ne_countries: Countries of naturalearth

In necountries: Countries of the World

Countries of naturalearth

Description

A sf containing 299 countries (in a large sense), either the main parts of sovereign countries, parts or dependencies

Format

a sf containing

• iso2: two letters identifier of the country,

• iso3: two letters identifier of the country,

• type: either "main" (the main part of a sovereign country, the whole country for most of them), "part", "dependency" or "indeterminate"

• country: the name of the entity,

• sovereign: the sovereign country the entity belongs to,

• capital: the name of the capital of the country (NA for parts and dependencies)

• status: United Nations' status

• en, fr, de, es, it: the name of the country in different languages

• region: the name of the region (United Nations' definition)

• subregion: the name of the subregion (United Nations' definition)

• wbregion: the name of the region (World Bank's definition)

• pop: the population of the entity,

• gdp: currently undocumented

• economy: economic group

• income: income groupe

• polygon a geometry column containing the administrative borders

• point a geometry column containing the point coordinate of the capital

necountries documentation built on April 4, 2025, 1:43 a.m.