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How to Determine Which Region a Country Belongs to on a Tableau Map


Published: 29 Dec 2021
Last Modified Date: 30 Dec 2021

Question

How to determine which region a country belongs to on a tableau map.

Environment

Tableau Desktop

Answer

To create the visualization follow the steps below and open the attached workbook in Tableau Desktop.
  1. Create a data source following way.
  2.        User-added image
  3. Launch Tableau Desktop and connect to the data source you created.
  4. Drag and drop [ Longitude(generated) ] to Columns and [ Latitude(generated) ] to Rows.
  5. Drag and drop [ Country ] to Color.
  6. Change the mark type to map.
  7. Zoom in on the target region and use color to determine which countries belong to the chosen region.   User-added image
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