giscoR (version 0.1.1)

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)

# }