How this list was compiled: Items made on 2026-09-26; names, ids and accepted spellings are Natural Earth's. 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; public domain (Natural Earth terms of use: https://www.naturalearthdata.com/about/terms-of-use/)
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 and from Natural Earth 5.1.2, ne_10m_admin_0_countries_lakes (scale 1:10,000,000), https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvkelso/natural-earth-vector/v5.1.2/geojson/ne_10m_admin_0_countries_lakes.geojson, downloaded 2026-09-19. Albers equal-area conic projection, central meridian 85.4°W, standard parallels 42.8°N and 47.1°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; public domain (Natural Earth terms of use: https://www.naturalearthdata.com/about/terms-of-use/)
How it works
This blank map of Michigan shows all 83 counties of Michigan, from Alcona to Wexford, with Lansing, the capital, in Ingham County; with Borders off it prints the plain outline.
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Blank, numbered or named
Blank prints the 83 shapes with nothing written; Numbered puts 1 on Alcona and 83 on Wexford, in alphabetical order; Named prints every name, and Print the answer key gives the list.
Michigan outline map with every county
Michigan is in two pieces, the Lower and Upper Peninsulas. Marquette County, on Lake Superior in the Upper Peninsula, is the largest. Its neighbors, Ohio, Indiana, Wisconsin and Canada, are drawn around it without numbers.
Print Numbered and give one group the 15 counties of the Upper Peninsula, the rest to the others.
Questions and answers
How many counties does Michigan have?
Eighty-three in the Census Bureau count, from Alcona County to Wexford County in alphabetical order.
What county is Lansing in?
Lansing stands in Ingham County, which is number 33 on the numbered sheet. Have students find it first and write Lansing beside it.
Which is the largest county in Michigan?
Marquette County, in the Upper Peninsula on Lake Superior. Wayne County, around Detroit, has the most people.
Which county of Michigan has the most people?
Wayne County, around Detroit, has more people than any other county in Michigan, while the capital, Lansing, is in Ingham County.