Map featuring the number of sources or the disk tiles (152 fields) in VVV with a 0.005° × 0.005° bin/pixel size. Top, map for all the sources in our combined JHK_s catalogues, 136 million sources. Second row, map for all the stellar sources, 88 million stars. Third row, map for stellar sources for the objects lying in a stripe in the color−color diagram defined by (H − K) × 1.97 + 0.54 ≥ (J − H) ≥ (H − K) × 1.97 + 0.24 and (H − K) ≥ 0.4; this selection should be dominated by disk red giants with high extinction. Bottom, same as before, but for (H − K) ≤ 0.4; the population selected in this starcount map should be dominated by red-giants and some main sequence stars with low extinction.