Editable map of German states

With only 16 states to work with, a map of the German states is quick to colour and easy to read from the back of a room. The map opens in the editor with every state drawn, so a plan, a lesson or a report can go from blank to coloured in a few minutes.

Plants, routes and regions

A manufacturer can colour the states where it has a plant and pin the sites: Stuttgart, Frankfurt and Mannheim sit among the largest cities, alongside Berlin and Hamburg. A sales director can split the 16 states into three or four regions, give each a colour and add a legend with the name of the person responsible. A buyer planning supplier visits can switch on Neighbours so Austria, Poland, the Netherlands and Switzerland show in grey, then draw a route that starts in one of them. Because there are so few states, name them all on the slide with Show names.

Lessons, trips and displays

Pupils can learn the 16 states in batches of four, colouring one batch each week and adding names as they go; a class display with a colour for each group looks tidy on the wall. A trip is three pins, perhaps Hamburg, Berlin and Frankfurt, joined by a route with numbered stops.

What to switch on

The bar on the map gives you colours, Borders for the line weight and Sea for a white sea. Customise this map opens the editor with a place list that names each state, so you can pick Saarland without searching. Minimal suits a report and Dark a deck with a dark theme.

For slides

Set the canvas to 16:9. A PNG with Transparent on sits on a slide's own background, and Copy image pastes into PowerPoint, Google Slides or Keynote; the map for PowerPoint page has more. SVG goes to Illustrator, Inkscape or Figma. The country's page, the editable map of Germany, shows the same states, and the blank map of German states gives you the bare outline.