# USA County Choropleth Maps in Python **URL:** \ **Category:** šŸ“Š Plotly Python\ **Created:** [February 24, 2018, 11:06pm UTC](https://community.plotly.com/t/usa-county-choropleth-maps-in-python/8578 "2018-02-24T23:06:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![drissguessous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/96bed5/32.png) [@drissguessous](https://community.plotly.com/u/drissguessous)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2018, 11:06pm UTC](https://community.plotly.com/t/usa-county-choropleth-maps-in-python/8578/1 "2018-02-24T23:06:35Z")
I have made sure that the required packages have been installed. Yet every time I get this same error. ImportError Traceback (most recent call last) in () 9 values = range(len(fips)) 10 ā€”\> 11 fig = ff.create\_choropleth(fips=fips, values=values) 12 py.iplot(fig, filename=ā€˜choropleth of some cali counties - full usa scopeā€™) /anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/plotly/figure\_factory/\_county\_choropleth.py in create\_choropleth(fips, values, scope, binning\_endpoints, colorscale, order, simplify\_county, simplify\_state, asp, offline\_mode, show\_hover, show\_state\_data, state\_outline, county\_outline, centroid\_marker, round\_legend\_values, exponent\_format, legend\_title, \*\*layout\_options) 563 if not gp or not shapefile or not shapely: 564 raise ImportError( ā€“\> 565 "geopandas, pyshp and shapely must be installed for this figure " 566 "factory.\n\nRun the following commands in the terminal to " 567 ā€œensure that the correct versions of the modules are installed:\nā€ ImportError: geopandas, pyshp and shapely must be installed for this figure factory. Run the following commands in the terminal to ensure that the correct versions of the modules are installed: `pip install geopandas==0.3.0` `pip install pyshp==1.2.10` `pip install shapely==1.6.3` ---
**Author:** ![jack](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex024/user_avatar/community.plotly.com/jack/32/11_2.png) [@jack](https://community.plotly.com/u/jack)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2018, 4:12am UTC](https://community.plotly.com/t/usa-county-choropleth-maps-in-python/8578/2 "2018-02-26T04:12:57Z")
@drissguessous Can you please try installing these packages with `pip3` instead of `pip`? If that does not work, can you please try installing these packages using `conda`? If using Jupyter notebook, please restart the kernel after installing the packages. ---
**Author:** ![pranu\_kvs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/67e7ee/32.png) [@pranu\_kvs](https://community.plotly.com/u/pranu_kvs)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2018, 3:45pm UTC](https://community.plotly.com/t/usa-county-choropleth-maps-in-python/8578/3 "2018-03-05T15:45:08Z")
If you have Anaconda, do not use pip, i installed with pip and got the same error, installing it with conda solved it. conda install plotly conda install geopandas Run the above two commands and it should work. ---
**Author:** ![Adam](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex024/user_avatar/community.plotly.com/adam/32/23418_2.png) [@Adam](https://community.plotly.com/u/Adam)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2018, 1:38pm UTC](https://community.plotly.com/t/usa-county-choropleth-maps-in-python/8578/4 "2018-06-05T13:38:58Z")
Thank you for looking into this and posting a solution. I will append to the error message to clarify this for other users. ---
**Author:** ![JustinG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b487fb/32.png) [@JustinG](https://community.plotly.com/u/JustinG)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2018, 6:59pm UTC](https://community.plotly.com/t/usa-county-choropleth-maps-in-python/8578/5 "2018-08-27T18:59:18Z")
Just letting people know, that these steps donā€™t in fact correct the issue. I have built a virtual env from scratch and I am experiencing the same issue with modules. I have tried conda, and pip, and pip3. None have worked ---
**Author:** ![pes3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/87869e/32.png) [@pes3](https://community.plotly.com/u/pes3)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2018, 3:04am UTC](https://community.plotly.com/t/usa-county-choropleth-maps-in-python/8578/6 "2018-09-27T03:04:48Z")
Hi Justin, I am having the same issue - you ever find a solution? ---
**Author:** ![asp1020](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@asp1020](https://community.plotly.com/u/asp1020)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2019, 8:10pm UTC](https://community.plotly.com/t/usa-county-choropleth-maps-in-python/8578/7 "2019-03-11T20:10:38Z")
I was able to solve this problem by installing pyshp using conda (in addition to plotly and geopandas): ``` conda install pyshp ``` Then following this example: [https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1T3WgAhyJZBddpAK5z3K3d2laUhH\_zgKq#scrollTo=y3Wgapvd4TLc](https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1T3WgAhyJZBddpAK5z3K3d2laUhH_zgKq#scrollTo=y3Wgapvd4TLc) ---
**Author:** ![emily](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8c91f0/32.png) [@emily](https://community.plotly.com/u/emily)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2022, 11:28pm UTC](https://community.plotly.com/t/usa-county-choropleth-maps-in-python/8578/8 "2022-04-22T23:28:49Z")
I tried thousands of solutions. This finally worked!