australia: Geospatial data of the Australian state and territory...

australiaR Documentation

Geospatial data of the Australian state and territory administrative boundaries.

Description

Excludes external territories.

Usage

australia

states

Format

An object of class sfc_MULTIPOLYGON (inherits from sfc) of length 1.

An object of class sf (inherits from tbl_df, tbl, data.frame) with 8 rows and 9 columns.

Details

The geometries have been simplified with a tolerance of 5 km to reduce the level of detail.

Functions

  • australia: External boundaries of Australia as a multipolygon.

  • states: State and internal territory boundaries of Australia.

Source

Australian Bureau of Statistics. "Australian Statistical Geography Standard (ASGS) Edition 3." ABS, Jul2021-Jun2026, https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/standards/australian-statistical-geography-standard-asgs-edition-3/jul2021-jun2026, accessed 10 November 2022.

The original dataset is published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence, © Commonwealth of Australia 2021.

Examples

library(ggplot2)
ggplot(states) + geom_sf(aes(fill = STE_NAME21))

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