Just as numbers serve as important quantitative data to understand a description of something better, labels that describe an object as qualitative data are vital to understanding something. Nominal area choropleth maps use colors and shading to represent these labels in order to convey the message the cartographer has about a geographic location. The map shown here is the provinces and regions in China today. Different regions are described with colors and the provinces can be easily associated with their region due to their coloring. Fujian, for instance, is considered to be in the Eastern region as it is colored green whereas Gansu is considered a part of the Western region as it is colored yellow.
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