After checking the heat map of current Lync MVPs by Fabrizio Voipe, I was curious about the current geographical distribution of the Exchange MVPs. MVP awards are given to individuals by Microsoft in recognition of their contributions to the technical community.

There are little public statistics available, so I had to resort to information from the MVP site. Note that MVPs may decide not to be visible here, but looking at why people get an MVP award, I figured going in hiding isn’t one of their characteristics, thus expecting the number of non-listed MVPs to be negligible.

A little playing around with Excel and Power Map gave me the following geographical map. Not surprisingly, the major suppliers of Exchange MVPs are the United States and China.

For reference, I have included the mapped numbers in the table below. Please let me know if you want to share corrections or have any updates.

Update (26apr): Corrected 1 entry (UK -> Ireland)