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Provincial and territorial boundaries of Canada, 2001

Description

An list-like object with components x and y specifying the provincial and territorial boundaries of Canada during the 2001 census. The coordinates are in longitude/latitude coordinates. The data was derived from the shapefiles provided by Statistics Canada. The object also has a component range specifying the range of the data in the order c(min(x), max(x), min(y), max(y)). Lastly, the object has a final component, names, which provides the name of the region each polygon is associated with. The object has class map for compatibility with the maps package.

Usage

data(canada)

Format

Contains:

x

Longitude coordinates for Canadian boundaries

y

Latitude coordinates for Canadian boundaries

range

Range of x- and y-values

names

Region name for each polygon

Source

Shapefile made available by Statistics Canada. https://www.statcan.gc.ca/eng/start.


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