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geobounds: Download Administrative Boundary Data from 'geoBoundaries'

Description

Provides tools to download individual country boundaries and global composite boundaries from 'geoBoundaries' https://www.geoboundaries.org/ across multiple administrative ('ADM') levels. Returns boundaries as 'sf' objects for mapping and spatial analysis. Runfola et al. (2020) \Sexpr[results=rd]{tools:::Rd_expr_doi("10.1371/journal.pone.0231866")} describe the underlying database.

Author(s)

Maintainer: Diego Hernangómez [e-mail] (ORCID) [copyright holder]

Authors:

• Diego Hernangómez [e-mail] (ORCID) [copyright holder]

Other contributors:

• William & Mary geoLab (ROR) (for the geoBoundaries project) [data contributor]

Source

geoBoundaries API.

References

Runfola et al. (2020) "geoBoundaries: A global database of political administrative boundaries." PLOS ONE, 15(4), 1–9. \Sexpr[results=rd]{tools:::Rd_expr_doi("10.1371/journal.pone.0231866")}.

See Also

Useful links:

• https://dieghernan.github.io/geobounds/

• https://github.com/dieghernan/geobounds

• Report bugs at https://github.com/dieghernan/geobounds/issues

geobounds documentation built on Sept. 6, 2026, 1:06 a.m.