Tarkov Maps Guide
Learn every Escape from Tarkov map with quick links for extracts, loot routes, quest areas, boss spawns, landmarks, and interactive map tools.
Why Map Knowledge Matters
Knowing where you spawned, where players rotate, and how to extract is one of the biggest survival upgrades in Tarkov.
Maps decide your raid plan
There are several strong community-made online maps for Escape from Tarkov, and they make learning each location much easier. Use them to check extracts, loot spawns, quest areas, boss locations, hidden stashes, and common routes before or during raids.
The more familiar you are with a map, the easier it is to avoid bad rotations, recognize dangerous areas, plan safer loot paths, and survive with quest progress.
Simple beginner rule
Learn extracts first, then learn landmarks, then learn loot and quest routes. A good raid starts with knowing where you are and how you plan to leave.
How to Learn Tarkov Maps
Use these habits to make each location easier to understand and less overwhelming.
Learn extracts first
Before chasing loot or PvP, learn where your extracts are and what conditions they require. Surviving the raid matters more than finding one good item.
Use landmarks
Every Tarkov map becomes easier once you recognize landmarks like roads, towers, rivers, buildings, power lines, and major loot areas.
Check quest locations
Many deaths happen because players run into quest areas without knowing the common angles, spawns, and traffic routes nearby.
Filter your map tools
Interactive maps are most useful when you filter for what you need, such as extracts, quest items, keys, stashes, bosses, or loose loot.
Best Tarkov Map Tools
Use these map resources to quickly check extracts, quest spots, loot spawns, bosses, keys, and routes.
Wiki map hub with map pages, extracts, and overview info.
Popular interactive maps with filters for loot, quests, and extracts.
Simple map access with useful companion Tarkov tools.
Clean interactive maps with a good layout for quick reference.
All Escape from Tarkov Maps
Quick overview cards for each Tarkov location, including player count, bosses, best use cases, route tips, loot notes, extracts, and useful map links.
Customs
Customs is a medium-sized semi-urban map and one of Tarkov’s most important progression locations. It is useful for learning PvP, PvE, extracts, landmarks, and early quest flow, with high-risk loot concentrated around Dorms, Crackhouse, and Stronghold.
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Factory
Factory is Tarkov’s smallest and most intense PvP map. It is useful for learning close-range fights, spawn timing, audio cues, vertical combat, office fights, and how to survive chaotic early raid pressure.
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Interchange
Interchange is a massive three-level shopping mall surrounded by parking lots, highways, open fields, and expanded outdoor routes. It has strong tech loot, dangerous indoor angles, valuable outside loot paths, and some of the most camped extracts in Tarkov.
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Shoreline
Shoreline is a large mid-to-late game map built around the Health Resort, coastline, village, cottages, pier, weather station, and newer expansion areas. It is one of Tarkov’s most important quest maps and remains one of the most time-efficient places to farm LEDX spawns, safes, rare keycards, medical loot, and high-value barter items.
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Lighthouse
Lighthouse is a narrow north-to-south coastal map with brutal sightlines, predictable high-traffic routes, dangerous Rogue territory, and some of Tarkov’s strongest loot. It is one of the best maps for making money, farming Rogues, finding military tech, and practicing PvP, but it punishes players who cross open roads or push Water Treatment without a plan.
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Streets of Tarkov
Streets of Tarkov is Tarkov’s largest urban map, built around Primorsky Avenue, city blocks, hotels, malls, apartments, LexOs, Concordia, back alleys, courtyards, and underground routes. It is one of the richest maps in the game, but it can be overwhelming because nearly every building, window, alley, and interior path can change how players rotate.
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Woods
Woods is a large outdoor map built around forests, lakes, Mountain Peak, Sawmill, USEC Camp, Emercom Base, Village, Scav Bunker, Scav House, and long sightlines. It is one of the best maps for quiet money runs, hidden stashes, scav-kill quests, and outdoor PvP, but it punishes players who do not understand landmarks, mines, and spawn-side extracts.
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Ground Zero
Ground Zero is Tarkov’s beginner-focused urban map, designed to teach spawning, extracting, looting, PvP, questing, vertical fights, and short urban rotations. The map is split between street level and an underground route, with a central road dividing the main buildings and extracts.
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The Lab
The Lab is Tarkov’s high-risk endgame PvP map set inside a secret TerraGroup research facility. After 1.0, Labs access is tied to Tour progression and transits from Factory or Streets using a Labs access card. There are no normal scav runs, insurance does not work, and the map is packed with Raiders, geared PMCs, rare medical loot, colored keycard rooms, and hideout-critical tech.
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Terminal
Terminal is Tarkov’s endgame escape location tied to the final story progression. It is not a normal loot-focused map. You transit there from Shoreline at night using a Terminal access card, fight through Black Division soldiers, repair panels, open secured routes, survive a random boss encounter, and reach the final pier extract to escape Tarkov.
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Best Overall Advice
Do not try to learn every Tarkov map at once. Pick one location, learn its extracts, run a few safe routes, then add loot spots, quest areas, and PvP hotspots over time. Map knowledge compounds quickly, and even basic landmark awareness can turn confusing raids into planned routes.