Nuvi 200 Map

Because it's a cheapy version of the Nuvi. According to Garmin, Puerto Rico is included, but not Canada. Just buy the maps afterwards as needed, I guess.

According to Garmin's website the nuvi 200 "comes with preloaded maps for the continental U.S., Hawaii and Puerto Rico or regional coverage in other areas".

There are two ways to answer the question.

1. It comes with less coverage because the internal storage is not sufficient to hold more.

2. It is set at a lower price range than other current models that have more map coverage.

So basically, you get what you pay for.

I agree to a an extent.

My i5 was way cheaper than the Nuvi 200 and it has all the map coverage. Since Canada is just another state ....the map size should not be an issue.

Just kidding about Canada by the way.

So what if you buy one in Canada, is it totally useless as is?

The nuvi 200 comes with the 48 contiguous states, PR and HI. You can add Canada, and Alaska on an SD card with MapSource. In fact, with a 1GB SD card you can probably add all of Europe also.

The 200 is an excellent entry level GPSr and you can add the total coverage of the higher priced nuvis later on if needed.