A sf object including all countries as provided by
GISCO (2016 version).
Format
A MULTIPOLYGON data frame (resolution: 1:20million, EPSG:4326) object
with 257 rows and 7 variables:
- id
row ID.
- CNTR_NAME
Official country name on local language.
- ISO3_CODE
ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code of each country, as provided by GISCO.
- CNTR_ID
Country ID.
- NAME_ENGL
Country name in English.
- FID
FID.
- geometry
geometry field.
See also
Other dataset:
gisco_coastallines,
gisco_countries_2024,
gisco_countrycode,
gisco_db,
gisco_nuts
Examples
data("gisco_countries")
head(gisco_countries)
#> Simple feature collection with 6 features and 4 fields
#> Geometry type: MULTIPOLYGON
#> Dimension: XY
#> Bounding box: xmin: -63.09693 ymin: 17.00297 xmax: 74.88986 ymax: 42.63545
#> Geodetic CRS: WGS 84
#> # A tibble: 6 × 5
#> CNTR_ID CNTR_NAME ISO3_CODE NAME_ENGL geometry
#> <chr> <chr> <chr> <chr> <MULTIPOLYGON [°]>
#> 1 AE الإمارات العربية المتحدة ARE United A… (((56.26584 25.62472, 56…
#> 2 AF افغانستان-افغانستان AFG Afghanis… (((74.7055 37.38216, 74.…
#> 3 AG Antigua and Barbuda ATG Antigua … (((-61.80237 17.17129, -…
#> 4 AI Anguilla AIA Anguilla (((-63.05444 18.17551, -…
#> 5 AL Shqipëria ALB Albania (((19.73314 42.63545, 19…
#> 6 AM Հայաստան ARM Armenia (((46.45984 39.53191, 46…