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Find your country on a Map
2 min readOct 20, 2024
import plotly.express as px
country = input("Enter the country name: ")
data = {
'Country': [country],
'Values': [100] }
fig = px.choropleth(
data,
locations='Country',
locationmode='country names',
color='Values',
color_continuous_scale='Inferno',
title=f'Country Map Highlighting {country}')
fig.show()
Here’s an explanation of the provided code:
1. import plotly.express as px
- Plotly Express: A high-level Python visualization library that is part of the Plotly ecosystem. It allows for easy creation of interactive plots.
px
: This alias is used to access functions from the Plotly Express module conveniently.
2. country = input("Enter the country name: ")
- This line prompts the user to enter a country name (e.g., “India”, “United States”).
3. data = {'Country': [country], 'Values': [100]}
- A dictionary is created with two keys:
Country
(holding the user-input country) andValues
(holding the value100
). This serves as data to be used for generating the map.
4. fig = px.choropleth(...)
- This line creates a choropleth map, a type of map where…