provinces_territories {mapcan}

Provinces and territories standard geographic data

Description

A data set with geographic information for Canadian provinces and territories

Usage

provinces_territories

Format

A data.frame with 37111 rows and 10 variables:

long

Longitude

lat

Latitude

order

Order of layers

hole

Polygon hole (TRUE or FALSE)

piece

Piece

province_sgc_code

Province Standard Geographical Classification (SGC) code

group

Group

pr_english

Province or territory name (English).

pr_french

Province or territory name (French).

pr_alpha

Province or territory 2-letter identifier

Source

https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2011/geo/bound-limit/bound-limit-2016-eng.cfm, (under Statistics Canada Open Licence https://www.statcan.gc.ca/eng/reference/licence)