Overview
A geochart is a map of a country, a continent, or a region with areas identified in one of three ways:
- The region mode colors whole regions, such as countries, provinces, or states.
- The markers mode uses circles to designate regions that are scaled according to a value that you specify.
- The text mode labels the regions with identifiers (e.g., "Russia" or "Asia").
A geochart is rendered within the browser using SVG or VML. Note that the geochart is not scrollable or draggable, and it's a line drawing rather than a terrain map; if you want any of that, consider a map visualization instead.
Region GeoCharts
The regions
style fills entire regions (typically
countries) with colors corresponding to the values that you
assign.
<html> <head> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://www.gstatic.com/charts/loader.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript"> google.charts.load('current', { 'packages':['geochart'], }); google.charts.setOnLoadCallback(drawRegionsMap); function drawRegionsMap() { var data = google.visualization.arrayToDataTable([ ['Country', 'Popularity'], ['Germany', 200], ['United States', 300], ['Brazil', 400], ['Canada', 500], ['France', 600], ['RU', 700] ]); var options = {}; var chart = new google.visualization.GeoChart(document.getElementById('regions_div')); chart.draw(data, options); } </script> </head> <body> <div id="regions_div" style="width: 900px; height: 500px;"></div> </body> </html>
Marker GeoCharts
The markers
style renders circles at specified
locations on the geochart, with the color and size that you
specify.
Try hovering over the cluttered markers around Rome,
and a magnifying glass will open to show the markers in more
detail. (The magnifying glass is not supported in Internet
Explorer version 8 or earlier.)
<html> <head> <script type='text/javascript' src='https://www.gstatic.com/charts/loader.js'></script> <script type='text/javascript'> google.charts.load('current', { 'packages': ['geochart'], // Note: Because markers require geocoding, you'll need a mapsApiKey. // See: https://developers.google.com/chart/interactive/docs/basic_load_libs#load-settings 'mapsApiKey': 'AIzaSyD-9tSrke72PouQMnMX-a7eZSW0jkFMBWY' }); google.charts.setOnLoadCallback(drawMarkersMap); function drawMarkersMap() { var data = google.visualization.arrayToDataTable([ ['City', 'Population', 'Area'], ['Rome', 2761477, 1285.31], ['Milan', 1324110, 181.76], ['Naples', 959574, 117.27], ['Turin', 907563, 130.17], ['Palermo', 655875, 158.9], ['Genoa', 607906, 243.60], ['Bologna', 380181, 140.7], ['Florence', 371282, 102.41], ['Fiumicino', 67370, 213.44], ['Anzio', 52192, 43.43], ['Ciampino', 38262, 11] ]); var options = { region: 'IT', displayMode: 'markers', colorAxis: {colors: ['green', 'blue']} }; var chart = new google.visualization.GeoChart(document.getElementById('chart_div')); chart.draw(data, options); }; </script> </head> <body> <div id="chart_div" style="width: 900px; height: 500px;"></div> </body> </html>
Displaying Proportional Markers
Normally, marker geocharts display the smallest marker value as a
minimal point. If you instead want to display proportional marker
values (say, because they're percentages), use
the sizeAxis
option to set minValue
and maxValue
explicitly.
For instance, here's a map of western Europe with populations and areas for three countries: France, Germany, and Poland. The populations are all absolute numbers (e.g., 65 million for France) but the areas are all percentages of the whole: the France marker is colored violet because it's population is middling, but is sized 50 (out of a possible 100) because it contains 50% of the combined area.
In this code, we use sizeAxis
to specify marker sizes
in the range from 0 to 100. We also use a colorAxis
with
RGB values to show the populations as a range of colors from orange to
blue, a spectrum that will work well for users with color vision
deficiencies. Finally, we specify western Europe with
a region
of 155, per the "Content Hierarchy and Codes"
section later in this document.
