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

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

Usage

get_municipalities(year = 2024, scale = 4500, codes_as_character = FALSE)

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

sf object

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