# How to put the legend outside of the plot area in Plots?

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**Created:** [December 18, 2016, 5:42pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-put-the-legend-outside-of-the-plot-area-in-plots/1027 "2016-12-18T17:42:42Z")\
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In PyPlot, we can use bbox\_to\_anchor option. What is an equivalent in Plots?