Your free, editable world map for Google Slides!

If you’re an avid PowerPoint user you may be familiar with its handy map feature, which allows users to add a fully customisable world map to their slides. It’s a useful resource and one that we wish Google Slides had too. Whilst Slides has great in-built features and resources – from graphs and charts to free add-on icon sets – it just isn’t as feature heavy as PowerPoint, and misses out on some useful tools. We really struggled without the ability to add customisable maps to Google Slides, so we made our own!

And if, like us, you are looking for a way to add editable maps to Google Slides, we’ve made our maps available for free for you to download and use as well!

Click here to get your free, editable world map for Google Slides. Instructions on how to use it are at the bottom of this article. 

Why do I need an editable map?

Maps are a great tool for telling visual stories; illustrating how locations around the world connect, showing global route maps for travel logistics, or presenting geographical statistics in an engaging way. There’s loads you can do with a well designed map. Here are a few examples.

Product usage by country

Travel routes

Produce by country

How do I use it?

To get your free, editable world maps for Google Slides, click here to download the maps as an .odp file.

  1. Go to your Google Drive, and click the New button in the top left corner to upload the .odp file to your Drive.
  2. Once the file is uploaded, open it up, and click Open with at the top of your browser window.
  3. Select Open with Google Slides.
  4. Ta da! You now have a selection of editable maps you can copy and paste into any Google Slides presentation.

If PowerPoint is more your thing, check out our free to download, editable PowerPoint maps here. If you’re looking for more ways to improve your Google Slides presentations head on over to our ULTIMATE guide to Google Slides!

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Natty Watton-Moore

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  1. Image of Sherry Means Sherry Means says:

    Your google maps are perfect for my 7th grade Geography! Thank you

  2. Image of Stephan Stephan says:

    Great map and resource! Unfortunately more than a few countries are missing (e.g. Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, South Sudan).

    • Image of Natty Moore Natty Moore says:

      Great spot Stephan – thanks for bringing our attention to this. We’ll look into it.

  3. Image of DP DP says:

    Downloaded the powerpoint and it’s just 10 empty slides?

  4. Image of DP DP says:

    Hi, thanks for the maps! It appears that there is a mistake in India’s shape (northern part). Refer to the official maps for the correct shape. Thanks!

  5. Image of Lindsay Lindsay says:

    Thank you so much for creating and sharing this resource!! It’s amazing – exactly what I was looking for to share with my students. You are AWESOME. Thank you, Thank you!

  6. Image of Malte Malte says:

    I am trying to remove certain countries, and all works, except that I am not able to remove china from the world map, any idea what I can do?

  7. Image of Ann Hlabangana-Clay Ann Hlabangana-Clay says:

    This is amazing! Thanks a million for the resource and the directions!

  8. Image of Anna Anna says:

    I was super excited about this until I discovered that some countries in Central Asia were not properly defined. Kyrgyzstan and Tajiksitan were included as part of China. I was quite disappointed that separate countries were advertised but not accurately outlined! If this is fixed, this map would be perfect.

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