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WA · 39 counties · 71,298 sq mi · print landscape · West · Pacific
Blank Washington map
A blank outline of Washington, with Puget Sound cutting deep into the northwest and the Columbia River along the south. Thirty-nine county lines are hidden.
What the outline shows
The map draws the state boundary. The north edge is the 49th parallel against British Columbia, then the water boundary through the Strait of Georgia and the Strait of Juan de Fuca past the San Juan Islands. The west is the Pacific coast, with Grays Harbor and Willapa Bay, and the Olympic Peninsula's north shore along the strait. Puget Sound reaches south from the strait almost to Olympia and is drawn in full, with Whidbey and Bainbridge islands inside it. The south edge is the Columbia River from the Pacific east to the Wallula Gap, then a straight line to Idaho. The east edge with Idaho is a straight meridian. Nothing inside is drawn. Press Capital to mark Olympia at the southern tip of Puget Sound, not Seattle, which is 60 miles north.
Portrait or landscape
Washington is about 360 miles east to west and about 240 miles north to south. Print in landscape. The rectangle then fills the width of the page and Puget Sound's many channels in the top left are readable. Portrait would shrink the map by about a third. For the Puget Sound region alone, zoom to the area between the strait and Olympia and print portrait, since the sound runs north–south.
Five classroom exercises
- Trace the Columbia River along the southern border, then draw it north through the centre of the state in its big bend past Grand Coulee to the Canadian line.
- Draw Puget Sound with the Strait of Juan de Fuca leading to it, and place Seattle, Tacoma and Olympia along its eastern and southern shores.
- Draw the Cascade Range as a north–south line through the middle of the state, and mark Mount Rainier, Mount Saint Helens and Mount Baker on it.
- Shade the Olympic Peninsula and mark the Olympic Mountains in its centre and Cape Flattery at its northwest tip.
- Draw the Snake River entering from Idaho and joining the Columbia at the Tri-Cities, and mark Spokane in the northeast.
How to recognise the Washington outline
- A wide rectangle with a flat top and straight right edge.
- A deep, branching inlet, Puget Sound, cut into the top left corner.
- A wavy bottom edge (the Columbia) that turns straight in the eastern third.
- A short Pacific coast on the left with the Olympic Peninsula bulging out at the top.
- Islands in the top left: the San Juans near Canada and Whidbey inside the sound.
Answer key and related maps
- Washington map — the labeled version with capital, cities and borders; use it as the answer key.
- Printable Washington map — the same outline with cities, county lines and the capital printed on.
- Washington county map — all 39 counties with their seats.
- Olympia — the capital, at the south end of Puget Sound.
- Neighbours: Idaho and Oregon blank maps.
- Columbia River, Cascade Range and Pacific Northwest.
- All blank state maps and the printable US maps index.