Choropleth map of the Americas

If you have a number for each country in the Americas, this page can colour them by it. Paste two columns from your spreadsheet, the country and its value, and Make my map opens the map with the 52 countries and territories coloured by your figures. The colours above are sample values, there until you paste your own.

How the colours read

A choropleth colours every area by a value, darker for more, with a legend to read the shades by. It is quick for comparing countries side by side and best with rates per person or per km². It does not give exact figures, and a point such as a single office needs a pin instead.

Data that suits the Americas

A company with customers across several countries can map orders per person to see where it is strongest. Health researchers map vaccination or hospital figures, economists map income per person, and an election team can map results with the Categories method, one colour for each winning party. Teachers use survey results the same way.

Getting your data in

One row per country or territory, with the name in the first column and the value in the second; ISO 3166 codes match too. Rows that do not match are listed with suggestions, to fix or skip. The blank spreadsheet on this page gives you every row with an empty Value column, which saves typing 52 names. Pastes can hold 5,000 rows and 2 MB.

Choosing the colours

With 52 areas you can use five or six steps and each will hold several. Quantile puts about the same number of countries in each, Equal steps keeps the legend ranges the same width and Natural breaks follows gaps in your figures. The smallest territories are drawn tiny, so give a table or a pin to anything whose value matters. For a closer look at one part, paste a table into the choropleth map of South America.