<html> <head> <script type='text/javascript' src='https://www.gstatic.com/charts/loader.js'></script> <script type='text/javascript'> google.charts.load('current', { 'packages': ['geochart'], // Note: Because markers require geocoding, you'll need a mapsApiKey. // See: https://developers.google.com/chart/interactive/docs/basic_load_libs#load-settings 'mapsApiKey': 'AIzaSyD-9tSrke72PouQMnMX-a7eZSW0jkFMBWY' }); google.charts.setOnLoadCallback(drawMarkersMap); function drawMarkersMap() { var data = google.visualization.arrayToDataTable([ ['Country', 'Population', 'Area Percentage'], ['France', 65700000, 50], ['Germany', 81890000, 27], ['Poland', 38540000, 23] ]); var options = { sizeAxis: { minValue: 0, maxValue: 100 }, region: '155', // Western Europe displayMode: 'markers', colorAxis: {colors: ['#e7711c', '#4374e0']} // orange to blue }; var chart = new google.visualization.GeoChart(document.getElementById('chart_div')); chart.draw(data, options); }; </script> </head> <body> <div id="chart_div" style="width: 900px; height: 500px;"></div> </body> </html>
Text GeoCharts
You can overlay text labels onto a geochart with displayMode:
text
.
var data = google.visualization.arrayToDataTable([ ['Country', 'Popularity'], ['South America', 600], ['Canada', 500], ['France', 600], ['Russia', 700], ['Australia', 600] ]); var options = { displayMode: 'text' };
<html> <head> <script type='text/javascript' src="https://www.gstatic.com/charts/loader.js"></script> <div id="regions_div" style="width: 900px; height: 500px;"></div> <script type="text/javascript"> google.charts.load('current', { 'packages': ['geochart'], // Note: Because this chart requires geocoding, you'll need a mapsApiKey. // See: https://developers.google.com/chart/interactive/docs/basic_load_libs#load-settings 'mapsApiKey': 'AIzaSyD-9tSrke72PouQMnMX-a7eZSW0jkFMBWY' }); google.charts.setOnLoadCallback(drawRegionsMap); function drawRegionsMap() { var data = google.visualization.arrayToDataTable([ ['Country', 'Popularity'], ['South America', 600], ['Canada', 500], ['France', 600], ['Russia', 700], ['Australia', 600] ]); var options = { displayMode: 'text' }; var chart = new google.visualization.GeoChart(document.getElementById('regions_div')); chart.draw(data, options); } </script> </head> <body> <div id="chart_div" style="width: 900px; height: 500px;"></div> </body> </html>
Coloring your chart
There are several options for customizing the colors of GeoCharts:
colorAxis
: the spectrum of colors to use for the regions in the datatable.backgroundColor
: the background color for the chart.datalessRegionColor
: the color to assign to regions with no associated data.defaultColor
: the color to assign to regions in the datatable for which the value is eithernull
or unspecified.
The colorAxis
option is the important one: it
specifies the range of colors for your data values. In
the colorAxis
array, the first element is the color given
to the smallest value in your dataset, and the last element is the
color given to the largest value in your dataset. If you specify more
than two colors, interpolation will occur between them.
In the following chart, we'll use all four
options. The colorAxis
is used to display Africa with the
colors of the pan-African flag, using the latitudes of the countries:
from red in the north, through black, to green in the
south. The backgroundColor
option is used to color the
background a light blue, datalessRegionColor
to color the
non-African countries a light pink, and defaultColor
for
Madagascar.
