Editable map of UK counties and council areas

Anyone who needs a map below country level in the UK ends up with this one: a delivery round, a franchise patch, a planning report or a school project that works county by county. The map opens in the editor with all 232 administrative areas drawn, so you colour the shapes you need and leave the rest.

Patches, rounds and sites

A regional sales team can give each rep a colour and click the counties and council areas that rep covers, with a legend that carries the rep's name. A trade business can colour the areas it will travel to and pin Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds and Sheffield as bases. A property or retail report can mark the areas with a shop in one colour and the areas planned next in another. With so many shapes on the page, a national slide works best when most are left grey and a handful carry colour.

A project or a trip

Pupils studying a handful of areas, such as Cornwall, Highland or Gwynedd, can colour them and show the names; a family can colour where relatives lived, one colour per branch, and add a title. A road trip is a few pins, say London, Leeds and Manchester, joined by a route with numbered stops.

Working with 232 areas

Small areas are hard to hit on a page map, so use Customise this map: the editor's place list names each one, and a pick selects it. Neighbours shows Ireland in grey beside the UK, and Sea turns the sea white. Minimal keeps a report quiet and Dark suits a deck with a dark theme.

Slides and files

Set the canvas to 16:9 and download a PNG with Transparent on for a slide with its own background, or use Copy image to paste into PowerPoint, Google Slides or Keynote. The map for PowerPoint page has more. SVG goes to a design tool. For the country on its own, see the editable map of the United Kingdom.