Global Soil Maps - conventional

 

Soil maps are showing the distribution of soils in a given area. The traditional conventional soil map is the end product of a soil survey. The main online providers for soil maps are the ISRIC, FAO and the Joint Research Centre for Soils JRC. The following list is a collection of national soil maps with a scale ranging from 1:40 000 to 1:7.5 million. The available maps are in most cases scanned conventional soil maps from the 1950s to 1980s.

 

Continent

Country

National Soil Maps

Africa

Algeria

1:0.5 million Alger

 

1:0.5 million Mascara

 

1:0.5 million Biskra

 

1:0.5 million Constantine

 

Legend 1:0.5 million

 

1:0.5 million Oran

 

1:0.5 million Orleansville

 

1:0.5 million Tebessa

Angola

1:3 million

Benin

1:1 million

Botswana

1:1 million part1

 

1:1 million part2

Bukina Faso

1:1 million

Burundi

1:5 million

Cameroon

1:1 million North part1

 

1:1 million South part2

C. African Rep.

1:1 million

Chad

1:1 0.5 million

DR Congo

1:5 million

Cote d'Ivoir

1:2 million

Djibouti

1:1 million

Egypt

1:4 million

Ethiopia

1:2 million

Gabon

1:2 million

Gambia

 1:125 000 coastal part

 

1:125 000 western part

 

1:125 000 central part

 

1:125 000 eastern part

Ghana

1:2 million

Kenya

1:1 million North

 

1:1 million South

Lesotho

1:250 000  West

 

1:250 000 East

Madagascar

 1:5 million 

Malawi

 1:1 million

Mali

1:1 million

Mauritania

 

Mauritius

1:100 000

Morocco

1:1.5 million

Mozambique

1:4 million

Namibia

1:7.5 million

Niger

no scale

Nigeria

1: 1 300 000

Rwanda

1:5 million

Senegal

1:1 million

Seychelles

1:50 000 part1

 

1:50 000 part2

 

1:50 000 part3

 

1:50 000 part4

Sierra Leone

1:1 million

Somalia

1:1 million

South Africa

1:2.5 million

Sudan

1:2 million

Swaziland

1:125 000 1 North

 

1:125 000 2 South

Tanzania

1:2 million

Togo

1:0.5 million part1

 

1:0.5 million part2

 

1:0.5 million part3

 

1:0.5 million part4

 

1:0.5 million part5

Tunisia

1:1.8 million

Uganda

1:1 0.5 million

Zambia

1:3 million

 

1:2.5 million

Zaire

1:5 million

Zimbabwe

1:2.5 million

   

Asia

Afghanistan

1:1 million

 

1:5 million

Armenia

no scale

Bangladesh

no scale

Myanmar

no scale

Cambodia

1:1 million

China

1:10 million

 

no scale

Hong Kong

no scale

India

1:6.3 million

 

no scale

Indonesia

1:7.15 million

Iran

1:2.5 million

 

no scale

Iraq

1:1 million

Israel

1:0.5 million

Japan

1:2 million

Korea, North

1:4 million

Korea, South

1:4 million

 

1:1 million

Lebanon

1:1 million

Malaysia

1:1 million

 

no scale

Mongolia

no scale

Myanmar

no scale

Nepal

no scale

Pakistan

1:1 million northern part

 

1:1 million southern part

Philippines

1:4.2 million

Sri Lanka

1:1 million

 

no scale

Syria

1:1 million

Taiwan

1:250 000 northern part

 

1:250 000 southern part

Thailand

1:1.25 million

Vietnam

no scale

 

1:1 million  South

   

Europe

Austria

1:1 million

Belgium

1:0.5 million

Bulgaria

1:1 million

Czech Republic

1:1 million

Germany

1:1 million West

 

1:1 million

Hungary

1:0.5 million

Iceland

1:750 000

Italy

1:1 million

 

no scale

Luxembourg

1:100 000

Netherlands

1:1 million

Norway

1:2 million

Poland

1:2 million

Portugal

1:1 million

Romania

1:1 million

Russia

1:25 million

Switzerland

no scale

Turkey

1:1 million western part

 

1:1 million eastern part

United Kingdom

no scale

   

North America

Canada

1:1 million western part

 

1:1 million eastern part

USA

1:7.5 million

   

Oceania

Australia

no scale

 

no scale

Papua New Guinea

1:2.5 million

 

1:3.5 million

   

L America & Caribbean

Argentina

no scale

Bolivia

1:4 million

Brazil

1:5 million

Chile

1:6 million

Colombia

1:1.5 million

Cuba

no scale

Dominica

1:40 000 North

 

1:40 000 South

Ecuador

1:2 million

El Salvador

1:300 000

French Guiana

1:350 000

Honduras

1:250 000 eastern part

 

1:250 000 western part

Paraguay

1:0.5 million southern part

Peru

1:3 million

Uruguay

1:1 million

Venezuela

1:1.5 million

Mexico

1:4 million

 

no scale

 

Scanned Soil Maps of the World

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ISRIC World Soil Information data sets: click here

 

USDA global soil information