var options = { region: '002', // Africa colorAxis: {colors: ['#00853f', 'black', '#e31b23']}, backgroundColor: '#81d4fa', datalessRegionColor: '#f8bbd0', defaultColor: '#f5f5f5', };
<html> <head> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://www.gstatic.com/charts/loader.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript"> google.charts.load('current', { 'packages':['geochart'], // Note: Because this chart requires geocoding, you'll need mapsApiKey. // See: https://developers.google.com/chart/interactive/docs/basic_load_libs#load-settings 'mapsApiKey': 'AIzaSyD-9tSrke72PouQMnMX-a7eZSW0jkFMBWY' }); google.charts.setOnLoadCallback(drawRegionsMap); function drawRegionsMap() { var data = google.visualization.arrayToDataTable([ ['Country', 'Latitude'], ['Algeria', 36], ['Angola', -8], ['Benin', 6], ['Botswana', -24], ['Burkina Faso', 12], ['Burundi', -3], ['Cameroon', 3], ['Canary Islands', 28], ['Cape Verde', 15], ['Central African Republic', 4], ['Ceuta', 35], ['Chad', 12], ['Comoros', -12], ['Cote d\'Ivoire', 6], ['Democratic Republic of the Congo', -3], ['Djibouti', 12], ['Egypt', 26], ['Equatorial Guinea', 3], ['Eritrea', 15], ['Ethiopia', 9], ['Gabon', 0], ['Gambia', 13], ['Ghana', 5], ['Guinea', 10], ['Guinea-Bissau', 12], ['Kenya', -1], ['Lesotho', -29], ['Liberia', 6], ['Libya', 32], ['Madagascar', null], ['Madeira', 33], ['Malawi', -14], ['Mali', 12], ['Mauritania', 18], ['Mauritius', -20], ['Mayotte', -13], ['Melilla', 35], ['Morocco', 32], ['Mozambique', -25], ['Namibia', -22], ['Niger', 14], ['Nigeria', 8], ['Republic of the Congo', -1], ['Réunion', -21], ['Rwanda', -2], ['Saint Helena', -16], ['São Tomé and Principe', 0], ['Senegal', 15], ['Seychelles', -5], ['Sierra Leone', 8], ['Somalia', 2], ['Sudan', 15], ['South Africa', -30], ['South Sudan', 5], ['Swaziland', -26], ['Tanzania', -6], ['Togo', 6], ['Tunisia', 34], ['Uganda', 1], ['Western Sahara', 25], ['Zambia', -15], ['Zimbabwe', -18] ]); var options = { region: '002', // Africa colorAxis: {colors: ['#00853f', 'black', '#e31b23']}, backgroundColor: '#81d4fa', datalessRegionColor: '#f8bbd0', defaultColor: '#f5f5f5', }; var chart = new google.visualization.GeoChart(document.getElementById('geochart-colors')); chart.draw(data, options); }; </script> </head> <body> <div id="geochart-colors" style="width: 700px; height: 433px;"></div> </body> </html>
Loading
The google.charts.load
package name is "geochart"
.
Note that you shouldn't copy our mapsApiKey; that won't work. As long as your chart doesn't require geocoding or use nonstandard codes to identify locations, you don't need a mapsApiKey. For more details, see
Load Settings.
google.charts.load('current', { 'packages': ['geochart'], // Note: if your chart requires geocoding or uses nonstandard codes, you'll // need to get a mapsApiKey for your project. The one below won't work. // See: https://developers.google.com/chart/interactive/docs/basic_load_libs#load-settings 'mapsApiKey': 'AIzaSyD-9tSrke72PouQMnMX-a7eZSW0jkFMBWY' });
The geochart visualization class name is google.visualization.GeoChart
.
var visualization = new google.visualization.GeoChart(container);
Data format
The format of the DataTable varies depending on which display mode that you use:
regions
, markers
, or text
.
Regions mode format
The location is entered in one column, plus one optional column as described here:
-
Region location [String, Required] - A region to highlight.
All of following formats are accepted. You can use different formats in different rows:
- A country name as a string (for example, "England"), or an uppercase ISO-3166-1 alpha-2 code or its English text equivalent (for example, "GB" or "United Kingdom").
- An uppercase ISO-3166-2 region code name or its English text equivalent (for example, "US-NJ" or "New Jersey").
- A metropolitan area code. These are three-digit metro codes used to designate various regions; US codes only supported. Note that these are not the same as telephone area codes.
- Any value supported by the
region
property.
-
Region color [Number, Optional] - An optional numeric column used to
assign a color to this region, based on the scale specified in the
colorAxis.colors
property. If this column is not present, all regions will be the same color. If the column is present, null values are not allowed. Values are scaled relative to thesizeAxis.minValue
/sizeAxis.maxValue
values, or to the values specified in thecolorAxis.values
property, if provided.
