Fallout New Vegas map

A Fallout New Vegas map with all locations and names

Most Fallout New Vegas maps you find online are a single picture of the Pip-Boy map with a few labels on top. This one is built differently. Every pin carries the location name used in the game, so you are looking at a Fallout New Vegas map with names, not a grid of anonymous icons. Click or tap a pin and you get the short version: what is there, what to watch out for and which quests start nearby.

Behind every pin is a full page in the locations directory. Each page lists the loot, the quests, the characters you meet, the enemies that live there, the collectibles hidden inside and the easiest way to get there. If you are trying to find a single place, such as Novac with its dinosaur motel and Craig Boone on the roof, type it into the search box and the map jumps straight to it.

A complete, high resolution map of the Mojave

The base map is a high resolution Fallout New Vegas map drawn from the in-game world and split into tiles, so it stays fast on a phone. You can zoom out to see the full Fallout New Vegas map, from the Spring Mountains in the west to the Colorado River in the east, then zoom in far enough to tell which side of a building a cave entrance is on. Roads, railways, rivers and the shore of Lake Mead are all visible, which makes it easy to plan a walk between two places.

It is also a complete Fallout New Vegas map in the sense that matters for a playthrough. Besides the 191 places that get a marker on your Pip-Boy, it shows the unmarked spots players usually miss: hidden caches, named buildings inside towns, campsites and graves. If you came looking for a poster-sized map to keep beside your screen, this does the same job, and you can also search it and tick places off.

How to use the interactive map

The interactive map works the same way on desktop and on mobile:

1. Open the interactive map and pick a world from the map menu: the Mojave Wasteland or one of the four DLC worlds.
2. Use the filters to show only what you care about, for example vaults, snow globes, skill books or merchants.
3. Search by name to jump to a location, an item or a character.
4. Click a pin to read about it, then open its page for the full details.
5. Mark a pin as found, then switch on the option to hide found pins so only what is left stays on the map.

Your progress is saved in your own browser. There is no account to create and no limit on how many pins you track. You can export your progress to a file and import it on another device.

How big is the Fallout New Vegas map?

Obsidian never published an official size, but lead designer Josh Sawyer described the playable area as about 60 to 65 cells tall and 40 to 45 cells wide. The Capital Wasteland in Fallout 3 is 51 by 51 cells. On paper that makes the two worlds very close in size, with New Vegas slightly bigger. Fan measurements of the world space land in the same place, at roughly 8.5 square kilometres, a little over 3 square miles.

In practice, New Vegas feels bigger in some ways and smaller in others. The map is taller than it is wide, and much of its edge is mountains you cannot cross, so most of the action sits along a central band: from Goodsprings and Primm in the south-west, up through Novac and the Strip, to Jacobstown and Nellis in the north. Fallout 3 spreads its locations more evenly over its square map. If you are asking which map is bigger, Fallout 3 or New Vegas, the honest answer is that they are about the same.

The Fallout New Vegas map compared to real life

The Mojave Wasteland is based on the real Mojave Desert around Las Vegas. According to Sawyer, the team built the terrain from USGS topographic data and drew the borders along real natural features such as the Spring Mountains and the Colorado River. That is why the Fallout New Vegas map lines up so well with a road map of southern Nevada.

Many places on the map are real. Goodsprings is a real town, and its Prospector Saloon is modelled on the Pioneer Saloon there. Primm, Nipton, Searchlight, Boulder City, Hoover Dam, Lake Mead, Red Rock Canyon, Black Mountain, Nellis Air Force Base and the Las Vegas Strip all exist. Others, like Novac and the vaults, are invented. The big difference between the Fallout New Vegas map and real life is distance. Goodsprings to the Strip is a short walk in the game, but in real life it is about 35 miles of desert. So the map is accurate in layout and heavily compressed in scale.

Maps for all four DLC worlds

Each add-on has its own world map with its own pins and progress tracking. You can switch between them from the map menu or from the DLC overview.

• Sierra Madre from Dead Money: the Villa, the casino and the streets filled with the Cloud.
• Zion Canyon from Honest Hearts: the canyon you reach through the Northern Passage, just north of New Vegas.
• Big MT from Old World Blues: the Think Tank, Higgs Village and the X-labs.
• The Divide from Lonesome Road: the ruined road to the Courier's past and its missile silos.

Collectible guides that link back to the map

If you are going for completion, the collectible guides work as checklists. Each one lists the exact spot for every item and links to its pin, so you can switch between reading and searching without losing your place.

• Snow globes, worth 2,000 caps each at the Lucky 38.
• Skill books that permanently raise a skill.
• Star bottle caps for the Sunset Sarsaparilla quest.
• Unique weapons and unique armor with their locations.
• Companions and where to recruit each one.
• Vaults and what you find inside them.

Free, fast and in eight languages

The site is free to use and supported by ads. Every page is a plain static page and the map loads as one small script, so it stays quick even on a slow connection. Location names, guides and the map itself are available in English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese and Korean. Pick your language from the menu at the top of any page.