gisco_countries: World countries 'POLYGON' object

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World countries POLYGON object

Description

A sf object including all countries as provided by GISCO (2016 version).

Format

A MULTIPOLYGON data frame (resolution: 1:20million, EPSG:4326) object with 257 rows and 7 variables:

id

row ID

CNTR_NAME

Official country name on local language

ISO3_CODE

ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code of each country, as provided by GISCO

CNTR_ID

Country ID

NAME_ENGL

Country name in English

FID

FID

geometry

geometry field

Source

CNTR_RG_20M_2016_4326.geojson file.

See Also

gisco_get_countries()

Other dataset: gisco_coastallines, gisco_countrycode, gisco_nuts, tgs00026

Examples

cntry <- gisco_countries
GBR <- subset(cntry, ISO3_CODE == "GBR")

library(ggplot2)

ggplot(GBR) +
  geom_sf(color = "red3", fill = "blue4") +
  theme_void()

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