Blank Map of the Four Corners Region

Utah, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico alone on one sheet, around the point where all four meet.

Blank Map of the Four Corners Region

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Write the name of each numbered state.Answer key

  1. Arizona
  2. Colorado
  3. New Mexico
  4. Utah

Drawn for this site from U.S. Census Bureau 2023. Licence: public domain.

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

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All 4 states on the diagram

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  1. Arizona Mountain division. The capital is Phoenix. It is the most populous state capital in the country. Admitted as the 48th state on February 14, 1912, last of the 48 connected states. The Colorado River marks its border with California and much
  2. Colorado Mountain division. The capital is Denver, also its largest city. Admitted as the 38th state on August 1, 1876, four weeks after the nation's 100th birthday, hence the nickname Centennial State. All of it lies above 1,000 meters.
  3. New Mexico Mountain division. The capital is Santa Fe, founded in 1610. It is the oldest state capital, and the highest, at about 7,000 feet. Admitted as the 47th state on January 6, 1912. The Rio Grande runs north to south through the middle of the s
  4. Utah Mountain division. The capital is Salt Lake City, also its largest city. Admitted as the 45th state on January 4, 1896. The Great Salt Lake, in its north, is the Western Hemisphere's largest saltwater lake.

How this list was compiled: State list and the two divisions: U.S. Census Bureau, Census Regions and Divisions of the United States, https://www2.census.gov/geo/pdfs/maps-data/maps/reference/us_regdiv.pdf, checked 2026-09-19 (Region 4 West: Division 8 Mountain, eight states; Division 9 Pacific, five states). Order and dates of admission: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_date_of_admission_to_the_Union, checked 2026-09-19. Capitals: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_capitals_in_the_United_States, checked 2026-09-19. Largest cities, borders, rivers, area and population ranks in the hints and detail lines: the Wikipedia articles on each of the thirteen states, plus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_River and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevada (the Arizona borders: the river is the California line and much, not all, of the Nevada line), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hells_Canyon, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitterroot_Range (the Idaho and Montana line) and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Salt_Lake, checked 2026-09-19. Other lists of the West and the Southwest: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_United_States, checked 2026-09-19. Scale of the two insets: the notes of the drawing. Hints and detail lines written for this site. Licence: own work

The drawing: Drawn for this site from U.S. Census Bureau 2023 cartographic boundary file cb_2023_us_state_5m (scale 1:5,000,000), https://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/GENZ2023/shp/cb_2023_us_state_5m.zip, downloaded 2026-09-19. Surrounding land from Natural Earth 5.1.2, ne_10m_admin_0_countries_lakes (scale 1:10,000,000), https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvkelso/natural-earth-vector/v5.1.2/geojson/ne_10m_admin_0_countries_lakes.geojson, downloaded 2026-09-19. Albers equal-area conic projection, central meridian 113°W, standard parallels 34.3°N and 46.1°N. Alaska; Hawaii moved into insets. Outlines simplified; small islands are left out. Licence: public domain (work of the United States government, 17 U.S.C. 105): https://www2.census.gov/geo/pdfs/maps-data/data/tiger/tgrshp2023/TGRSHP2023_TechDoc_Ch1.pdf; public domain (Natural Earth terms of use: https://www.naturalearthdata.com/about/terms-of-use/)

How it works

This blank map of the Four Corners region draws the four states that meet at one point and writes nothing on them. Their neighbors are drawn around them as plain land, and Mexico runs along the bottom of the sheet.

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Four states, like four panes of a window

Utah is the upper left pane, with a notch cut from its top right where Wyoming fits in. Colorado, upper right, is a block with ruled edges. Arizona is the lower left, with Mexico along its slanting bottom edge. New Mexico is the lower right, with a small tab at its bottom left.

The point where the borders cross

The crossing near the middle of the sheet is Utah's lower right corner, Colorado's lower left, Arizona's upper right and New Mexico's upper left. A monument stands on that point, and the Navajo Nation maintains it.

  • Have students put a dot on the meeting point first, then write each state's name in its pane.

Questions and answers

Which four states meet at the Four Corners?

Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah. Nowhere else in the United States do four states meet at one point.

What is the Four Corners region?

The land around the meeting point: the southwest corner of Colorado, the southeast of Utah, the northeast of Arizona and the northwest of New Mexico. This sheet draws all four states whole, so the region is the middle of it.

How is this different from a blank map of the Southwest?

The Southwest sheet on this site follows the common school list: Arizona, New Mexico, Texas and Oklahoma. This one leaves out Texas and Oklahoma and adds Utah and Colorado, so the four states that share the point fill the paper.

What are the capitals of the Four Corners states?

Phoenix in Arizona, Denver in Colorado, Santa Fe in New Mexico and Salt Lake City in Utah. Santa Fe is the oldest state capital in the country and the highest.

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