ne_countries: Get natural earth world country polygons

In rnaturalearth: World Map Data from Natural Earth

Get natural earth world country polygons

Description

returns world country polygons at a specified scale, or points of tiny_countries

Usage

ne_countries(
  scale = 110,
  type = "countries",
  continent = NULL,
  country = NULL,
  geounit = NULL,
  sovereignty = NULL,
  returnclass = c("sf", "sv")
)

Arguments

scale	The scale of map to return, one of '110', '50', '10' or 'small', 'medium', 'large'.
type	country type, one of 'countries', 'map_units', 'sovereignty', 'tiny_countries'
continent	a character vector of continent names to get countries from.
country	a character vector of country names.
geounit	a character vector of geounit names.
sovereignty	a character vector of sovereignty names.
returnclass	A string determining the spatial object to return. Either "sf" for for simple feature (from 'sf', the default) or "sv" for a 'SpatVector' (from 'terra').

Details

Note that the filename of the requested object will be returned if 'load = FALSE'.

Value

An object of class 'sf' for simple feature (from 'sf', the default) or 'SpatVector' (from 'terra').

See Also

ne_load, pre-downloaded data are available using ne_countries, ne_states. Other geographic data are available in the raster package : getData.

Examples

world <- ne_countries()
africa <- ne_countries(continent = "africa")
france <- ne_countries(country = "france")

plot(world$geometry)
plot(africa$geometry)
plot(france$geometry)

# get as SpatVector
world <- ne_countries(returnclass = "sv")
terra::plot(world)

tiny_countries <- ne_countries(type = "tiny_countries", scale = 50)
plot(tiny_countries)

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