Sky distribution of survey tiles released in KiDS-ESO-DR3 (green) and in the previous releases KiDS-ESO-DR1 and -DR2 (blue). The multi-band source catalogue covers the combined area (blue + green) and the full KiDS area is shown in grey. Top: KiDS-North. Bottom: KiDS-South. Black dashed lines delineate the locations of the GAMA fields; the single pointing at RA = 150°is centred at the COSMOS/CFHTLS D2 field.