Explore every one of the 254 Texas counties on a single interactive map. Search by name or county seat, switch between population, area, and regional layers, and dive into editorially-researched profiles for each county.
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Built from public-domain U.S. Census boundary files and editorially-curated demographic data — engineered for cartographers, students, journalists, real estate analysts, and curious Texans.
Pan, zoom, search, and switch between borders, population, area, and regional layers. Works on mobile and desktop.
Population, area, county seat, neighboring counties, year established, and a built-in mini-map for every Texas county.
Download the full Texas county map as a clean SVG or print directly from your browser — perfect for classrooms.
Population, area, and regional choropleth visualizations highlight patterns across the Lone Star State.
Filter the directory by West Texas, the Panhandle, the Gulf Coast, North Texas, East Texas, and more.
Boundary geometry from U.S. Census TIGER files. Demographic figures sourced from the most recent decennial census.
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From the high plains of the Panhandle to the brush country of South Texas, the Lone Star State spans eight distinct geographic regions.
Editorial guides
Brewster, Pecos, Hudspeth and more — the giants of West Texas.
Read guideCompact counties like Rockwall, Glasscock, and Loving — and why size doesn't track population.
Read guideA complete alphabetical reference to the 254 county seats of Texas.
Read guidePanhandle, North, East, Central, West, South, Gulf Coast, and the Big Bend.
Read guideFree PDF / SVG maps for classrooms, presentations, and offline reference.
Read guideWhere our boundary geometry and population figures come from — and how often we update.
Read guideFrom 23 Mexican municipios in 1836 to today's 254 counties — the political evolution of Texas.
Read guideOutline-only printable map with no labels. Perfect for classrooms and quizzes.
Read guideAll 254 county seats labeled, with population filters for major cities.
Read guideSortable table of every county by population, area, and density — with per-county detail pages.
Read guideFAQ
Texas has 254 counties — more than any other U.S. state. This map covers all of them, with detailed profiles for each.
Brewster County is the largest by land area (over 6,000 sq mi), while Harris County (Houston) is the most populous, with more than 4.7 million residents.
Rockwall County is the smallest by land area at about 149 square miles. Loving County is the least populous, with fewer than 100 residents.
Each Texas county is governed by a commissioners court and has a designated county seat. Counties are administrative subdivisions used for elections, courts, taxation, and public records.
All county boundary geometry is derived from public-domain U.S. Census Bureau TIGER cartographic files. Population data reflects the most recent decennial census.
Yes. Every map on this site can be downloaded as a clean SVG or printed directly from your browser. Visit the Printable Maps page for ready-to-use versions.
Austin, the state capital, is the county seat of Travis County in Central Texas. Parts of the Austin metro extend into Williamson, Hays, Bastrop, and Caldwell counties.
The City of Dallas sits primarily in Dallas County, but it also extends into Collin, Denton, Kaufman, and Rockwall counties — making the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex span multiple counties.
Houston is the county seat of Harris County, the most populous county in Texas with over 4.7 million residents. Portions of Houston also reach into Fort Bend and Montgomery counties.
San Antonio is the county seat of Bexar County in South Central Texas, the fourth-most-populous county in the state.
Fourteen Texas counties border Mexico along the Rio Grande: El Paso, Hudspeth, Culberson, Jeff Davis, Presidio, Brewster, Terrell, Val Verde, Kinney, Maverick, Webb, Zapata, Starr, and Hidalgo, with Cameron at the southern tip.
Texas is commonly divided into eight cultural-geographic regions: the Panhandle, North Texas, East Texas, Central Texas, West Texas, South Texas, the Gulf Coast, and the Big Bend.
Yes — the interactive map, printable downloads, and county profile pages are free for personal, educational, and journalistic use. Boundary data is U.S. Census public domain.
Kenedy County was the most recent Texas county to be organized, in 1921. No new county has been created since.
About this Texas county map
Texas is the second-largest U.S. state by both area and population, and it is divided into 254 counties — more than any other state in the country. Understanding how those counties fit together is essential for anyone working with Texas geography: students preparing for a STAAR or social-studies exam, real-estate analysts comparing markets, journalists fact-checking a story, GIS professionals overlaying data, and travelers planning a road trip across the Lone Star State. Our Texas county map brings every one of those 254 counties into a single, fast, fully interactive canvas.
Unlike static images you'll find elsewhere, this map is rendered from U.S. Census TIGER cartographic boundary files — the same public-domain dataset used by federal, state, and academic GIS systems. Every county polygon is mathematically precise, so when you zoom into the Panhandle, the South Plains, the Hill Country, the Piney Woods of East Texas, or the brush country of the Rio Grande Valley, the borders stay sharp and the relationships between counties remain accurate. Population, area, and county-seat data are sourced from the most recent decennial U.S. Census and reviewed by editors before publication.
Whether you searched for a "Texas county map", a "Texas map with counties labeled", a "blank Texas county map" for the classroom, or a "Texas county map with cities", this site is structured so you reach the right answer in two clicks or fewer. Use the search box to jump to any county, switch layers to compare population or area, open a printable version, or dive into a long-form county profile with neighboring counties, demographics, and history.
How to use this map
Four simple actions cover 95% of what people come here to do. Each step is optimized for desktop, tablet, and mobile.
Type a county name (Travis), a city (Austin), or a county seat. Live results appear as you type.
Toggle Population, Area, or Region to recolor the map and surface patterns instantly.
Open the full profile: seat, population, area, neighbors, region, year established, and mini-map.
Save the current map as a clean SVG or print a high-contrast, ad-free version for handouts.
Texas counties at a glance
More than any other U.S. state. California is next with 58.
≈ 6,193 sq mi — bigger than Connecticut and Rhode Island combined.
≈ 149 sq mi — Texas's most compact county, just east of Dallas.
Home to Houston, with 4.7M+ residents.
Fewer than 100 residents — the least-populous county in the U.S.
Texas's original counties were organized from Mexican municipios in 1836.
The most recent of Texas's 254 counties to be organized.
Roughly 2× the average for U.S. counties nationally.
Every Texas county has a designated county seat with a courthouse.
Who this is for
From 4th-grade classrooms to enterprise GIS teams, the same dataset powers every view.
Print blank outline maps for quizzes, label all 254 counties for STAAR / social-studies units, and reference county seats in seconds.
Compare population density, area, and regional growth corridors across Harris, Travis, Collin, Denton, Williamson, and Fort Bend counties.
Verify county names, seats, and demographics with cited data sourced from U.S. Census TIGER files and the latest decennial census.
Understand which county a Texas city is in — Austin is in Travis County, Dallas is in Dallas County, Houston is in Harris County — and what neighbors it.
Look up jurisdiction by county for courts, elections, tax assessors, and public records workflows.
Plan routes by region — the Big Bend, the Hill Country, the Gulf Coast, the Piney Woods — and discover counties along the way.
Open the full interactive Texas county map — search any county, switch layers, and drill into the data.