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 97.1°W, standard parallels 37.5°N and 39.5°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 blank map of Kansas shows all 105 counties of Kansas, from Allen to Wyandotte, with Topeka, the capital, in Shawnee County; with Borders off it prints the plain outline.
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Blank, numbered or named
Blank prints the 105 shapes with nothing written; Numbered puts 1 on Allen and 105 on Wyandotte, in alphabetical order; Named prints every name, and Print the answer key gives the list.
Kansas on the map
Butler County, east of Wichita, is the largest county; Wyandotte, around Kansas City, Kansas, is the smallest. Its neighbors, Nebraska, Missouri, Oklahoma and Colorado, are drawn around it without numbers.
Most Kansas counties are rectangles in rows; print Numbered and work row by row from north to south.
Questions and answers
How many counties does Kansas have?
One hundred and five in the Census Bureau count, from Allen County to Wyandotte County in alphabetical order; with so many, the numbered sheet is busy.
What county is Topeka in?
Topeka stands in Shawnee County, which is number 89 on the numbered sheet. Have students find it first and write Topeka beside it.
Which is the smallest county in Kansas?
Wyandotte County, which is joined with Kansas City, Kansas. Butler County, in the south-central part of the state, is the largest.
Which county of Kansas has the most people?
Johnson County, around Overland Park and Olathe, has more people than any other county in Kansas, while the capital, Topeka, is in Shawnee County.