🐕 Dog Breeds Map

About Dog Breeds Map

Dog Breeds Map plots 471 dog breeds, each with its own page, plus 17 varieties that share a page with their parent breed. 462 have a freely licensed photo.

Sources and licences

How pins are placed

A breed's country of origin is a whole country, so most pins sit at a representative point inside that country, not at an exact place. Breeds that share a country are spread out in a small spiral so they don't stack on top of each other. Where Wikidata gives England, Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland as well as the United Kingdom, we keep the more specific home nation. For breeds from the UK and Ireland, where the Wikipedia article names a specific area of origin, the pin is placed there and the sentence is quoted on the breed page:

Types

Breeds are sorted into broad types from the first sentence of their Wikipedia article (for example “a breed of scent hound”), then from the Fédération Cynologique Internationale (FCI) group of the breed standard linked in the article, then from Wikidata. Breeds whose sources give no clear type are listed under “Other types”. Each breed has one type.

Sizes

Size classes are our own grouping, from the infobox weight (midpoint of the male range where given): small under 10 kg, medium 10–25 kg, large 25–45 kg, giant over 45 kg. Where no weight is given we use height (under 36 cm, 36–56 cm, 56–70 cm, over 70 cm). Breeds without either are “size not stated”.

Marker sizes

The 60 most-viewed breeds on English Wikipedia over the last 12 months get large photo markers, the next 140 get smaller markers that become photos as you zoom in, and the rest are small dots. Every breed is always shown: nothing is clustered or hidden.

Accuracy

The data comes from community-edited sources and can contain errors or disputed origins. If you spot a mistake, the best fix is to correct the Wikipedia article or Wikidata item; this site is rebuilt from them.