Thanks for the suggestions, I have come to realize that the black box is a remnant layer from QGIS, not a result of Inkscape, it's just not visible in Inkscape until I save as an .emf.

Hi All, I haven't been able to find a good answer to this problem through many searches and looking at the manual, I may not know the correct wording to explain my problem. I am importing a map from QGIS in .svg format, so that I can edit and move the map elements. However, a larger section of the m...