Display with the default GeoBackground:

Use satellite imagery as geo background:

Use a vector map style as geo background:

Display with the default GeoBackground:

Explicitly specify an automatic GeoBackground:

Use satellite imagery as background:

Use satellite imagery from an external tile provider:

Show no geo background:

Use vector map styles as geo background:

Use the light and dark versions of the default map of the world:

Use the versions with and without labels of the "Plain" map of Australia:

Show country borders in the geo background:

Show country borders in the year 1800 for the region corresponding to modern Italy:

Overlay several geo background map styles:

Specify parameters for one of the styles:

Control the geo zoom level independently for several geo background styles:

Use GeoBackground to display a relief for all regions that lie within the bounding box of the given primitive:

Take an image:

Display that image as geo background, partially visible behind the map:

Specify a region of the map for the geo background image using projected coordinates:

GeoBackgroundGeoStyling[{"GeoImage",image}] specifies that the image was given in latitude-longitude space, and therefore will be transformed to the map projection:

GeoBackground applies to the geographic map, and Background to the whole graphic:

Specifying None as a geo background is not the same as specifying GeoStyling[None]:

Specifying Automatic as a geo background is not the same as specifying GeoStyling[Automatic]:

Specifying "OutlineMap" as geo background sets the style of the whole geo background polygon:

Use "Coastlines" or "CountryBorders" to include an actual map in the geo background:

Interactively explore map foreground and background styles:

Add a tapered "swoosh" map effect around Paris:

Show the "swooshed" map: