Yes. It comes in from the east and reaches the sea southeast of Adelaide. In South Australia it is called the River Murray.

What island is off the coast of South Australia?

Kangaroo Island, south of the two gulfs. It is one of the largest islands of Australia.

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