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 75°W, standard parallels 41.2°N and 44.3°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 New York shows all 62 counties of New York, from Albany to Yates, with Albany, the capital, in Albany County; with Borders off it prints the plain outline.
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Blank, numbered or named
Blank prints the 62 shapes with nothing written; Numbered puts 1 on Albany and 62 on Yates, in alphabetical order; Named prints every name, and Print the answer key gives the list.
New York outline map with every county
New York City is five counties, one for each borough, and four of them carry rings. St. Lawrence County, on the Canadian border, is the largest. Its neighbors, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Canada, are drawn around it without numbers.
Manhattan is New York County, Brooklyn is Kings, Staten Island is Richmond: ask students to match borough to county.
Questions and answers
How many counties does New York have?
Sixty-two in the Census Bureau count, from Albany County to Yates County in alphabetical order.
What county is Albany in?
Albany stands in Albany County, which is number 1 on the numbered sheet. Have students find it first and write Albany beside it.
Which counties make up New York City?
Five: New York (Manhattan), Kings (Brooklyn), Queens, Bronx and Richmond (Staten Island), one county for each borough.
Which county of New York has the most people?
Kings County, around Brooklyn, has more people than any other county in New York, while the capital, Albany, is in Albany County.