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United Kingdom Counties & Unitary Authorities map preview in the editorial theme

Preview shows the map slide in Editorial, Mono, Slate.

Every template has the same eight slides

  1. Cover — the map's name and theme, on a slide you can put your own title over.
  2. Editing guide — ungroup, recolour, regroup, in three steps and without plugins.
  3. The map — every area at one flat colour, the blank starting point for your own shading.
  4. Reference map — all 218 counties and unitary authorities named, each carrying its GSS code, so nothing has to be looked up.
  5. Data map — five shaded classes and a legend, ready for your own figures instead of the sample ones.
  6. Spotlight — the largest few by area emphasised and the rest muted, for a single clear point.
  7. Working with the data — a data hand-off table.
  8. Source and licence — the boundary release, the publisher and the licence, printed on the slide so the deck carries its own provenance.

Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0; contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

$19.99 · all three themes Counties

Editable United Kingdom Counties & Unitary Authorities Map Template

All 218 counties and unitary authorities across the four nations, each one a separate editable shape with its own GSS code.

How to edit

Download a free sample deck — England Integrated Care Boards, all three themes, no email and no card.

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218 counties and unitary authoritiesGeography
218Editable shapes
8Slides
3Themes
About this template

Every county and unitary authority in the United Kingdom — 218 areas. In England this mixes two-tier counties with unitary authorities, which is how the ONS publishes the level; Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are wholly unitary here.

Typical use: Local public services, coverage analysis, and comparisons between areas of similar size.

Purchase terms

  • $19.99, one-time payment. There is no subscription and no further charge.
  • Immediate delivery. The download link is issued as soon as payment is confirmed. It keeps working, and a fresh one can be fetched at any time from the find-my-download page.
  • 14 days refunds. A refund may be requested within 14 days for any reason, whether or not the file has been downloaded. See the refund policy.
  • Commercial use. Use in any number of presentations, commercial or internal. Resale or redistribution of the file is not permitted.
  • Credit. The Open Government Licence requires the two credit lines wherever the boundaries are reproduced. Both are already on the source slide of every deck.
  • Payment. Handled by Waffo Pancake as merchant of record, which also collects any applicable tax.
Areas included

218 in total, every one a separate named shape.

The full list is on the reference slide of the file, and in the Selection Pane of any slide that shows the map.

Specification
Price$19.99, one-time payment, no subscription
FormatPowerPoint .pptx, opens natively in Keynote
File size1.05 MB
Join fieldGSS code (the ONS identifier for each area)
Area figuresArea, km², measured from the boundary geometry
Boundary sourceOffice for National Statistics, Open Government Licence v3.0
ProjectionAlbers equal-area conic, fitted to the UK
CoordinatesWGS84 longitude / latitude
LicenceCommercial use permitted; resale of the files is not
RefundsFull refund within 14 days for any reason, and at any time if the file is defective or not as described
Questions

United Kingdom Counties & Unitary Authorities — questions before you buy

How is this different from the map chart built into PowerPoint?
The map chart built into Microsoft 365 and Office 2019 or later looks places up through Bing Maps and stops at country level for the UK, so it cannot draw local authority districts, council areas or wards. These maps are ordinary PowerPoint shapes built from the ONS boundary files: nothing is looked up, every level below country is covered, and any area can be recoloured, relabelled or deleted on its own.
What does this county map show?
This is the county map of the UK. 218 counties and unitary authorities — 153 in England, 32 in Scotland, 22 in Wales and 11 in Northern Ireland. Every one is a separate shape that can be filled, labelled or deleted on its own, and the same boundaries are used on the map, the labelled reference slide and the data slide, so nothing shifts between them.
Is it a county or a unitary authority?
Both, and the difference matters when you join data. A county council covers a wide area and has district councils beneath it — 21 of the areas here are in that position. A unitary authority, a metropolitan district and a London borough each run every local service themselves, with nothing below them. The ONS publishes all of them in one release, which is why a county map of the UK holds more areas than there are counties.
What kind of data can I show on this map?
Anything published at county level: council tax, adult social care, school places, public health. Classify your figures into five bands and recolour by class — the data slide is already a five-step legend you can keep or replace — and the editing guide covers recolouring in bulk, because 218 shapes is more than anyone wants to click through one at a time.
How do I link my own data to the map?
Each shape is named after its area and carries its ONS GSS code, the identifier statistics are published against. The map uses 7 code families — E06 for the 63 unitary authorities, E08 for the 36 metropolitan districts, E09 for the 33 London boroughs, S12 for the 32 council areas, W06 for the 22 principal areas, E10 for the 21 county councils and N09 for the 11 local government districts. Join on the code rather than on names: authority names repeat across the UK, get respelt by different publishers, and change when councils reorganise, while the code stays with the area.
Which boundary release is this based on?
Office for National Statistics boundaries, December 2025 release, generalised and clipped to the coastline. They are published under the Open Government Licence, which permits commercial use and requires two credit lines wherever the material is reproduced — both are already printed on the source slide of every deck.
Is there a wider or a more detailed map of this area?
The United Kingdom Countries map is the wider view. The district map goes one level finer — United Kingdom Local Authority Districts.
Can these be used commercially?
Yes. The boundaries are published under the Open Government Licence, which permits commercial use, and presentations may be commercial or internal with no limit on their number. The template files themselves may not be resold or redistributed.
Do I need GIS software or a shapefile?
No. The ONS boundary files have already been projected, simplified and converted into native PowerPoint shapes, so there is nothing to install and no file conversion to do. Editing the map is the same as editing any other shape.
Is there a blank version of the map?
There is no separate blank product, because the map slide in every template is already a single flat colour — which is what a blank map usually means. For a fully fillable version, ungroup the map and set every shape to one pale fill with a hairline outline. The labelled reference map is the one that carries the names.
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