Choropleth map of Southeast Asia
Paste your numbers by country and get a colour-coded map with a legend.
Your data on a map of Southeast Asia
If you have one figure for each country of Southeast Asia, such as sales, survey scores or visitor numbers, this page puts it on a map. Paste two columns from your spreadsheet, the country and its value, and Make my map opens the region with its 11 countries coloured by your numbers. The colours above are sample values until you paste your own.
What the colours mean
A choropleth colours each area by a value, here each country of the region, usually darker for more, with a legend to read the shades by. It suits comparing countries side by side, and rates per person or per km² more than totals. It does not show exact figures or points such as offices; for those, pins on the editable map work better.
Figures people map for the region
Regional teams map revenue, customers or orders by country to see where a market is strong. Researchers and charities map health or education figures, such as vaccination rates or school enrolment, which compare fairly between large and small countries once they are rates. Tourism boards and travel writers map visitors or hotel nights. Survey results work well too: a satisfaction score per country, with one colour scale across all 11.
Pasting the table
Use one row per country, the name in the first column and the value in the second. The importer reads common spellings, including Viet Nam and Lao PDR, and ISO 3166 codes. Rows it cannot match are listed with suggestions, to fix or skip. The blank spreadsheet on this page lists every country with its code and an empty Value column. A paste can hold up to 5,000 rows and 2 MB.
Colour steps for 11 countries
With 11 countries, three or four colour steps keep each shade meaningful; seven would leave some steps nearly empty. Quantile spreads the countries evenly across the steps, Natural breaks follows the gaps in your figures and Categories gives each label its own colour, such as the stage a project has reached. Use a one-colour scale for low-to-high data and a diverging scale for change either side of zero. For data about the organisation rather than the region, use the choropleth map of ASEAN, which shows the same 11 countries.
How to do it in MapMaker
- Copy the country column and the value column from your spreadsheet and paste them into the box.
- Choose Make my map to open Southeast Asia with your figures on its 11 countries, or Upload a CSV if the table is saved as a file.
- Fix or skip any rows the editor could not match, then set three or four classes in the Data panel.
- Choose Download to save the map and its legend as a PNG, SVG or PDF.
Facts about Southeast Asia
11 members are on the map. The members are Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Timor-Leste and Vietnam.
Maps of places in Southeast Asia
Questions people ask
Which countries can I add data for on the map of Southeast Asia?
The 11 countries of the region: Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Timor-Leste and Vietnam. Paste one row for each, and the blank spreadsheet on this page gives you the 11 rows ready to fill.
Which names and codes for the countries does it recognise?
Common English names and other spellings, with or without accents, and ISO 3166 country codes. Viet Nam, Lao PDR, Burma, Brunei Darussalam and East Timor all match, so a table copied from a report usually goes in as it is.
How are the colour steps chosen?
With 11 countries, three or four steps read best. Quantile puts about the same number of countries in each step; Equal steps cuts the range of values into equal slices. Both are in the Data panel, where you can change the method and the number of classes.
Is there a blank spreadsheet of the countries of Southeast Asia?
Yes. Download a blank spreadsheet of Southeast Asia's countries from this page: a CSV with each country's name and a code the importer accepts, and an empty Value column to fill in.