Southwest Region Map Blank

Arizona, New Mexico, Texas and Oklahoma on one sheet.

Southwest Region Map Blank

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Write the name of each numbered state.Answer key

  1. Arizona
  2. New Mexico
  3. Oklahoma
  4. Texas

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. Arizona The capital is Phoenix. Arizona became the 48th state on February 14, 1912.
  2. New Mexico The capital is Santa Fe. It became the 47th state: January 6, 1912.
  3. Oklahoma The capital is Oklahoma City. Oklahoma became the 46th state on November 16, 1907.
  4. Texas The capital is Austin. Texas became the 28th state on December 29, 1845.

How this list was compiled: The Southwest is not a Census Bureau region and has no official list. The four-state list (Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas) is the Southwest of National Geographic Education's United States Regions, https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/united-states-regions/, read 2026-10-01, and of https://www.ducksters.com/geography/us_states/us_geographical_regions.php, read 2026-10-01. The wider list adds California, Colorado, Nevada and Utah, the states https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwestern_United_States names as counted in or out depending on the boundaries used (Arizona and New Mexico are its core), read 2026-10-01. Census placing (Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico and Utah in the Mountain division and California in the Pacific division of the West; Oklahoma and Texas in the West South Central division of the South): https://www2.census.gov/geo/pdfs/maps-data/maps/reference/us_regdiv.pdf, read 2026-10-01. Order and dates of admission: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_date_of_admission_to_the_Union, read 2026-10-01. Capitals: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_capitals_in_the_United_States, read 2026-10-01. Rivers in the hints: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_River (the Arizona border with Nevada and California) and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_Grande (the boundary between Mexico and the United States from El Paso to the Gulf of Mexico), read 2026-10-01. Hints describe the drawing and were 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 106.2°W, standard parallels 28.5°N and 39.3°N. 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 Southwest region map, blank, prints the four states most school lists call the Southwest: Arizona, New Mexico, Texas and Oklahoma. Their neighbors are drawn around them with nothing written.

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Blank, numbered or named

The sheet opens blank. Numbered puts 1 on Arizona, 2 on New Mexico, 3 on Oklahoma and 4 on Texas, with a line for each name; Named writes the names in. Print this map prints the sheet on screen.

A Southwest region blank map of four states

The Southwest is not a Census Bureau region, so the page names its list: the four states of National Geographic's school maps. California, Nevada, Utah and Colorado, which wider lists add, are drawn as plain land for a class that wants to write them in.

  • Have students mark Four Corners, the point where Arizona, New Mexico, Utah and Colorado meet.

Questions and answers

Which states are in the Southwest region?

On the common school list, four: Arizona, New Mexico, Texas and Oklahoma. Wider lists add California, Nevada, Utah and Colorado. No list is official, because the Census Bureau has no Southwest region.

Is Texas in the South or the Southwest?

Both, depending on the list. The Census Bureau puts Texas and Oklahoma in the South. School maps of five regions put them in the Southwest with Arizona and New Mexico.

Why is Mexico on the map?

Arizona, New Mexico and Texas all border Mexico, so its land is drawn below them as plain land with no number.

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