Congressional Districts of the 108th Congress

The Congressional Cartography Program of the Library of Congress supports the cartographic, geographic, and GIS requests and inquiries from members and committees of the U.S. Congress and Congressional Research Service. To streamline the production process, this map was developed as a part of the program's template approach to map production. This template of the United States and territories was designed to facilitate quick turnaround of presentation-quality maps for the U.S. Congress and Congressional Research Service. Thematic layers, based on case-by-case congressional requests, can be easily integrated into this predesigned template.

The incorporation of insets reflects the need by analysts and congressional staff to have a presentation-quality map that delineates major metropolitan congressional districts at large scales. The cartographic design is inspired by and reminiscent of steel-engraved production methods of the late 1830s and reflects layout and design by Henry Schenk Tanner (1786–1858), S. Augustus Mitchell (1792–1868), and David H. Burr (1803–1875), geographer to the House of Representatives of the United States.