world: World country polygons

In spData: Datasets for Spatial Analysis

World country polygons

Description

The object loaded is a sf object containing a world map data from Natural Earth with a few variables from World Bank

Usage

world

Format

Formal class 'sf' [package "sf"]; the data contains a data.frame with 177 obs. of 11 variables:

• iso_a2: character vector of ISO 2 character country codes

• name_long: character vector of country names

• continent: character vector of continent names

• region_un: character vector of region names

• subregion: character vector of subregion names

• type: character vector of type names

• area_km2: integer vector of area values

• pop: integer vector of population in 2014

• lifeExp: integer vector of life expectancy at birth in 2014

• gdpPercap: integer vector of per-capita GDP in 2014

• geom: sfc_MULTIPOLYGON

The object is in geographical coordinates using the WGS84 datum.

Source

https://www.naturalearthdata.com/

https://data.worldbank.org/

See Also

See the rnaturalearth package: https://cran.r-project.org/package=rnaturalearth

Examples

if (requireNamespace("sf", quietly = TRUE)) {
  library(sf)
  data(world)
  # or
  world <- st_read(system.file("shapes/world.gpkg", package="spData"))

  plot(world)
}

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