Excel choropleth map - find/get regions?

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I'm working on an Excel file with municipalities in NL. With the data->data type->geography I can label those municipalities. Next, I can add a value and create a map (image on the left). There is however a snag: one municipality (orange, named Bunnik) is displayed as the village (part of that community) and I can't find any way to change that to the community. So my questions:

  • is there a way to extract the correct regions/region names from a map?
  • for this region you can see the community on the Wikipedia map (and also on the Excel map if you zoom in), is there a way to adjust this?

I tried to dissect the object (by inspecting the XML inside the xlsx file), but fail so far. Does anyone have a clue if my questions are at all achievable? I also tried VBA to check out the Chart object, but can't find anything there either.

Map chart and municipality map

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I hope I'm wrong, but it doesn't seem to have a (simple) solution. When you enter some data that has mutiple possibilities (try 'Utrecht'), you get the question mark (?) that gives you options to choose from.

However, Bunnik doesn't do this, and when you search for Bunnik in the dataselector, it only shows the one. (Sad extra: the added description even says it's a municipality.)