为每个区域填色
颜色深浅代表数值。适合比率、占比和人均指标——这些数字已经消除了面积和人口规模的影响。
打开模板全部地图
Minnesota County Map Maker
A blank Minnesota county map to print, and a builder to fill it with your own data. Download the free outline of all 87 counties, or upload a spreadsheet and publish an interactive Minnesota map you can embed anywhere.
Minnesota 空白地图，免费下载
全部 87 个counties，线条干净的轮廓图。可打印、可填色、可放进文档——无需注册，也无需署名。
任何用途均可免费使用，包括商用与课堂。由编辑器所用的同一套边界数据生成。
下载 SVGMinnesota 地图能看出什么
Minnesota divides into 87 counties, and the state reports most of what it measures at that level — unemployment, health outcomes, school enrolment, crop yields, turnout, broadband coverage. The counties are a genuinely useful unit here because they are drawn small enough in the settled south and east to separate one farm economy from the next, while the north is carved into a handful of very large counties that hold forest, iron and water more than they hold people. That mismatch between area and population is the whole story of the state's geography, and a county map shows it in one picture.
Minnesota 的三种画法
数值是比率时给区域填色，是计数时用大小不同的标记。把这两者用反，是数据地图最常见的误导方式。
什么时候该画 Minnesota 地图
Your data is reported by Minnesota county
MDH health indicators, DEED labour and wage figures, Department of Education enrolment data, USDA crop statistics and Secretary of State election returns are all published by county.
You are showing a rate or a share
Unemployment rate, uninsured share, share of households with broadband, share of the vote, median household income. Rates are already adjusted for population, which is what shading a region needs.
You want to show metro against greater Minnesota
The seven-county Twin Cities metro holds over half the state in a corner of the map. A county map makes that concentration an argument the reader can see rather than a statistic they have to hold in their head.
You need a blank map to print or fill in
Classroom exercises, extension and county-fair materials, planning workshops, colour-by-hand sessions. The free outline above prints cleanly at any size.
什么时候不该画 Minnesota 地图
You are mapping totals rather than rates
Shade by a raw count and Hennepin County wins every time — roughly one Minnesotan in five lives there, in one of the smaller shapes on the map. Use symbols or bubbles sized by the count instead.
Your unit is a city or a school district
Minneapolis and St. Paul are two cities in two different counties inside one metro, and Minnesota's school districts cross county lines freely. Mapping either onto counties will misplace the thing you are describing.
The comparison is with Wisconsin or the Dakotas
If the point is how Minnesota sits against its neighbours, use the US county map so the reader can see across the state line instead of stopping at it.
Only a few counties have data
Rural county samples are small, and suppressed cells are common in health data. A map with sixty grey shapes and twenty-seven coloured ones is a worse bar chart — rank the counties you do have.
如何制作 Minnesota 地图
从表格到发布上线，一步一步来。
Download the blank map, or start from the template
The free outline above is a plain SVG of all 87 counties — print it, or drop it into a document. To build with data, open the PlotSet Minnesota (counties) template, which comes with sample data already bound.
Prepare a county column and a value column
One row per county: the county name or its five-digit FIPS code in the first column, your number in the second. FIPS codes for Minnesota all begin 27.
Upload or connect your data
Import a CSV or Excel file, paste from a spreadsheet, or connect a Google Sheet so the map can be refreshed when the source updates.
Pick the style that fits the measure
Shade the counties for a rate, or switch to symbols or bubbles for a count. Same geography, same data, different encoding.
Choose a colour scale on purpose
Sequential for a low-to-high measure, diverging only when a real midpoint exists — the state average, zero change, a 50 per cent line. Four to six steps read more precisely than a smooth gradient.
Publish, embed or export
Publish for a live interactive map with a tooltip on every county, or export a PNG, SVG or PDF for a report or a deck.
从已加载示例数据的 Minnesota 模板开始，再换成你自己的数据。
打开模板让 Minnesota 数据正确匹配
地点列应该长什么样，以及去哪里找现成能对上的数据。
All 87 counties, spelled as the state spells them
The ones that break a join are the French and the doubled names: Lac qui Parle, Le Sueur, Mille Lacs, Otter Tail, Yellow Medicine, Blue Earth, Big Stone. Watch the pairs too — Lake and Lake of the Woods, Red Lake and Clearwater, are four separate counties that people routinely collapse into two.
St. Louis County is in Minnesota as well as Missouri
Minnesota's St. Louis County runs from Duluth to the Canadian border and is the largest county by area east of the Mississippi. Any national dataset joined on name alone will happily hand its rows to Missouri.
Minnesota FIPS codes start at 27
27001 is Aitkin, 27173 is Yellow Medicine. Store the column as text so the codes keep their shape, and remember the county part is odd-numbered, not sequential.
The metro is seven counties, not one
Anoka, Carver, Dakota, Hennepin, Ramsey, Scott and Washington. Metro-level figures spread across all seven, and any map that treats 'the Twin Cities' as a single unit is drawing a region the data does not have.
Where to get Minnesota county data
The Minnesota Department of Health, DEED, the Department of Education, the Office of the Secretary of State and the State Demographic Center all publish county tables, as does the Census Bureau's ACS.
Minnesota 地图上的常见错误
Shading counts instead of rates
It produces a population map every time: a dark cluster around the Twin Cities and pale everywhere else. Anything that grows simply because more people live there should be a sized symbol, not a shade.
Letting the northern counties dominate the picture
St. Louis, Koochiching, Itasca, Beltrami and Cass cover an enormous share of the map and hold a small share of the people. On a shaded map they carry visual weight that their populations do not justify — say so in the caption.
Joining on names without checking spelling
'Lac qui Parle' and 'Lac Qui Parle' are different strings, and a silent mismatch leaves a blank county rather than an error. Join on FIPS where you can.
Suppressed data drawn as zero
Health and education releases blank out small counts for privacy. Import those cells as empty rather than as 0, or the sparsest counties will read as the healthiest ones on the map.
Using a rainbow colour scale
A sequence of hues has no natural order, so readers cannot tell high from low without checking the legend on every county. Use one hue, light to dark.
Minnesota 地图常见问题
Yes. The outline above is a free SVG of all 87 Minnesota counties — right-click to save it, print it, or drop it into a worksheet or document. No account needed.
把你的数据放到 Minnesota 地图上
上传表格，几分钟内发布一张交互式地图——免费，无需信用卡。