Highlight one specific country in Folium

Question

I have a map drawn by folium as follow:

m = folium.Map(location = [51.1657,10.4515], zoom_start=6, min_zoom = 5, max_zoom = 7)

How can

Answer 1

As long as you have a json file containing the geometry (coordinates) for the country of interest, you can add a GeoJson layer:

import folium
import json

with open('datasets/world-countries.json') as handle:
    country_geo = json.loads(handle.read())

for i in country_geo['features']:
    if i['properties']['name'] == 'Germany':
        country = i
        break

m = folium.Map(location = [51.1657,10.4515],
               zoom_start=6,
               min_zoom = 5,
               max_zoom = 7)


folium.GeoJson(country,
               name='germany').add_to(m)

folium.LayerControl().add_to(m)

m

and you get: