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Get Finnish municipality (multi)polygons for different years and/or scales.

Source: R/get_municipalities.R
get_municipalities.Rd

Thin wrapper around Finnish zip code areas provided by Statistics Finland.

Usage

get_municipalities(year = 2025, scale = 4500, codes_as_character = FALSE)

Arguments

year

A numeric for year of the administrative borders. Available are 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025.

scale

A scale or resolution of the shape. Two options: 1000 equals 1:1 000 000 and 4500 equals 1:4 500 000.

codes_as_character

A logical determining if the region codes should be returned as strings of equal width as originally provided by Statistics Finland instead of integers.

Value

sf object

Author

Markus Kainu markus.kainu@kela.fi, Joona Lehtomäki joona.lehtomaki@iki.fi

Examples

 if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
 f <- get_municipalities(year=2016, scale = 4500)
 plot(f)
 } # }