US, Canada and Mexico Map with States and Provinces

The US, Canada and Mexico map has 96 regions. The United States accounts for 51: its 50 states plus the District of Columbia, which is part of no state. Canada accounts for 13: 10 provinces and 3 territories (Yukon, the Northwest Territories and Nunavut). Mexico accounts for 32 federal entities, which are 31 states and Mexico City. Puerto Rico, Guam and the other U.S. overseas territories are not among the 96. They appear on the United States with Outlying Territories map.

Mexico has 31 states, and Mexico City is not one of them. Together they make 32 federal entities. Until 2016 the capital was the Distrito Federal, a federal district. A constitutional reform published on 29 January 2016 renamed it Ciudad de México and allowed it to adopt its own constitution, which took effect in 2018. Mexico City is divided into 16 alcaldías instead of municipalities, and INEGI's 2020 Census counted 9,209,944 residents. On this map it appears under its older name, Distrito Federal, with the code MX-DIF. Its current ISO 3166-2 code is MX-CMX. The State of Mexico, a separate entity, is titled "México" on the map.

Four U.S. states border Mexico: California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas. On the Mexican side, six states border the United States: Baja California, Sonora, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León and Tamaulipas. The International Boundary and Water Commission measures the border at 1,954 miles (3,145 km). The Texas section follows the Rio Grande, called the Río Bravo del Norte in Mexico, and Texas borders four Mexican states: Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León and Tamaulipas. The busiest twin-city pairs on the border include San Diego and Tijuana, and El Paso and Ciudad Juárez. Texas had 29,145,505 residents in the 2020 U.S. Census, second only to California among the four U.S. border states.

Thirteen U.S. states border Canada: Alaska, Washington, Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, Minnesota, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine. The Ohio and Pennsylvania sections run through Lake Erie, and much of the Michigan section follows the Great Lakes and connecting rivers. Alaska borders Yukon and British Columbia. Eight Canadian provinces and territories are on the border: Yukon, British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Québec and New Brunswick. The border runs about 5,525 miles (8,891 km), making it the longest international border in the world, counting its water sections. If you only need the two northern countries, use the United States and Canada map.

No U.S. state borders both Canada and Mexico. The 13 states on the Canadian border and the 4 states on the Mexican border are separate groups, with other states between them. On the Pacific coast, for example, Oregon lies between Washington, which borders British Columbia, and California, which borders Baja California. Alaska borders Canada alone, and Texas borders Mexico alone. As a result, a trip over land from Canada to Mexico always crosses at least three U.S. states: one on the northern border, one or more in the interior and one on the southern border. Canada and Mexico share no border with each other.

Nunavut is the largest of the 96 regions by total area, at 2,093,190 km² (808,185 sq mi), according to Statistics Canada. Alaska is the largest U.S. state at 665,384 square miles (1,723,337 km²) (U.S. Census Bureau, 2010), and Québec is the largest Canadian province at 1,542,056 km² (Statistics Canada). California is the most populous region, with 39,538,223 residents in the 2020 U.S. Census. Los Angeles is its largest city. The State of Mexico (16,992,418, INEGI 2020 Census) and Ontario (14,223,942, 2021 Census) have the most residents in their own countries. Nunavut has the fewest residents of all 96, with 36,858 in 2021.

To combine data from the United States, Canada and Mexico in one map, key every row by its ISO 3166-2 code, such as US-TX, CA-QC or MX-NLE. Codes are unique across the three countries, while names such as California and Baja California are easy to confuse. This map lists Mexico City as Distrito Federal (MX-DIF), and newer sources use MX-CMX. Convert U.S. dollars, Canadian dollars and Mexican pesos to one currency at a single date's rate. Use per-capita values or rates, because the District of Columbia covers 177 km² and Nunavut more than 2 million km². Note the census years too: 2020 for the U.S. and Mexico, 2021 for Canada.

The US, Canada and Mexico map covers exactly the three members of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), so you can use it to show trade figures by state or province. USMCA entered into force on 1 July 2020 and replaced NAFTA, which had applied since 1 January 1994. Canada calls the agreement CUSMA (Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement), and Mexico calls it T-MEC (Tratado entre México, Estados Unidos y Canadá). The map itself shows political divisions and has no trade data. You add figures such as exports per state, border-crossing counts or trade with each partner country yourself.

A custom US, Canada and Mexico map starts from the interactive map at the top of this page. The editor is free and does not require an account. For a category map, pick a color for each region, for example one color per country or one for the ten states along the U.S.-Mexico border. For a data map, supply one number per region, and the editor colors the 96 regions on a scale with a legend. Ports of entry such as Laredo can go on as pins. Free exports are standard PNG files with a small Ultimaps credit. High-resolution PNG, SVG and PDF require Pro.