Map Maker

The selector above covers the four most requested maps, but the catalog behind this page reaches almost any geography. The workflow never changes: pick a base map, click your regions, and download or publish the result.

US states and counties. The US map is loaded above by default: all fifty states plus DC, with a labels toggle. For county-level work, Studio has a county map for every one of the 50 states, plus a full United States county map with around 3,100 counties. You can open the US counties map in Studio and start at the county level right away.

World countries. Switch the selector to the world map to make a map of about 200 countries: global presence, travels, rankings. Continent maps of Africa, Asia, the Americas, and Oceania, each divided by country, are in the catalog too.

Europe. Already on this page: pick Europe countries in the selector, around 45 countries with a labels toggle. A common base for EU membership maps and market coverage.

India. Also in the selector: every Indian state and union territory is clickable, labels included. A frequent pick for school projects and election maps.

Single countries. Want France by department, Germany by state, or Brazil by state? Studio covers major countries divided into their first-level administrative units. When one country is the whole story, a dedicated country map beats zooming into a world map every time.

Political and election maps. The Political palette above carries the familiar red and blue scheme with lean and tilt shades in between, so a hand-built political map of states or countries takes minutes on this page. When the map should follow real results, import them into Studio and generate it from data instead.

More than 200 base maps work this way, all with real administrative boundaries and the same download and publish options.

To turn a spreadsheet into a map, paste your data into Ultimaps Studio. Each row is matched to a map region by name or code, numeric columns become a color scale across regions, and text columns become categories. Studio generates the legend and tooltips from the same columns.

Numeric data produces a choropleth: values like population, sales, or growth are mapped to a sequential or diverging palette, with break methods (equal intervals, quantiles, Jenks natural breaks) you can adjust or leave on the suggested defaults. Text data produces a category map: every distinct value gets its own swatch and legend entry, which is exactly what you want for party, team, or status maps.

You can import several columns at once. One column drives the map, and the rest stay available for tooltips and popups, so hovering a region shows its exact values. When the numbers change, update the sheet and re-import instead of rebuilding the map by hand.

If you searched for a map chart maker or a map generator, this is that workflow without the custom mapping software overhead: no GIS files, no code, just a spreadsheet and a browser. Import works from CSV and Excel files, Google Sheets, Notion, or plain pasted cells, and it is available on Studio's free plan.

Every map you make here can leave the page as a file. Three formats cover almost every destination:

PNG is the everyday format: it drops into slides, documents, and posts, and the on-page export is rendered locally in your browser, so it stays sharp on retina screens. Choose SVG when a designer takes the map further, since every region stays a real editable shape rather than pixels. Choose PDF when the map goes to print and has to scale to any page size without losing a line. Studio's free plan covers PNG at standard resolution with the attribution mark. SVG, PDF, and ultra-high-resolution PNG without the mark come with the Pro plan, or as a one-time export when you only need a single map, no subscription required.

Plenty of tools will generate a static picture of a map. Ultimaps is built for the steps after that. Maps you create in Studio export as true vector files (SVG and PDF, not just screenshots), so they survive print, design handoff, and resizing. They can be published as live interactive maps with hover tooltips, click popups, and zoom, then embedded on any website and updated without touching the embed code. And they can carry real data: spreadsheet columns become color scales, categories, and tooltip values instead of hand-typed labels.

The on-page map maker above is the fast lane into that workflow: instant, free, and good enough for many maps on its own. Use it to sketch the idea, and use Studio when the map needs to be interactive, data-driven, or brand-styled. If what you actually want is to shade regions with colors and nothing more, color a map is the same widget framed for exactly that job.

Most map tools fall into three groups: a maker with the tool on the page (this one), static map-image generators, and desktop GIS software. All three can produce a custom map. They differ in speed, depth, and what happens to the map afterwards.

Desktop GIS is the right call for spatial analysis: geoprocessing, projections, huge datasets. Static generators are fine when any picture will do. This page sits in the middle deliberately: you get a finished custom map in minutes, and the same map can grow into a data-driven, interactive, brand-styled version in Studio instead of hitting a ceiling.

The maps on this page come from the Ultimaps vector map catalog, the same base maps used in Studio. All four are built from Natural Earth, a public-domain geographic dataset, and simplified so they load fast and respond instantly. Everything you make stays on your device: region selections, legend labels, and the PNG export are handled locally in your browser, and nothing is uploaded to a server. Downloads are free to use, including commercially. The free PNG includes a small ultimaps.com attribution mark, and a Pro plan or one-time export in Studio removes it.

Last updated: August 17, 2026