How this list was compiled: Items made on 2026-09-26. Licence: public domain (work of the United States government, 17 U.S.C. 105): https://www2.census.gov/geo/pdfs/maps-data/data/tiger/tgrshp2023/TGRSHP2023_TechDoc_Ch1.pdf
The drawing: Drawn for this site from U.S. Census Bureau 2023 cartographic boundary file cb_2023_us_county_5m (scale 1:5,000,000), https://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/GENZ2023/shp/cb_2023_us_county_5m.zip, downloaded 2026-09-19. Surrounding land from U.S. Census Bureau 2023 cartographic boundary file cb_2023_us_state_5m (scale 1:5,000,000), https://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/GENZ2023/shp/cb_2023_us_state_5m.zip, downloaded 2026-09-19. Albers equal-area conic projection, central meridian 86.9°W, standard parallels 31°N and 34.2°N. Outlines simplified; small islands are left out. Licence: public domain (work of the United States government, 17 U.S.C. 105): https://www2.census.gov/geo/pdfs/maps-data/data/tiger/tgrshp2023/TGRSHP2023_TechDoc_Ch1.pdf
How it works
This Alabama outline map shows all 67 counties of Alabama, from Autauga to Winston, with Montgomery, the capital, in Montgomery County; with Borders off it prints the plain outline.
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Blank, numbered or named
Blank prints the 67 shapes with nothing written; Numbered puts 1 on Autauga and 67 on Winston, in alphabetical order; Named prints every name, and Print the answer key gives the list.
Alabama on the map
Baldwin County, on the Gulf coast around Mobile Bay, is the largest county. Its neighbors, Mississippi, Tennessee, Georgia and Florida, are drawn around it without numbers.
Start at the Gulf: Mobile and Baldwin counties, in the south-west corner, are the only two on the coast.
Questions and answers
How many counties does Alabama have?
Sixty-seven in the Census Bureau count, from Autauga County to Winston County in alphabetical order.
What county is Montgomery in?
Montgomery stands in Montgomery County, which is number 51 on the numbered sheet. Have students find it first and write Montgomery beside it.
Which is the largest county in Alabama?
Baldwin County, on the east side of Mobile Bay. It reaches the Gulf of Mexico at Gulf Shores and Orange Beach. Mobile County, west of the bay, is the only other coastal county.
Which county of Alabama has the most people?
Jefferson County, around Birmingham, has more people than any other county in Alabama, while the capital, Montgomery, is in Montgomery County.