Markers mode format
The number of columns varies depending on the marker format used, as well as other optional columns.
-
Marker location [Required]
OR
The first column is a specific string address (for example, "1600 Pennsylvania Ave").The first two columns are numeric, where the first column is the latitude, and the second column is the longitude.
Note: Although we recommend ISO 3166 codes to be used for 'regions' mode, 'markers' mode works best with longer names for regions (like Germany, Panama, etc). This is because geocharts, when in 'markers' mode, uses Google Maps for geocoding the locations (converting a string location to a latitude and longitude). This may result in ambiguous locations not getting geocoded as you might expect; such as 'DE' standing for Germany or Delaware, or 'PA' standing for Panama or Pennsylvania.
-
Marker color [Number, Optional] The next column is an optional
numeric column used to assign a color to this marker, based on the scale specified in the
colorAxis.colors
property. If this column is not present, all markers will be the same color. If the column is present, null values are not allowed. Values are scaled relative to each other, or absolutely to values specified in thecolorAxis.values
property. - Marker size [Number, Optional] An optional numeric column used to assign the marker size, relative to the other marker sizes. If this column is not present, the value from the previous column will be used (or default size, if no color column is provided as well). If the column is present, null values are not allowed.
Text mode format
The label is entered in the first column, plus one optional column:
- Text label [String, Required] A specific string address (for example, "1600 Pennsylvania Ave").
- Text size [Number, Optional] The second column is an optional numeric column used to assign the size of the label. If this column is not present, all labels will be the same size.
Configuration options
Name | |
---|---|
backgroundColor |
The background color for the main area of the chart. Can be either a simple HTML color
string, for example: Type: string or object
Default: white
|
backgroundColor.fill |
The chart fill color, as an HTML color string. Type: string
Default: white
|
backgroundColor.stroke |
The color of the chart border, as an HTML color string. Type: string
Default: '#666'
|
backgroundColor.strokeWidth |
The border width, in pixels. Type: number
Default: 0
|
colorAxis |
An object that specifies a mapping between color column values and colors or a gradient scale. To specify properties of this object, you can use object literal notation, as shown here: {minValue: 0, colors: ['#FF0000', '#00FF00']} Type: object
Default: null
|
colorAxis.minValue |
If present, specifies a minimum value for chart color data. Color data values of this value
and lower will be rendered as the first color in the Type: number
Default: Minimum value of color column in chart data
|
colorAxis.maxValue |
If present, specifies a maximum value for chart color data. Color data values of this value
and higher will be rendered as the last color in the Type: number
Default: Maximum value of color column in chart data
|
colorAxis.values |
If present, controls how values are associated with colors. Each value is associated with the
corresponding color in the Type: array of numbers
Default: null
|
colorAxis.colors |
Colors to assign to values in the visualization. An array of strings, where each element is
an HTML color string, for example: Type: array of color strings
Default: null
|
datalessRegionColor |
Color to assign to regions with no associated data. Type: string
Default: '#F5F5F5'
|
defaultColor |
The color to use when for data points in a geochart when the location
(e.g., Type: string
Default: '#267114'
|
displayMode |
Which type of geochart this is. The DataTable format must match the value specified. The following values are supported:
Type: string
Default: 'auto'
|
domain |
Show the geochart as though it were being served from this region. For instance, setting
Type: string
Default: null
|
enableRegionInteractivity |
If true, enable region interactivity, including focus and tool-tip elaboration on mouse
hover, and region selection and firing of The default is true in region mode, and false in marker mode. Type: boolean
Default: automatic
|
forceIFrame |
Draws the chart inside an inline frame. (Note that on IE8, this option is ignored; all IE8 charts are drawn in i-frames.) Type: boolean
Default: false
|
geochartVersion |
The version of the GeoChart border data. Versions Type: number
Default:10
|
height |
Height of the visualization, in pixels. The default height is 347 pixels, unless the
Type: number
Default: auto
|
keepAspectRatio |
If true, the geochart will be drawn at the largest size that can fit inside the chart area
at its natural aspect ratio. If only one of the
If false, the geochart will be stretched to the exact size of the chart as specified by the
Type: boolean
Default: true
|
legend |
An object with members to configure various aspects of the legend, or 'none', if no legend should appear. To specify properties of this object, you can use object literal notation, as shown here: {textStyle: {color: 'blue', fontSize: 16}} Type: Object / 'none'
Default: null
|
legend.numberFormat |
A format string for numeric labels. This is a subset of the
ICU pattern set
.
