• 30 features
  • Checked October 2026

Blank Canada Physical Map

Canada's mountains, lakes, rivers and bays on one sheet, with no province lines.

Blank Canada Physical Map

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Write the name of each numbered feature.Answer key

  1. Rocky Mountains
  2. Hudson Bay
  3. Great Plains
  4. Arctic Ocean
  5. Lake Superior
  6. Lake Huron
  7. Lake Erie
  8. Lake Ontario
  9. Canadian Shield
  10. Labrador Peninsula
  11. Columbia River
  12. Yukon River
  13. Mackenzie River
  14. St. Lawrence River
  15. Great Bear Lake
  16. Great Slave Lake
  17. Lake Winnipeg
  18. Baffin Island
  19. Newfoundland
  20. Vancouver Island
  21. Coast Mountains
  22. Mackenzie Mountains
  23. Lake Athabasca
  24. Labrador Sea
  25. Baffin Bay
  26. Davis Strait
  27. Hudson Strait
  28. James Bay
  29. Gulf of St. Lawrence
  30. Beaufort Sea

Drawn for this site from Natural Earth 5.1.2. Licence: public domain.

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

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The big features 9

  1. Hudson Bay A large saltwater body in northeastern Canada.
  2. Arctic Ocean The smallest, shallowest and coldest of the world's five oceans.
  3. Canadian Shield A vast area of ancient exposed rock in eastern and central Canada.
  4. Labrador Peninsula A large peninsula of eastern Canada, east of Hudson Bay.
  5. Mackenzie River A river flowing north from Great Slave Lake to the Arctic Ocean.
  6. St. Lawrence River The river that links the Great Lakes to the North Atlantic.
  7. Great Bear Lake The biggest lake wholly in Canada, on the Arctic Circle.
  8. Great Slave Lake North America's deepest lake, in the Northwest Territories.
  9. Lake Winnipeg A large lake in Manitoba, a Canadian province.

United States 8

  1. Rocky Mountains North America's largest mountain system, from Canada to New Mexico.
  2. Great Plains A broad expanse of flatland east of the Rocky Mountains.
  3. Lake Superior By surface area, the world's largest freshwater lake.
  4. Lake Huron A Great Lake shared by Ontario and the state of Michigan.
  5. Lake Erie The southernmost and shallowest of the five Great Lakes.
  6. Lake Ontario A Great Lake between Ontario and the state of New York.
  7. Columbia River The Pacific Northwest's largest river, rising in British Columbia.
  8. Yukon River A river across Yukon and Alaska to the Bering Sea.

Other 13

  1. Baffin Island The largest island in Canada, in the territory of Nunavut.
  2. Newfoundland A large island off the North American mainland's east coast.
  3. Vancouver Island A northeastern Pacific island, part of British Columbia.
  4. Coast Mountains A range along the coast of British Columbia, north into Yukon.
  5. Mackenzie Mountains A range on the boundary of Yukon and the Northwest Territories.
  6. Lake Athabasca A lake in the northern corners of Saskatchewan and Alberta.
  7. Labrador Sea A North Atlantic arm between Labrador and Greenland.
  8. Baffin Bay A sea between Greenland's west coast and Baffin Island.
  9. Davis Strait A strait between Greenland and Baffin Island, north of the Labrador Sea.
  10. Hudson Strait A strait linking Hudson Bay with Labrador Sea and Atlantic.
  11. James Bay A bay at Hudson Bay's southern end.
  12. Gulf of St. Lawrence The gulf where the St. Lawrence River meets the Atlantic.
  13. Beaufort Sea A marginal sea on the Arctic Ocean, north of Yukon and Alaska.

How this list was compiled: The 64 features, their names and their outlines come from Natural Earth 5.1.2, the map data credited under the drawing. Each name was compared with the English Wikipedia article for the feature, and every detail line was read in the opening of that article and checked 2026-10-01. Rivers are listed as rivers (Ohio River) where Natural Earth prints the bare name, and the bare name is accepted as a typed answer. Licence: own work

The drawing: Drawn for this site from Natural Earth 5.1.2, ne_50m_geography_regions_polys (scale 1:50,000,000), https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvkelso/natural-earth-vector/v5.1.2/geojson/ne_50m_geography_regions_polys.geojson, downloaded 2026-09-19; from Natural Earth 5.1.2, ne_50m_geography_marine_polys (scale 1:50,000,000), https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvkelso/natural-earth-vector/v5.1.2/geojson/ne_50m_geography_marine_polys.geojson, downloaded 2026-09-19; from Natural Earth 5.1.2, ne_50m_lakes (scale 1:50,000,000), https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvkelso/natural-earth-vector/v5.1.2/geojson/ne_50m_lakes.geojson, downloaded 2026-09-19; from Natural Earth 5.1.2, ne_50m_rivers_lake_centerlines (scale 1:50,000,000), https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvkelso/natural-earth-vector/v5.1.2/geojson/ne_50m_rivers_lake_centerlines.geojson, downloaded 2026-09-19. Surrounding land 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 45°N 100°W. 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 Canada physical map prints the country's landforms and waters with no province lines: mountain ranges, the Canadian Shield, rivers, lakes, bays and islands. Choose Numbered for a worksheet, or Named for the labeled map.

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A blank map of Canada with lakes and rivers

The sheet opens blank. Numbered puts a number on 30 features: 4 rivers, 8 lakes, 3 mountain ranges, 3 islands, and the plains, bays, seas and straits around them. Named writes the names instead. Press Print this map; the answer key prints on a sheet of its own.

What the map leaves off

No province, territory or city is drawn, and the land south of the border is part of the same drawing, so the Great Plains and the Rocky Mountains run on into the United States. Lake Michigan is drawn without a number because it lies entirely in the United States.

  • The Mackenzie River flows north, from Great Slave Lake to the Arctic Ocean.
  • Hudson Strait leads from Hudson Bay to the Labrador Sea.

Questions and answers

Which rivers and lakes are on the map?

Four rivers: the Mackenzie, Yukon, Columbia and St. Lawrence. Eight lakes: Great Bear, Great Slave, Athabasca and Winnipeg, and the four Great Lakes that Canada shares with the United States: Superior, Huron, Erie and Ontario.

What is the largest lake entirely in Canada?

Great Bear Lake, in the Northwest Territories, on the Arctic Circle. Lakes Superior and Huron are larger, but both are shared with the United States.

Is there a quiz on the same map?

Yes. Press Quiz yourself on this map. Each question names one feature to tap.

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