Licence and credit
You can use these maps in articles, videos, lessons, books and posts, including commercial ones. Credit Indus Atlas every time.
The licence
The maps, their images and the data compiled for them are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-SA 4.0). Under it you may copy, share, crop, translate and adapt the maps, as long as you:
- credit Indus Atlas and link to indusatlas.vercel.app,
- say if you changed the map, and
- share any adapted version under the same licence.
How to credit
Put this next to the map, in the caption or the description:
Map: Indus Atlas (indusatlas.vercel.app), CC BY-SA 4.0
If you changed it, add “adapted” after the map title. Downloaded PNGs carry the address and licence in a strip under the map; please leave the strip in, or give the credit line instead if you crop it out.
Why share-alike
Some base maps used here are themselves under share-alike licences, including the Wikimedia Commons blank district map of Pakistan (CC BY-SA 4.0). Adaptations of those have to stay share-alike, so the whole atlas uses the same licence for consistency.
Source data
The licence covers the maps and the way the data was compiled. It does not change the terms of the sources underneath, which keep their own: UCDP event data and GeoNames under CC BY 4.0, geoBoundaries under its per-country terms, Natural Earth in the public domain, Wikipedia under CC BY-SA, and the census volumes, South Asia Terrorism Portal and news reports under their publishers’ terms. Each map’s page lists its sources.
Site text and design
The text, crest and design of this website are © 2026 Indus Atlas. Ask before reusing the crest.
Borders
The partition and Kashmir maps draw hypothetical borders from census majorities. They are for discussion and are not endorsements of any claim. Boundaries on all maps are drawn for display and are not authoritative.