| australia {nswgeo} | R Documentation |
Geospatial data of the Australian state and territory administrative boundaries.
Description
Excludes external territories.
Usage
australia
states
Format
An object of class sfc_MULTIPOLYGON (inherits from sfc) of length 1.
An object of class sf (inherits from tbl_df, tbl, data.frame) with 8 rows and 9 columns.
Details
The geometries have been simplified with a tolerance of 5 km to reduce the level of detail.
Functions
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australia: External boundaries of Australia as a multipolygon. -
states: State and internal territory boundaries of Australia.
Source
Australian Bureau of Statistics. "Australian Statistical Geography Standard (ASGS) Edition 3." ABS, Jul2021-Jun2026, https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/standards/australian-statistical-geography-standard-asgs-edition-3/jul2021-jun2026, accessed 10 November 2022.
The original dataset is published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence, © Commonwealth of Australia 2021.
Examples
library(ggplot2)
ggplot(states) + geom_sf(aes(fill = STE_NAME21))