US Map Templates for PowerPoint

A US map template for PowerPoint is a slide in which all 50 states and Washington, DC are drawn as separate vector shapes rather than one image. You can recolor any state, group states into regions or sales territories, add labels, and resize the map without losing sharpness.

Which US map style do you need?

How do you highlight states or build regions on a US map slide?

• Click any state. It selects as its own shape.
• Hold Shift and click to add more states to the selection.
• Open Shape Format > Shape Fill and apply one color to the whole selection.
• To make a reusable territory, group it: select the states, right-click > Group. One click then selects the territory.
• For the small Northeast states (RI, CT, DE, NJ, MD), label with two-letter abbreviations and leader lines from Insert > Shapes rather than trying to fit full names inside the shapes.

How do you make a sales territory map of the US?

Assign each territory a color, Shift-click its states, and apply the fill in one step. Group each territory so it moves and recolors as a unit. Add a legend mapping colors to reps or regions, and put each territory’s number, accounts, quota, or coverage, in a callout beside the map rather than inside small states.

If a territory splits a state, draw the boundary yourself with Insert > Shapes > Freeform over the state map. These templates work at state level, so a mid-state line is a manual overlay, not a selectable shape.

Alaska and Hawaii: insets or to scale?

Use insets, boxed and bottom-left, the way audiences expect. A to-scale placement makes the map unusable on a slide: Alaska alone is about a fifth the size of the lower 48 and pushes everything else into a corner. The trade-off is that insets understate Alaska’s size, which only matters if area itself is your data. If you’re not mapping Alaska or Hawaii at all, say “contiguous US” on the slide and drop the insets. This is clearer than leaving them gray.

Looking for a single state?

Every state in these templates isolates in two clicks: click the state, copy it to a new slide, and scale it up. This creates a clean single-state map with the same editable shape, label, and fill. No separate template is needed for Texas, California, Florida, or any other state.
Looking for American flag backgrounds rather than maps? Explore our American flag PowerPoint backgrounds.