{"id":21333,"date":"2018-06-26T10:06:25","date_gmt":"2018-06-26T10:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.highcharts.com\/blog\/?p=21333"},"modified":"2026-01-12T09:56:33","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T09:56:33","slug":"hexagonal-map-of-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.highcharts.com\/blog\/integration\/hexagonal-map-of-usa\/","title":{"rendered":"Hexagonal map of USA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There are many ways to represent a country geographically, such as a geographic map and a hexagonal map.<br \/>\nThe main benefit of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.highcharts.com\/blog\/tutorials\/visualize-country-size\/\" href=\"_blank\">Hexagonal map<\/a> is that all areas or hex cells have the same size; the users are no longer confused or distracted by the size of any area; they simply focus on the message, e.g., the number of the states by region in this demo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"demo-container\"><iframe height=\"600\" style=\"width: 100%;\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"Hexagonal map of USA\" src=\"https:\/\/codepen.io\/mushigh\/embed\/abyqaqw?default-tab=result\" frameborder=\"no\" loading=\"lazy\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><br \/>\n  See the Pen <a href=\"https:\/\/codepen.io\/mushigh\/pen\/abyqaqw\"><br \/>\n  Hexagonal map of USA<\/a> by mustapha mekhatria (<a href=\"https:\/\/codepen.io\/mushigh\">@mushigh<\/a>)<br \/>\n  on <a href=\"https:\/\/codepen.io\">CodePen<\/a>.<br \/>\n<\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Check out more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.highcharts.com\/maps\/demo\">Highcharts maps demos<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; There are many ways to represent a country geographically, such as a geographic map and a hexagonal map. The main benefit of a Hexagonal map is that all areas or hex cells have the same size; the users are no longer confused or distracted by the size of any area; they simply focus on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":21424,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"meta_title":"","meta_description":"","hc_selected_options":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1105],"tags":[1094,1031,818],"coauthors":[699],"class_list":["post-21333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-integration","tag-highcharts-core","tag-javascript","tag-nodejs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highcharts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highcharts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highcharts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highcharts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highcharts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21333"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.highcharts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29139,"href":"https:\/\/www.highcharts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21333\/revisions\/29139"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highcharts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highcharts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highcharts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highcharts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21333"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highcharts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=21333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}