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France by: départements · régions
Map of France by département, one number per département
Also: France map by département · carte des départements · carte de France par département · French departments choropleth · map of France's 101 départements

Example: Population of France's départements, 2025 — Population on 1 January 2025 by département. Nord, Paris and Bouches-du-Rhône lead; Lozère and Creuse are the least populated.
About this template
Data: one row per département with its ISO 3166-2 code (FR-75 for Paris, FR-13 for Bouches-du-Rhône) or its name, and a number. A département with no row stays grey. The frame shows metropolitan France and Corsica; the five overseas départements take their rows but sit outside it. Same design as the other country maps, so they sit side by side.
A choropleth map of the states, provinces or regions of France (ISO 3166-2 codes), each region filled by one number from your data (the "population" column). The view is cropped to longitude -5–9.8 and latitude 41.3–51.2.
A sequential colour scale from pale blue for the smallest values to deep navy blue for the largest; pinned to 100000 to 2500000, so values beyond the ends take the end colour and the colour bar says ≤ and ≥; a gradient colour bar below the map, with its labels underneath; values formatted in compact form (1.2k, 3.4M), 1 decimal; on a white canvas (#ffffff) with near-black text — a light theme; 0.4-unit hairline outlines between regions.
The title and description are left-aligned above the chart. Font: Inter (the default); a source line with a link sits at the bottom, with the chartlink badge in the corner.
Data: 2 columns — department (string, "Département (ISO 3166-2 code or name)"), population (number, "Population, 1 January 2025") — and 101 rows in the example "Population of France's départements, 2025". Regions are named by ISO 3166-2 region codes or region names; a region with no row stays unfilled in grey, and an unknown code fails loudly with the nearest matches. Your data keeps the same column ids and every other setting comes from the template; an agent can change any of them.
Other looks of this template — dark (on a dark canvas): ast_Ojiq96SLgsurLFiflaEb2; buckets (with the values in classes and a swatch legend): ast_jYXWIW8RL1YaBZg4ADWrr; editorial (in the editorial house style — serif type on paper, a green ramp): ast_d80R42s9sjHBYMsGK7ihG; categories (with a text category per region and a swatch legend): ast_ypGJ0TJ9thgKz0yJufCIT; buckets-dark (with the values in classes and a swatch legend, on a dark canvas): ast_rjM7rcM3GiPzP9RpGrBAk; surroundings (with the land around the place drawn in grey): ast_11BmFWW6PqLAIlgfJH0mG; categories-dark (with a text category per region and a swatch legend, on a dark canvas): ast_1z7g3zLw4dSe0ErhH4hq4; buckets-editorial (with the values in classes and a swatch legend, in the editorial house style — serif type on paper, a green ramp): ast_SrLVeuq7BkSJy3UviDXug; dark-surroundings (on a dark canvas, with the land around the place drawn in grey): ast_ZCmZTU66kCMvsie0fN4Z4; buckets-surroundings (with the values in classes and a swatch legend, with the land around the place drawn in grey): ast_6h5c53sYqz95sUjILK4zQ; categories-editorial (with a text category per region and a swatch legend, in the editorial house style — serif type on paper, a green ramp): ast_EMe7KUQBHFcHNfce3BfnF; editorial-surroundings (in the editorial house style — serif type on paper, a green ramp, with the land around the place drawn in grey): ast_QVNG9s0NHHPCs5RM7H2E8; categories-surroundings (with a text category per region and a swatch legend, with the land around the place drawn in grey): ast_5tsTrzHVBSkqyTJJmLbAN; buckets-dark-surroundings (with the values in classes and a swatch legend, on a dark canvas, with the land around the place drawn in grey): ast_PnUUt3CkDRhBj6fsSEvpb; categories-dark-surroundings (with a text category per region and a swatch legend, on a dark canvas, with the land around the place drawn in grey): ast_WDrc8hRbjuWuSs183iYBO; buckets-editorial-surroundings (with the values in classes and a swatch legend, in the editorial house style — serif type on paper, a green ramp, with the land around the place drawn in grey): ast_1GHyNf1fe2PeCSDQUzcO3; categories-editorial-surroundings (with a text category per region and a swatch legend, in the editorial house style — serif type on paper, a green ramp, with the land around the place drawn in grey): ast_jX3py5Q2RTQuhi44iPOEa. On the page, switch with the toggles; an agent passes that id as the template instead.
Use it with your agent
Copy the prompt, paste it into Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any agent with the chartlink MCP server or API, and give it your numbers. It rebuilds this exact design with your data and hands back an embed, a PNG and a page.
The prompt in full
Data this template expects
| column id | type | in the example |
|---|---|---|
| department | string | Département (ISO 3166-2 code or name) |
| population | number | Population, 1 January 2025 |
101 rows in the example. Your data keeps these column ids; everything else about the chart comes from the template.
For agents: the API call
POST https://chartlink.app/api/assets
{
"template": "ast_PN3pcgG8kPKNXC28y8Iuy",
"knobs": {
"theme": "light",
"dataType": "gradient",
"title": {
"text": "Your title"
},
"source": {
"text": "Where the numbers come from"
}
},
"data": {
"columns": [
{
"id": "department",
"type": "string"
},
{
"id": "population",
"type": "number"
}
],
"rows": [
[
"…"
]
]
},
"publish": true
}The recipe (the template's settings)
{
"chart": {
"bounds": [
-5,
41.3,
9.8,
51.2
],
"domain": [
100000,
2500000
],
"format": {
"kind": "number",
"compact": true,
"decimals": 1
},
"outline": {
"width": 0.4
},
"geography": "fr-regions"
},
"title": {
"text": "Population of France's départements, 2025"
},
"preset": "map-light",
"source": {
"url": "https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/demo_r_pjanaggr3/default/table",
"text": "Eurostat, population on 1 January by NUTS region (demo_r_pjanaggr3), 2025"
},
"encoding": {
"value": {
"column": "population"
},
"region": {
"column": "department"
}
},
"description": {
"text": "Population on 1 January 2025 by département. Nord, Paris and Bouches-du-Rhône lead; Lozère and Creuse are the least populated."
}
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