Alabama

Alaska

Arizona

Arkansas

California

Colorado

Connecticut

Delaware

Florida

Georgia

Hawaii

Idaho

Illinois

Indiana

Iowa

Kansas

Kentucky

Louisiana

Maine

Maryland

Massachusetts

Michigan

Minnesota

Mississippi

Missouri

Montana

Nebraska

Nevada

New Hampshire

New Jersey

New Mexico

New York

North Carolina

North Dakota

Ohio

Oklahoma

Oregon

Pennsylvania

Rhode Island

South Carolina

South Dakota

Tennessee

Texas

Utah

Vermont

Virginia

Washington

West Virginia

Wisconsin

Wyoming

None

Gun deaths in the United States, are marked by shades of pink. Darker pink indicates more deaths, with states like California and Texas. Lighter pink indicates fewer deaths, with Northern (Montana and Wyoming) and Western U.S. (Oregon) including Alaska.

US / CA States

North America

CDC National Center for Health Statistics

Gun Deaths (US)

Deaths per state

Yukon

Northwest Territories

Nunavut

Nova Scotia

Saskatchewan

New Brunswick

British Columbia

Newfoundland and Labrador

Alberta

Québec

Manitoba

Ontario

A world map shows national parks highlighted in green.

Locations of terrestrial and marine protected areas

National Parks

In North America, national parks are scattered across northern and western Canada, Canada’s Arctic islands, and eastern Canada’s Great Lakes region, Saint Lawrence River Valley, and Maritime Provinces. In the United States, larger national parks are mainly in Alaska and the western states, with a few sizeable parks in the East, including Florida and the Appalachians. Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean have smaller national parks. Most of northeastern Greenland is a national park. In South America, national parks are concentrated in the Amazon basin and in the Patagonian Andes and Tierra del Fuego in the south. In Europe, parks are widely distributed from Iceland to Russia, including the UK, Norway, the Alps, Spain, and southeastern Europe. North Africa and the Sahara have few parks, with some in Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Western Sahara, and coastal Mauritania. Sub-Saharan Africa has parks scattered across West, East, and southern Africa, with the largest parks in East Africa along the Great Rift Valley to southern Africa. Madagascar has small parks. Southwest and Central Asia have few parks, with some in Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, and Tajikistan. South Asia’s parks run along the Himalayas from Pakistan to Bhutan, with small parks in India and Sri Lanka. In Southeast Asia, Thailand and Indonesia have numerous parks, while other countries have fewer. East Asia shows parks in South Korea, Japan, and Taiwan, but none in China, North Korea, or Mongolia. Oceania features numerous parks in Australia and New Zealand, mainly on New Zealand’s South Island.

	Gun Deaths (US)			National Parks
	Class	Rank	Deaths per state	National Parks
Alabama		13	1,320
Arkansas		26	698
Connecticut		38	248
Delaware		43	158
Georgia		4	2,200
Idaho		36	309
Illinois		5	2,000
Indiana		15	1,250
Iowa		34	364
Kansas		31	503
Louisiana		14	1,310
Maine		42	178
Maryland		22	915
Massachusetts		39	247
Minnesota		30	573
Mississippi		20	962
Missouri		11	1,410
Nebraska		40	200
New Hampshire		47	123
New Jersey		32	475
New Mexico		29	578
New York		18	1,080
Ohio		6	1,910
Oklahoma		24	836
Pennsylvania		7	1,910
Rhode Island		50	64
Vermont		48	83
West Virginia		35	319
Wisconsin		25	793
Alaska		41	182	0.595%
Arizona		12	1,370	1.65%
Utah		33	450	0.414%
Yukon				2.50%
Northwest Territories				0.558%
Florida		3	3,140	2.68%
Washington		23	896	2.07%
Wyoming		44	155	3.27%
Nunavut				0.646%
Montana		37	280	1.09%
North Dakota		46	128	0.137%
Kentucky		21	947	0.152%
Nova Scotia				0.681%
Virginia		16	1,250	0.738%
Saskatchewan				0.603%
Texas		1	4,610	0.422%
Hawaii		49	71	7.64%
North Carolina		8	1,840	0.871%
Oregon		27	670	0.283%
New Brunswick				0.277%
British Columbia				0.112%
Newfoundland and Labrador				2.69%
South Carolina		17	1,140	0.118%
Michigan		10	1,540	0.404%
Alberta				6.07%
Colorado		19	1,060	0.316%
Nevada		28	633	0.156%
Québec				1.85%
Manitoba				1.76%
Tennessee		9	1,570	1.01%
Ontario				0.169%
California		2	3,580	0.115%
South Dakota		45	128	0.211%

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Gun Deaths (US)