gisco_countries {giscoR}

World countries POLYGON sf object

Description

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.

Source

CNTR_RG_20M_2016_4326.geojson file.

See Also

gisco_get_countries()

Other dataset: gisco_coastallines, gisco_countrycode, gisco_db, gisco_nuts

Examples

data("gisco_countries")
head(gisco_countries)