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 80.5°W, standard parallels 37.8°N and 40.1°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
How it works
This blank map of West Virginia shows all 55 counties of West Virginia, from Barbour to Wyoming, with Charleston, the capital, in Kanawha County; with Borders off it prints the plain outline.
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Blank, numbered or named
Blank prints the 55 shapes with nothing written; Numbered puts 1 on Barbour and 55 on Wyoming, in alphabetical order; Named prints every name, and Print the answer key gives the list.
West Virginia on the map
Randolph County, in the mountains, is the largest; Hancock, at the tip of the Northern Panhandle, is the smallest. Its neighbors, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia and Kentucky, are drawn around it without numbers.
West Virginia has two panhandles; ask students to find the Northern and the Eastern one.
Questions and answers
How many counties does West Virginia have?
Fifty-five in the Census Bureau count, from Barbour County to Wyoming County in alphabetical order.
What county is Charleston in?
Charleston stands in Kanawha County, which is number 20 on the numbered sheet. Have students find it first and write Charleston beside it.
Which is the largest county in West Virginia?
Randolph County, in the Allegheny Mountains. Hancock County is the smallest, and Kanawha County, around Charleston, has the most people.
Which county of West Virginia has the most people?
Kanawha County, around Charleston, has more people than any other county in West Virginia, and it holds the capital too.