Our basemaps are created using a combination of proprietary data developed by National Geographic, licensed proprietary data from other providers and open data made available under a variety of sharing licenses. This page provides a detailed list of all credited sources.
For more information about how we map the world, see our official National Geographic Map Policy.
General
- EC JRC/Google Global Surface Water
- Esri: DeLorme, HERE, USGS, Intermap, iPC, NRCAN, Esri Japan, METI, Esri China (Hong Kong), Esri (Thailand), MapmyIndia, Tomtom
- Garmin Switzerland GmbH, Digital Atlas of the Earth (DAE) 2019 Hydro polygons & Hydro lines
- Global Self-consistent, Hierarchical, High-resolution Geography Database (GSHHG)
- HydroSHEDS database
- © OpenStreetMap contributors
- Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) Antarctic Digital Database
- Office of the Geographer and Global Issues at the U.S. Department of State (LSIB)
- USGS/Esri Global Island Explorer
- Who’s On First
Country-Specific
- Australia: Incorporates or developed using Administrative Boundaries © Geoscape Australia licensed by the Commonwealth of Australia under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0).
- Austria: Bundesamt für Eich- und Vermessungswesen
- Belarus: Redline
- Belgium: Statistics Belgium
- Belize: Jan Meerman
- Benin: Institut Géographique National du Bénin
- Brazil: Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE)
- Burkina Faso: OCHA Regional Office for West and Central Africa (ROWCA), World Bank Group
- Burundi: OCHA Burundi, IGEBU
- Cambodia: Department of Geography of Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction (MLMUPC), OCHA in Asia and the Pacific, Open Development Cambodia
- Cameroon: Minfof, Interactive Forest Atlas of Cameroon 2016
- Canada: Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada
- Chad: OCHA Chad
- Colombia: Instituto Geográfico Agustín Codazzi (IGAC)
- Côte d’Ivoire: OCHA Côte d’Ivoire, World Bank Group
- Czechia: File of Administrative Boundaries and Cadastral Units Boundaries of the CR, Czech Surveying and Cadastre Office
- Djibouti: Skilla1st
- Ecuador: El Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos (INEC)
- Estonia: Administrative and settlement division: Land Board 01.01.2019
- Finland: Contains the material of the National Land Survey of Finland's Terrain Database 2019
- France: Institut National de L’Information Géographique et Forestière, update July 2019. Data | License
- Gambia, The: OCHA Regional Office for West and Central Africa (ROWCA)
- Germany: © GeoBasis-DE / BKG 2018
- Greece: Hellenic Land Registry and Mapping Organization (OKXE)
- Greenland: Viewfinder Panoramas
- Iceland: Natural Science Institute of Iceland
- Indonesia: Ministry of National Development Planning (Kementerian PPN) 2019 update
- Ireland: Ordnance Survey Ireland
- Italy: Istituto Nazionale di Statistica
- Jamaica: Planning Institute of Jamaica
- Japan: National Land Numerical Information, Administrative districts version 2.3
- Kazakhstan: Zebra848; Bogomolov.PL
- Lesotho: World Food Program (WFP) Country Office 2014, World Bank Group
- Liberia: United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) GIS Unit, OCHA Regional Office for West and Central Africa (ROWCA)
- Mali: Direction Nationale des Collectivités Territoriales (DNCT), Direction Nationale de la Population (DNP), OCHA Mali
- Mexico: Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía (INEGI), Marco Geoestadístico 2010 versión 5.0.A
- Montenegro: Bapja
- Namibia: Namibia Statistics Agency
- New Zealand: Stats NZ
- Niger: OCHA Regional Office for West and Central Africa (ROWCA)
- Nigeria: OCHA Nigeria, World Bank Group
- Norway: Norwegian Mapping Authority
- Panama: Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censo
- Paraguay: Dirección Nacional de Correos del Paraguay (DINACOPA), 2019
- Philippines: OCHA Philippines, Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA)
- Romania: Agenţia Naţională de Cadastru şi Publicitate Imobiliară
- Russia: Rosreestr, GIS-Lab.info; Panther \ SkyBon; Victor V and Dagirov Umar; Viewfinder Panoramas
- Rwanda: Keith Patrick Garrett/GOST, World Bank Group
- Slovakia: Institute of Geodesy and Cartography Bratislava
- Spain: Instituto Geográfico Nacional
- Sudan: OCHA Sudan, World Bank Group
- Sweden: Lantmäteriet
- Switzerland: Swisstopo
- Tajikistan: SaidBahrom
- Tanzania: Tanzania National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), World Bank Group
- Thailand: ESRI Thailand
- Tunisia: MAP.TN
- United Kingdom: Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2021
- Uruguay: Servicio Geográfico Militar, Limites Departamentales, Open Data License – Uruguay
- Uzbekistan: Bogomolov.PL
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