How to Highlight and Fill a Country on an Animated Map

Fill or pulse a country or region

Paints the inside of a country, region or city in a colour of your choice. Use it when the point is the AREA — who controls what, where a language is spoken, which states voted which way — rather than just where a place sits on the map.

How to

1. Add the action and pick the place in the New land window; the shape comes from the map's own border data.
2. Click Edit land style, open the Animation tab and pick how the fill arrives: Fade in, Pulse, or a reveal front (Sweep, Radial, Inward, Dissolve).
3. In the Fill tab of the same panel, set Colour and Opacity.
4. Switch on Stroke in the Stroke tab when you want an edge around the fill.
5. Use one action per country when you compare several: each carries its own colour and its own timing.

See also

• Border — Border outlines the same shape instead of filling it.
• Shade — Shade darkens everything OUTSIDE the shape instead of colouring the inside.

Last checked 2026-10-03