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I need a layout like this on a single page without any other text or floats.

| figure 1a | figure 1b |

   Caption for Figure 1


| figure 2a | figure 2b |

   Caption for Figure 2

Do anyone know what to do with it?

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  • Do you need a caption for each of the subfigures as well? That is, do you want them numbered 1a, 1b, 2a and 2b or just a combined Figure 1 and Figure 2 caption? – Werner May 20 '14 at 16:06

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If you're not interested in separate sub-captions for each of the sub-figures, then you can get away with only the following:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{lipsum,graphicx,afterpage}
\begin{document}

\lipsum[1-3]

\afterpage{\clearpage}% To make sure the image appears on the following page
\begin{figure}[p]
  \centering
  \null\hfill%
  \includegraphics[width=.3\linewidth]{example-image-a}%
  \hfill%
  \includegraphics[width=.3\linewidth]{example-image-b}%
  \hfill\null%
  \caption{This is the first figure}

  \null\hfill%
  \includegraphics[width=.3\linewidth]{example-image-b}%
  \hfill%
  \includegraphics[width=.3\linewidth]{example-image-a}%
  \hfill\null%
  \caption{This is the second figure}
\end{figure}

\lipsum[4-10]
\end{document}

\hfills stretches out the space beside each sub-float, similar to what is achieved in Reduction of space between two sub-figures (with \hspace*{\fill}).

If you want sub-captions as well, then you need to include a package that provides that functionality. Here's one such implementation using the subcaption package:

enter image description here

\usepackage{subcaption}
%...
\begin{figure}[p]
  \centering
  \null\hfill%
  \subcaptionbox{sub 1a}
    {\includegraphics[width=.3\linewidth]{example-image-a}}%
  \hfill%
  \subcaptionbox{sub 1b}
    {\includegraphics[width=.3\linewidth]{example-image-b}}%
  \hfill\null%
  \caption{This is the first figure}

  \null\hfill%
  \subcaptionbox{sub 2a}
    {\includegraphics[width=.3\linewidth]{example-image-b}}%
  \hfill%
  \subcaptionbox{sub 2b}
    {\includegraphics[width=.3\linewidth]{example-image-a}}%
  \hfill\null%
  \caption{This is the second figure}
\end{figure}

Other options (with a slightly different interface) would be to use subfig (not the obsolete subfigure).

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