# US states region maps
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/us-states-region-maps/182716
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [May 24, 2019, 7:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/us-states-region-maps/182716 "2019-05-24T19:30:33Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@Ambarish\_Chitnis](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ambarish_Chitnis)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2019, 7:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/us-states-region-maps/182716/1 "2019-05-24T19:30:33Z")
I want to know how I can define the regions for all the 50 US states. I am trying to build a simple region map showing the population of the 50 US states.
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2019, 7:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/us-states-region-maps/182716/2 "2019-05-24T19:36:35Z")
What version are you on? There's a US states vector map in 7.X that you can use out of the box.
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### Author:  [@Ambarish\_Chitnis](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ambarish_Chitnis)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2019, 7:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/us-states-region-maps/182716/3 "2019-05-24T19:37:39Z")
I am on Kibana 7.1. Please can you let me know how to use the US states vector map.
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### Author:  [@Ambarish\_Chitnis](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ambarish_Chitnis)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2019, 7:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/us-states-region-maps/182716/4 "2019-05-24T19:45:08Z")
Specifically, please could you send me a sample JSON document for one state (with state and population as features) and the mapping?
Assuming this is my index:
{"index":{"\_index":"population","\_id":0}}
{state:"WA", population:"20000"}
How would I define the mapping?
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2019, 11:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/us-states-region-maps/182716/5 "2019-05-27T23:55:23Z")
What you have looks good. You should just need to have the `state` mapped as a string, then you can use that as the join field in the map vis.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2019, 12:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/us-states-region-maps/182716/6 "2019-06-25T00:05:38Z")
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