Blank Map of Pacific US States

Five states and nothing else: the coast from Washington to California, with Alaska and Hawaii in their boxes.

Blank Map of Pacific US States

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Write the name of each numbered state.Answer key

  1. Alaska
  2. California
  3. Hawaii
  4. Oregon
  5. Washington

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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  1. Alaska Pacific division. The capital is Juneau. No road connects it to the rest of the continent. Admitted as the 49th state on January 3, 1959. It is larger than Texas, California and Montana combined, and it touches no other state.
  2. California Pacific division. The capital is Sacramento. The largest city is Los Angeles. Admitted as the 31st state on September 9, 1850, two years after Mexico ceded the land. It has the most people of any state and is third in area.
  3. Hawaii Pacific division. The capital is Honolulu, on the island of Oahu. Admitted as the 50th state on August 21, 1959, the most recent. It is the only state made up entirely of islands, and the southernmost, about 2,000 miles from the mainland.
  4. Oregon Pacific division. The capital is Salem, and the largest city is Portland. Admitted as the 33rd state on February 14, 1859. The Columbia River marks much of its border with Washington. Crater Lake is the deepest lake in the country.
  5. Washington Pacific division. The capital is Olympia, and the largest city is Seattle. Admitted as the 42nd state on November 11, 1889, three days after Montana. It is the only state named after a president. Puget Sound is the inlet in its northwest.

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 Pacific states stops at five states and writes nothing on them. Nevada and its neighbors inland are drawn as plain land, and the coasts of Canada and Mexico run off the top and bottom of the sheet.

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A Pacific coast states blank map, with three states or five

Pacific Coast most often means the three states that touch each other: Washington, Oregon and California. Counted as a division of the West, the list grows to five with Alaska and Hawaii, and this sheet follows the longer list. A class that wants only the three leaves the two boxes unlabeled.

Two states in boxes, each at its own scale

Alaska touches no other state and Hawaii lies about 2,000 miles out in the ocean, so each sits in a dashed box. Alaska is drawn at about a quarter of the scale of the coast states: on paper it looks smaller than California, and it is the largest state in the country. Hawaii is drawn at nearly full scale.

  • Label down the coast first: Washington, Oregon, California. The Columbia River makes much of the wavy line between the first two.

Questions and answers

What are the 5 Pacific states?

Alaska, California, Hawaii, Oregon and Washington. They are the Pacific division of the Census Bureau's West region. The eight Mountain states are the region's other division.

What are the capitals of the Pacific states?

Juneau in Alaska, Sacramento in California, Honolulu in Hawaii, Salem in Oregon and Olympia in Washington. Only Honolulu is also its state's largest city.

Is all of Alaska and Hawaii on the map?

Nearly. The far end of the Aleutian chain, west of 170°W, and the small Northwestern Hawaiian Islands are left out so that each state fits its box. Small islands along every coast are left out too.

Is there a blank map of the Pacific states quiz?

Yes, on this page. Quiz yourself on this map asks for the five states one at a time on the same drawing, the two boxes included, and shows the right state after a miss.

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