---
title: backgroundColor
framework: mapkit
role: symbol
role_heading: Instance Property
path: mapkit/mapfeature/backgroundcolor
---

# backgroundColor

The background color associated with the map feature.

## Declaration

```swift
var backgroundColor: Color? { get }
```

## Discussion

Discussion If this feature doesn’t have a background color this property is nil.

## See Also

### Accessing the feature’s properties

- [kind](mapkit/mapfeature/kind.md)
- [MapFeature.FeatureKind](mapkit/mapfeature/featurekind.md)
- [coordinate](mapkit/mapfeature/coordinate.md)
- [title](mapkit/mapfeature/title.md)
- [image](mapkit/mapfeature/image.md)
- [pointOfInterestCategory](mapkit/mapfeature/pointofinterestcategory.md)