AustriaCapital: Vienna. Landlocked. In the European Union since 1995. Joined the United Nations in 1955.
BelgiumCapital: Brussels. A founder of what is now the European Union. It was one of six, in 1957. Joined the United Nations in 1945.
FranceCapital: Paris. It touches eight countries. They run from Belgium round to Spain, with Monaco and Andorra among them. One of the six founders, in 1957, of what is now the European Union. Joined the United Nations in 1945.
GermanyCapital: Berlin. It touches nine countries. The North Sea and the Baltic Sea are to the north and the Alps to the south. One of the six founders, in 1957, of what is now the European Union. Joined the United Nations in 1973.
LuxembourgCapital: Luxembourg City. Landlocked. One of the six founders, in 1957, of what is now the European Union. Joined the United Nations in 1945.
NetherlandsCapital: Amsterdam. The seat of government is The Hague. One of the six founders, in 1957, of what is now the European Union. Joined the United Nations in 1945.
Other 3
LiechtensteinCapital: Vaduz. Doubly landlocked: every country it touches is landlocked too. Outside the European Union. Joined the United Nations in 1990.
MonacoCapital: Monaco. A city-state: the city is the country. Outside the European Union. Joined the United Nations in 1993.
SwitzerlandCapital: Bern. Landlocked. Outside the European Union. Joined the United Nations in 2002.
How this list was compiled: All 48 are member states of the United Nations: https://www.un.org/en/about-us/member-states (membership and the years of joining), checked 2026-09-19. The regions follow the United Nations geoscheme, https://unstats.un.org/unsd/methodology/m49/, checked 2026-09-19: it files 43 of the 48 under Europe, and Armenia, Azerbaijan, Cyprus, Georgia and Turkey under Western Asia. The list of countries, the capitals, and the notes on the countries with land in both Europe and Asia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_and_dependent_territories_in_Europe, checked 2026-09-19. The 27 members of the European Union and their years of joining, and the date the United Kingdom left: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Member_state_of_the_European_Union, checked 2026-09-19. Landlocked countries, the doubly landlocked one and the country surrounded by Italy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landlocked_country, checked 2026-09-19. The 15 post-Soviet states: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-Soviet_states; the states that came out of Yugoslavia and their years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakup_of_Yugoslavia; the end of Czechoslovakia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissolution_of_Czechoslovakia; all checked 2026-09-19. Vatican City, Kosovo, Northern Cyprus and the island territories (Åland, the Faroe Islands, Guernsey, Jersey, the Isle of Man) are drawn and not asked, because none is a member state of the United Nations. Positions and sizes in the hints were read off the drawing. Hints and detail lines written for this site. Neighbors and their number: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_territories_by_number_of_land_borders, checked 2026-09-19. Seas, mountains, islands and directions in the detail lines: the opening paragraphs of the Wikipedia articles on Belarus, Bulgaria, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania and Spain, checked 2026-09-19. Reykjavík as the northernmost capital of a sovereign state: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reykjav%C3%ADk; East Thrace as 3 percent of Turkey: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Thrace; Kyiv on both banks of the Dnieper: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyiv; the bridge between Sweden and Denmark: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%98resund_Bridge; all checked 2026-09-19. No detail line lists the neighbors of a country where one of them is across a line the points file flags. Licence: own work
The drawing: Drawn for this site from Natural Earth 5.1.2, ne_50m_admin_0_countries_lakes (scale 1:50,000,000), https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvkelso/natural-earth-vector/v5.1.2/geojson/ne_50m_admin_0_countries_lakes.geojson, downloaded 2026-09-19. Lambert azimuthal equal-area projection centred on 53°N 15°E. Outlines simplified; small islands are left out. 6 places are too small to draw at this scale and shown as a dot. Licence: public domain (Natural Earth terms of use: https://www.naturalearthdata.com/about/terms-of-use/)
How it works
This blank map of Western Europe numbers the nine countries the United Nations files there, from France and the Netherlands to Austria. The rest of Europe is drawn without numbers.
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Blank, numbered or named
The sheet opens blank. Choose Numbered to put a number on each of the nine countries, or Named for their names, then press Print this map. Print the answer key gives the names on a sheet of its own.
Three states too small to write on
Liechtenstein, Luxembourg and Monaco each have a ring joined by a line. Luxembourg sits where Belgium, France and Germany meet, Liechtenstein between Switzerland and Austria, and Monaco on the Mediterranean coast of France, close to Italy.
Class lists of Western Europe often add Britain, Ireland, Spain, Portugal and Italy. For those, print the blank map of Europe.
Questions and answers
Which countries are in Western Europe?
Nine in the United Nations list: Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Monaco, the Netherlands and Switzerland. All nine are numbered on this map.
Why are the United Kingdom, Spain and Italy not numbered?
The United Nations list files the United Kingdom and Ireland under Northern Europe, and Spain, Portugal and Italy under Southern Europe. They are drawn here without numbers; the blank map of Europe numbers every country.
Which is the largest country on the sheet?
France, with coasts on both the Atlantic and the Mediterranean. Germany, to its east, is the second largest, and Austria the third.