SimpleCountriesEEZ is a simplified world borders dataset with a 200 mile coastal buffer corresponding to Exclusive Economic Zones, suitable for quick spatial searches. This dataset is distributed with the package and is used by default whenever a dataset with country polygons is required.
A SpatialPolygonsDataFrame with 261 elements and 6 columns of data.
This dataset is equivalent to EEZCountries but with fewer columns of data.
convertEEZCountries