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Map charts: turn a spreadsheet into a map

119 geographies — countries, US states and their counties, continents and regions — each drawn three ways. Upload your data, or download a free blank outline to print.

Three ways to draw the same map

Shade the regions when your number is a rate, size a marker when it is a count. Getting this backwards is the most common way a data map misleads.

Choropleth

Shade each region

Colour intensity carries the value. The right choice for rates, shares and per-capita figures, which are already adjusted for how big or populous a region is.

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Symbols

A sized marker per region

One symbol on each region, scaled by value. Use it for counts and totals, where shading the land area would just redraw the population map.

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Bubbles

Proportional circles

Circles sized by value, sitting over the outline. Reads well when a few regions dominate and small ones would otherwise disappear into a shade.

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Countries

National maps divided into their own internal regions.

US states, by county

One US state at a time, drawn at county level.

By counties

Alabama

A blank Alabama county map to print, and a builder to fill it with your own data. Download the free outline of all 67 counties, or upload a spreadsheet and publish an interactive Alabama map you can embed anywhere.

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By counties

Arizona

A blank Arizona county map to print, and a builder to fill it with your own data. Download the free outline of all 15 counties, or upload a spreadsheet and publish an interactive Arizona map you can embed anywhere.

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By counties

California

A blank California county map to print, and a builder to fill it with your own data. Download the free outline of all 58 counties, or upload a spreadsheet and publish an interactive California map you can embed anywhere.

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By counties

Colorado

A blank Colorado county map to print, and a builder to fill it with your own data. Download the free outline of all 64 counties, or upload a spreadsheet and publish an interactive Colorado map you can embed anywhere.

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By counties

Florida

A blank Florida county map to print, and a builder to fill it with your own data. Download the free outline of all 67 counties, or upload a spreadsheet and publish an interactive Florida map you can embed anywhere.

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By counties

Georgia

A blank Georgia county map to print, and a builder to fill it with your own data. Download the free outline of all 159 counties, or upload a spreadsheet and publish an interactive Georgia map you can embed anywhere.

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By counties

Illinois

A blank Illinois county map to print, and a builder to fill it with your own data. Download the free outline of all 102 counties, or upload a spreadsheet and publish an interactive Illinois map you can embed anywhere.

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By counties

Indiana

A blank Indiana county map to print, and a builder to fill it with your own data. Download the free outline of all 92 counties, or upload a spreadsheet and publish an interactive Indiana map you can embed anywhere.

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By parishes

Louisiana

Louisiana has parishes rather than counties — 64 of them, and they work exactly like counties everywhere else. Download the free blank outline to print, or upload a spreadsheet and publish an interactive Louisiana parish map you can embed anywhere.

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By counties

Maryland

A blank Maryland county map to print, and a builder to fill it with your own data. Download the free outline of all 23 counties, or upload a spreadsheet and publish an interactive Maryland map you can embed anywhere.

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By counties

Michigan

A blank Michigan county map to print, and a builder to fill it with your own data. Download the free outline of all 83 counties across both peninsulas, or upload a spreadsheet and publish an interactive Michigan map you can embed anywhere.

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By counties

Minnesota

A blank Minnesota county map to print, and a builder to fill it with your own data. Download the free outline of all 87 counties, or upload a spreadsheet and publish an interactive Minnesota map you can embed anywhere.

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By counties

Missouri

A blank Missouri county map to print, and a builder to fill it with your own data. Download the free outline of all 114 counties, or upload a spreadsheet and publish an interactive Missouri map you can embed anywhere.

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By counties

New Jersey

A blank New Jersey county map to print, and a builder to fill it with your own data. Download the free outline of all 21 counties, or upload a spreadsheet and publish an interactive New Jersey map you can embed anywhere.

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By counties

New York

A blank New York county map to print, and a builder to fill it with your own data. Download the free outline of all 62 counties, or upload a spreadsheet and publish an interactive New York map you can embed anywhere.

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By counties

North Carolina

A blank North Carolina county map to print, and a builder to fill it with your own data. Download the free outline of all 100 counties, or upload a spreadsheet and publish an interactive North Carolina map you can embed anywhere.

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By counties

Ohio

A blank Ohio county map to print, and a builder to fill it with your own data. Download the free outline of all 88 counties, or upload a spreadsheet and publish an interactive Ohio map you can embed anywhere.

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By counties

Oregon

A blank Oregon county map to print, and a builder to fill it with your own data. Download the free outline of all 36 counties, or upload a spreadsheet and publish an interactive Oregon map you can embed anywhere.

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By counties

Pennsylvania

A blank Pennsylvania county map to print, and a builder to fill it with your own data. Download the free outline of all 67 counties, or upload a spreadsheet and publish an interactive Pennsylvania map you can embed anywhere.

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By counties

South Carolina

A blank South Carolina county map to print, and a builder to fill it with your own data. Download the free outline of all 46 counties, or upload a spreadsheet and publish an interactive South Carolina map you can embed anywhere.

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By counties

Tennessee

A blank Tennessee county map to print, and a builder to fill it with your own data. Download the free outline of all 95 counties, or upload a spreadsheet and publish an interactive Tennessee map you can embed anywhere.

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By counties

Texas

A blank Texas county map to print, and a builder to fill it with your own data. Download the free outline of all 254 counties, or upload a spreadsheet and publish an interactive Texas map you can embed anywhere.

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By counties

Virginia

A blank Virginia county map to print, and a builder to fill it with your own data. Download the free outline of the counties and independent cities, or upload a spreadsheet and publish an interactive Virginia map you can embed anywhere.

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By counties

Washington

A blank Washington State county map to print, and a builder to fill it with your own data. Download the free outline of all 39 counties, or upload a spreadsheet and publish an interactive Washington map you can embed anywhere.

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By counties

Wisconsin

A blank Wisconsin county map to print, and a builder to fill it with your own data. Download the free outline of all 72 counties, or upload a spreadsheet and publish an interactive Wisconsin map you can embed anywhere.

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119 geographies ready to go, 26 with a full guide

Every geography in the catalogue is available in the editor today, whether or not it has a page here yet.