Yucatan Peninsula Map

The Yucatan Peninsula is a peninsula in Central America. This map shows its extent on shaded relief, with the surrounding relief, rivers, borders and cities.

Yucatan Peninsula Map
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How to read this map

It extends across Mexico, Belize and Guatemala.

The dashed outline marks the Yucatan Peninsula as mapped by Natural Earth. Towns and cities on the map include San Salvador, Guatemala City, Mérida, Tegucigalpa, San Pedro Sula, Quetzaltenango, Cancun and Tuxtla Gutiérrez. Labeled countries: Honduras and Guatemala.

Greens show lower elevations; tan and brown show higher land, with pale tones toward the highest terrain. Shadows emphasize the slopes, and vertical relief is exaggerated so landforms are easier to read. Dashed lines show country borders.

The relief uses Terrain Tiles (SRTM, GMTED2010 and ETOPO1 elevation data). Rivers, lakes, borders and the outline of the Yucatan Peninsula come from Natural Earth, and the figures on this page from Wikidata. Natural Earth draws features at a small scale, so the outline is a guide to where the Yucatan Peninsula is, not a surveyed boundary.

Blank physical map

The blank version keeps the mapped features and removes the place labels. Download it for a geography worksheet or practice identifying the features.

Yucatan Peninsula Map without names
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Yucatan Peninsula facts

FactValue
Body of waterthe Gulf of Mexico
CountriesMexico, Belize and Guatemala

Data sources and license

Map design and rendered images: Atlas of Maps, CC BY 4.0. Source databases retain their own licenses; the map license does not replace them.

Maps of the countries: Mexico, Belize, Guatemala. Compare with the world mountain ranges map.

Frequently asked questions

Where is the Yucatan Peninsula?

The Yucatan Peninsula is in Mexico, Belize and Guatemala.

Can I download a blank map of the Yucatan Peninsula?

Yes. The blank version keeps the relief, rivers and borders and the highlighted landform but removes the place names. Both versions are free to download as PNG and as an A4 PDF.

Use this map

You can download, print and share this map for free, in class, in school projects, in presentations and on websites, as long as you credit the source: Yucatan Peninsula Map · Atlas of Maps (atlasofmaps.com), license CC BY 4.0.

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