Plotting a geopandas dataframe using plotly

I have a geopandas dataframe, which consists of the region name(District), the geometry column, and the amount column. My goal is to plot a choropleth map using the method mentioned below https://plotly.com/python/choropleth-maps/#using-geopandas-data-frames

Here’s a snippet of my dataframe

I also checked that my columns were in the right format/type.

And here's the code I used to plot the map

fig = px.choropleth(merged,

                   geojson=merged.geometry,

                   locations=merged.index,

                   color="Amount")

fig.update_geos(fitbounds="locations", visible=False)

fig.show()

It produced the below figure

which is obviously not the right figure. For some reasons, it doesn't show the map, instead it shows a line and when I zoom in, I am able to see the map but it has lines running through it. Like this

Has anyone ran into a similar problem? If so how were you able to resolve it?

The Plotly version I am using is 4.7.0. I have tried upgrading to a most recent version but it still didn’t work.

Any help is greatly appreciated. Please find my code and the data on my github.

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