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_countrycode,
gisco_db,
gisco_nuts
Examples
data("gisco_countries")
head(gisco_countries)
#> Simple feature collection with 6 features and 5 fields
#> Geometry type: MULTIPOLYGON
#> Dimension: XY
#> Bounding box: xmin: -63.09693 ymin: 17.00297 xmax: 74.88986 ymax: 42.63545
#> Geodetic CRS: WGS 84
#> CNTR_ID CNTR_NAME ISO3_CODE NAME_ENGL FID
#> 1 AE الإمارات العربية المتحدة ARE United Arab Emirates AE
#> 2 AF افغانستان-افغانستان AFG Afghanistan AF
#> 3 AG Antigua and Barbuda ATG Antigua and Barbuda AG
#> 4 AI Anguilla AIA Anguilla AI
#> 5 AL Shqipëria ALB Albania AL
#> 6 AM Հայաստան ARM Armenia AM
#> geometry
#> 1 MULTIPOLYGON (((56.35462 25...
#> 2 MULTIPOLYGON (((74.7055 37....
#> 3 MULTIPOLYGON (((-61.80237 1...
#> 4 MULTIPOLYGON (((-63.05444 1...
#> 5 MULTIPOLYGON (((19.831 42.4...
#> 6 MULTIPOLYGON (((46.45984 39...