For instance, Type: string
Default: auto
|
legend.textStyle |
An object that specifies the legend text style. The object has this format: { color: <string>, fontName: <string>, fontSize: <number>, bold: <boolean>, italic: <boolean> }
The Type: object
Default:
{color: 'black', fontName: <global-font-name>, fontSize: <global-font-size>}
|
region |
The area to display on the geochart. (Surrounding areas will be displayed as well.) Can be one of the following:
Type: string
Default: 'world'
|
magnifyingGlass |
An object with members to configure various aspects of the magnifying glass. To specify properties of this object, you can use object literal notation, as shown here: {enable: true, zoomFactor: 7.5} Type: Object
Default:
{enable: true, zoomFactor: 5.0} |
magnifyingGlass.enable |
If true, when the user lingers over a cluttered marker, a magnifiying glass will be opened. Note: this feature is not supported in browsers that do not support SVG, i.e. Internet Explorer version 8 or earlier. Type: boolean
Default: true
|
magnifyingGlass.zoomFactor |
The zoom factor of the magnifying glass. Can be any number greater than 0. Type: number
Default: 5.0
|
markerOpacity |
The opacity of the markers, where 0.0 is fully transparent and 1.0 is fully opaque. Type: number, 0.0–1.0
Default: 1.0
|
regioncoderVersion |
The version of the regioncoder data. Versions Type: number
Default:0
|
resolution |
The resolution of the geochart borders. Choose one of the following values:
Type: string
Default: 'countries'
|
sizeAxis |
An object with members to configure how values are associated with bubble size. To specify properties of this object, you can use object literal notation, as shown here: {minValue: 0, maxSize: 20} Type: object
Default: null
|
sizeAxis.maxSize |
Maximum radius of the largest possible bubble, in pixels. Type: number
Default: 12
|
sizeAxis.maxValue |
The size value (as appears in the chart data) to be mapped to Type: number
Default: Maximum value of size column in chart data
|
sizeAxis.minSize |
Mininum radius of the smallest possible bubble, in pixels. Type: number
Default: 3
|
sizeAxis.minValue |
The size value (as appears in the chart data) to be mapped to Type: number
Default: Minimum value of size column in chart data
|
tooltip |
An object with members to configure various tooltip elements. To specify properties of this object, you can use object literal notation, as shown here: {textStyle: {color: '#FF0000'}, showColorCode: true} Type: object
Default: null
|
tooltip.textStyle |
An object that specifies the tooltip text style. The object has this format: { color: <string>, fontName: <string>, fontSize: <number>, bold: <boolean>, italic: <boolean> }
The Type: object
Default:
{color: 'black', fontName: <global-font-name>, fontSize: <global-font-size>}
|
tooltip.trigger |
The user interaction that causes the tooltip to be displayed:
Type: string
Default: 'focus'
|
width |
Width of the visualization, in pixels. The default width is 556 pixels, unless the
Type: number
Default: auto
|
Continent Hierarchy and Codes
It is possible to show geocharts of continents/sub-continents by setting the region
option to one of the following 3-digit codes. The codes and the hierarchy are based, with some
exceptions, on those developed and maintained by the
United Nations Statistics Division
.
