giscoR (version 0.2.4)

gisco_countries: World countries POLYGON 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

See Also

gisco_get_countries()

Examples

# NOT RUN {
library(sf)

cntry <- gisco_countries
GBR <- subset(cntry, ISO3_CODE == "GBR")

plot(st_geometry(GBR), col = "red3", border = "blue4")
title(sub = gisco_attributions(), line = 1)
# }