# Extrude individual countries from shapefile world map
**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/extrude-individual-countries-from-shapefile-world-map/11662
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [March 19, 2023, 11:04pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/extrude-individual-countries-from-shapefile-world-map/11662 "2023-03-19T23:04:05Z")
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### Author:  [@\_Marco](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/_Marco)
#### Post date: [March 19, 2023, 11:04pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/extrude-individual-countries-from-shapefile-world-map/11662/1 "2023-03-19T23:04:05Z")
Dear Members,
i have a shapefile, a world map, containing a bit more than 200 countries and their political boundaries.
From that, I would like to “extrude” user-defined, individual countries, by assigning a scalar that **would control both** : extrusion height and color.
My idea was using python to loop over each country, extracting the coordinates, and create a vtk file, by assigning z coordinate(s). However, I suspect there could be an easier method.
Any feedback, remarks, suggestions or hints?
Thank you
Marco
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2023, 6:55am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/extrude-individual-countries-from-shapefile-world-map/11662/2 "2023-03-20T06:55:03Z")
Looks like this is a multiblock with one block per contry ?
If theat is so, an ExtractBlock will do the work trivially.
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### Author:  [@\_Marco](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/_Marco)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2023, 11:04am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/extrude-individual-countries-from-shapefile-world-map/11662/3 "2023-03-20T11:04:18Z")
Thank you so much! Worked great!
