Blank Alabama map

What the outline shows

The outline is the state boundary only. Nothing inside it is drawn: no county lines, no rivers, no city dots, no text. The default view shows the edges where Alabama meets Tennessee along the north, Georgia down the east, Florida along the south and Mississippi on the west. The one stretch of water that appears is the Gulf of Mexico around Mobile Bay, roughly 50 miles of coast at the bottom left corner. Press Capital to add a single dot at Montgomery, or Abbreviation to stamp "AL" in the middle of the state. Press Print and the browser produces one sheet with the map scaled to fill the page.

Portrait or landscape

Alabama is about 330 miles from north to south and about 190 miles across at its widest, near the Tennessee line. That ratio, close to 7:4, is almost exactly the ratio of a Letter or A4 sheet held upright. Print in portrait. In landscape the outline shrinks to about half the page width and leaves wide empty margins on both sides. The narrow Gulf foot and the Georgia border, which slants slightly to the southwest below the Chattahoochee, both stay legible at portrait scale.

Five classroom exercises

1. Draw the Tennessee River as it dips south from the Tennessee line, loops through the north of the state past Huntsville and Decatur, and exits at the northwest corner.
2. Trace the Chattahoochee River along the lower half of the Georgia border and mark where the boundary leaves the river and becomes a straight line north of Columbus, Georgia.
3. Shade Mobile Bay and label Mobile at its head; then mark Montgomery, Birmingham and Huntsville and check the answer key for their relative positions.
4. Sketch the Alabama and Tombigbee rivers meeting north of Mobile, and note that everything they drain reaches the Gulf through the same bay.
5. Draw the 31st parallel along the Florida border and explain why the western end of that border, near the Perdido River, is not on the parallel.

How to recognise the Alabama outline

• A near-rectangle taller than it is wide, with straight north, west and most of the south edges.
• A short Gulf coast in the bottom left, with Mobile Bay cutting into it like a keyhole.
• The eastern edge is straight at the top, then follows the winding Chattahoochee down to Florida.
• A tiny southwestern foot: the strip west of Mobile Bay that reaches the Mississippi line at the coast.

Answer key and related maps

• Alabama map — the labeled version with capital, cities and borders; use it as the answer key.
• Printable Alabama map — the same outline with cities, county lines and the capital printed on.
• Alabama county map — all 67 counties with their seats.
• Montgomery — the capital, in the south-central part of the state.
• Neighbours: Tennessee, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi blank maps.
• Gulf of Mexico map and the Appalachian Mountains, whose southern end is in Alabama.
• All blank state maps and the printable US maps index.