Europe Map with Countries

Europe is most often counted as 44 countries, the UN's European grouping, and published counts range from about 40 to 51 depending on how transcontinental and partly recognized states are treated. This map of Europe has 46. It includes Russia, which appears in the usual 44, and adds Turkey, Cyprus, the South Caucasus states of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia, and Kosovo, which is not a UN member. It leaves out Liechtenstein, Monaco, San Marino and Vatican City, which are too small to show usefully at continental scale. The Council of Europe, a different grouping, also has 46 members.

Russia is the largest country in Europe by area. This map draws it only as far as its Urals administrative boundary, about 3.84 million km² (1.48 million sq mi), with the rest of the federation shown as muted surrounding land. Ukraine is the largest country lying entirely within Europe at 603,550 km² (233,032 sq mi), followed by metropolitan France at 551,695 km² (213,011 sq mi) and Spain at 505,990 km² (195,363 sq mi). Turkey covers 783,562 km² (302,535 sq mi) in total, but only its East Thrace region, about 23,764 km² (9,175 sq mi), lies west of the Turkish Straits.

Russia has the largest population of any European country at 143,513,328 (World Bank, 2025), a national figure covering territory on both sides of the Urals. Turkey is second with 85,878,556 and Germany third with 83,491,249, which makes Germany the most populous country lying completely in Europe. Istanbul, with about 15.7 million residents (TÜİK, 2023), is the largest city, but it spans the Bosporus. Moscow, with about 13.1 million (Rosstat, 2023), is the largest city lying wholly in Europe. The smallest populations among the drawn countries are Andorra's 82,904 and Iceland's 392,404 (World Bank, 2025).

The conventional Europe-Asia boundary runs along the Ural Mountains and Ural River, across the Caspian Sea, through the Caucasus, then along the Black Sea, the Bosporus and the Dardanelles. That line splits Russia, Turkey and Kazakhstan, and leaves Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia in a zone that different sources assign to either continent. On this map, Russia is drawn only west of its Urals administrative boundary, Turkey, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Cyprus are drawn whole, and Kazakhstan is not drawn. World Bank population and economic figures for Russia and Turkey cover each country in full, including its Asian territory.

Kosovo appears as a separate country because it has functioned as an independent state since its declaration of independence on 17 February 2008 and is recognized by more than 100 UN member states, including the United States and 22 of the 27 EU members. Serbia, Russia and China do not recognize it, and neither do five EU members: Cyprus, Greece, Romania, Slovakia and Spain. Kosovo is not a UN member, but it joined the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank in 2009. Some atlases still draw it as part of Serbia, and you can merge the two by coloring them alike in the editor.

All 27 EU members are drawn on this map of Europe: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain and Sweden. The other 19 countries shown are outside the EU, among them the United Kingdom, which left on 31 January 2020, plus Norway, Switzerland, Iceland, Serbia, Ukraine, Turkey and Russia. Twenty-one EU members use the euro. The six that do not are the Czech Republic, Denmark, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Sweden.

Monaco, San Marino, Liechtenstein and Vatican City are not drawn as separate countries here because they are too small to show usefully at continental scale. Vatican City covers 0.49 km² (0.19 sq mi) and is the world's smallest sovereign state, Monaco 2.1 km² (0.81 sq mi), San Marino 61 km² (24 sq mi) and Liechtenstein 160 km² (62 sq mi). Monaco and Vatican City would be smaller than a single pixel. Andorra, at 468 km² (181 sq mi), is large enough and is included. Liechtenstein and San Marino have their own detailed maps: San Marino and Liechtenstein.

Europe has no capital, because it is a continent of sovereign states rather than a single country. Brussels comes closest in common usage, since it hosts the European Commission, the Council of the European Union and part of the European Parliament's work. Other EU institutions sit elsewhere: the Court of Justice in Luxembourg, Parliament plenary sessions in Strasbourg, and the European Central Bank in Frankfurt. The Council of Europe, a separate organization, is also based in Strasbourg. Each of the 46 countries on this map has its own national capital, from Reykjavík in Iceland to Baku in Azerbaijan.

Open the editor on this page to make your own map of Europe. Give individual countries a color to show groupings such as EU members or the Nordic and Baltic states, or enter one number per country to produce a choropleth, with the legend added for you. Pins, country labels, border width, fonts and the background can all be changed. The editor is free to use and does not ask you to sign up. Exports on the free plan are standard PNG images that include a small Ultimaps credit. SVG, PDF and high-resolution PNG files come with the Pro plan.