provinces_territories_carto {mapcan}

Provinces and territories cartogram data (territories included)

Description

A data set with geographic information for Canadian provinces and territories, boundary divisions distorted by population size. Territories included.

Usage

provinces_territories_carto

Format

A data.frame with 40064 rows and 12 variables:

long

Longitude

lat

Latitude

order

Order of layers

hole

Polygon hole (TRUE or FALSE)

piece

Piece

pr_english

Province or territory name (English).

group

Group

population

2016 Population of Province

pr_alpha

Province or territory 2-letter identifier

pr_french

Province or territory name (French).

province_sgc_code

Province Standard Geographical Classification (SGC) code

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)