ne_states: Get natural earth world state (admin level 1) polygons

In rnaturalearth: World Map Data from Natural Earth

Get natural earth world state (admin level 1) polygons

Description

returns state polygons (administrative level 1) for specified countries

Usage

ne_states(
  country = NULL,
  geounit = NULL,
  iso_a2 = NULL,
  spdf = NULL,
  returnclass = c("sp", "sf")
)

Arguments

country	a character vector of country names.
geounit	a character vector of geounit names.
iso_a2	a character vector of iso_a2 country codes
spdf	an optional alternative states map
returnclass	'sp' default or 'sf' for Simple Features

Value

SpatialPolygonsDataFrame or sf

Examples

# comparing using country and geounit to filter
if (requireNamespace("rnaturalearthhires")) {
  spdf_france_country <- ne_states(country = "france")
  spdf_france_geounit <- ne_states(geounit = "france")

  if (require(sp)) {
    plot(spdf_france_country)
    plot(spdf_france_geounit)

    plot(ne_states(country = "united kingdom"))
    plot(ne_states(geounit = "england"))
  }
}

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