Continent | Sub-Continent | Countries |
---|---|---|
002 - Africa |
015 - Northern Africa |
DZ, EG, EH, LY, MA, SD, SS, TN |
011 - Western Africa |
BF, BJ, CI, CV, GH, GM, GN, GW, LR, ML, MR, NE, NG, SH, SL, SN, TG | |
017 - Middle Africa |
AO, CD, ZR, CF, CG, CM, GA, GQ, ST, TD | |
014 - Eastern Africa |
BI, DJ, ER, ET, KE, KM, MG, MU, MW, MZ, RE, RW, SC, SO, TZ, UG, YT, ZM, ZW | |
018 - Southern Africa |
BW, LS, NA, SZ, ZA | |
150 - Europe |
154 - Northern Europe |
GG, JE, AX, DK, EE, FI, FO, GB, IE, IM, IS, LT, LV, NO, SE, SJ |
155 - Western Europe |
AT, BE, CH, DE, DD, FR, FX, LI, LU, MC, NL | |
151 - Eastern Europe |
BG, BY, CZ, HU, MD, PL, RO, RU, SU, SK, UA | |
039 - Southern Europe |
AD, AL, BA, ES, GI, GR, HR, IT, ME, MK, MT, RS, PT, SI, SM, VA, YU | |
019 - Americas |
021 - Northern America |
BM, CA, GL, PM, US |
029 - Caribbean |
AG, AI, AN, AW, BB, BL, BS, CU, DM, DO, GD, GP, HT, JM, KN, KY, LC, MF, MQ, MS, PR, TC, TT, VC, VG, VI | |
013 - Central America |
BZ, CR, GT, HN, MX, NI, PA, SV | |
005 - South America |
AR, BO, BR, CL, CO, EC, FK, GF, GY, PE, PY, SR, UY, VE | |
142 - Asia |
143 - Central Asia |
TM, TJ, KG, KZ, UZ |
030 - Eastern Asia |
CN, HK, JP, KP, KR, MN, MO, TW | |
034 - Southern Asia |
AF, BD, BT, IN, IR, LK, MV, NP, PK | |
035 - South-Eastern Asia |
BN, ID, KH, LA, MM, BU, MY, PH, SG, TH, TL, TP, VN | |
145 - Western Asia |
AE, AM, AZ, BH, CY, GE, IL, IQ, JO, KW, LB, OM, PS, QA, SA, NT, SY, TR, YE, YD | |
009 - Oceania |
053 - Australia and New Zealand |
AU, NF, NZ |
054 - Melanesia |
FJ, NC, PG, SB, VU | |
057 - Micronesia |
FM, GU, KI, MH, MP, NR, PW | |
061 - Polynesia |
AS, CK, NU, PF, PN, TK, TO, TV, WF, WS |
Methods
Method | |
---|---|
clearChart() |
Clears the chart, and releases all of its allocated resources. Return Type: none
|
draw(data, options) |
Draws the chart. The chart accepts further method calls only after the
Return Type: none
|
getImageURI() |
Returns the chart serialized as an image URI. Call this after the chart is drawn. See Printing PNG Charts. Return Type: string
|
getSelection() |
Returns an array of the selected chart entities.
Selectable entities are regions with an assigned value.
For this chart, only one entity can be selected at any given moment.
Return Type: Array of selection elements
|
setSelection() |
Selects the specified chart entities. Cancels any previous selection.
Selectable entities are regions with an assigned value.
For this chart, only one entity can be selected at a time.
Return Type: none
|
Events
Name | |
---|---|
error |
Fired when an error occurs when attempting to render the chart. Properties: id, message
|
ready |
The chart is ready for external method calls. If you want to interact with the chart, and
call methods after you draw it, you should set up a listener for this event before you
call the Properties: none
|
regionClick |
Called when a region is clicked. This will not be thrown for the specific country assigned in the 'region' option (if a specific country was listed).
Properties:
An object with a single property,
region , that is a string in ISO-3166 format
describing the region clicked.
|
select |
Fired when the user clicks a visual entity. To learn what has been selected, call
Properties: none
|
Data policy
Locations are geocoded by Google Maps. Any data that does not require geocoding is not sent to any server. Please see the Google Maps Terms of Service for more information on their data policy.