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Admin 0 – Countries

Posted in 10m-cultural-vectors, Featured on Homepage on September 25th, 2009 by Nathaniel – Comments Off

There are 258 countries in the world. Greenland as separate from Denmark. Most users will want this file instead of sovereign states, though some users will want map units instead when needing to distinguish overseas regions of France.

Natural Earth shows de facto boundaries by default according to who controls the territory, versus de jure. Optional point-of-view (POV) variants are available for several dozen countries in the next section.

Download countries (4.7 MB) version 5.1.1

Download without boundary lakes (4.87 MB) version 5.1.1

Admin 0 – Countries point-of-views

Posted in 10m-cultural-vectors, Blog Post on September 25th, 2009 by Nathaniel – Comments Off

These optional point-of-view (POV) variants show the worldview for several dozen countries according to de jure boundaries (as prescribed by the home country’s law and/or local conventions) and their global alliances. This results in between 246 and 258 countries, depending on who’s counting, with variation in border alignments.

Download countries (Argentina POV) (4.68 MB) version 5.1.1

Download countries (Bangladesh POV) (4.68 MB) version 5.1.1

Download countries (Brazil POV) (4.69 MB) version 5.1.1

Download countries (China POV) (4.68 MB) version 5.1.1

Download countries (Egypt POV) (4.69 MB) version 5.1.1

Download countries (France POV) (4.69 MB) version 5.1.1

Download countries (Germany POV) (4.69 MB) version 5.1.1

Download countries (Greece POV) (4.69 MB) version 5.1.1

Download countries (Indonesia POV) (4.68 MB) version 5.1.1

Download countries (India POV) (4.69 MB) version 5.1.1

Download countries (ISO POV) (4.67 MB) version 5.1.1

Download countries (Israel POV) (4.69 MB) version 5.1.1

Download countries (Italy POV) (4.69 MB) version 5.1.1

Download countries (Japan POV) (4.69 MB) version 5.1.1

Download countries (South Korea POV) (4.69 MB) version 5.1.1

Download countries (Morocco POV) (4.68 MB) version 5.1.1

Download countries (Nepal POV) (4.69 MB) version 5.1.1

Download countries (Netherlands POV) (4.69 MB) version 5.1.1

Download countries (Pakistan POV) (4.68 MB) version 5.1.1

Download countries (Poland POV) (4.69 MB) version 5.1.1

Download countries (Portugal POV) (4.69 MB) version 5.1.1

Download countries (Palestine POV) (4.69 MB) version 5.1.1

Download countries (Russia POV) (4.71 MB) version 5.1.1

Download countries (Saudi Arabia POV) (4.68 MB) version 5.1.1

Download countries (Spain POV) (4.68 MB) version 5.1.1

Download countries (Sweden POV) (4.69 MB) version 5.1.1

Download countries (top-level-countries POV) (4.78 MB) version 5.1.1

Download countries (Turkey POV) (4.69 MB) version 5.1.1

Download countries (Taiwan POV) (4.68 MB) version 5.1.1

Download countries (United Kingdom POV) (4.69 MB) version 5.1.1

Download countries (United States POV) (4.69 MB) version 5.1.1

Download countries (Ukraine POV) (4.68 MB) version 5.1.1

Download countries (Vietnam POV) (4.69 MB) version 5.1.1

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Posted in Miscellaneous on September 24th, 2009 by Nathaniel – Comments Off

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Admin 1 – States, Provinces

Posted in 110m-cultural-vectors on September 21st, 2009 by Nathaniel – Comments Off

Internal administrative divisions of countries

Natural Earth shows de facto boundaries by default according to who controls the territory, versus de jure. Adjusted to taste which boundaries are shown, hidden, and how they are rendered using the fclass_* properties to create POV worldviews.

Download states and provinces (47.97 KB) version 5.1.1

Download without large lakes (46.31 KB) version 5.1.1

Download boundaries (25 KB) version 5.1.0

Download scale ranks (31.05 KB) version 5.1.0

Airports

Posted in 50m-cultural-vectors on September 21st, 2009 by Nathaniel – Comments Off

Transportation

Download airports (24.55 KB) version 5.0.0

Ports

Posted in 50m-cultural-vectors on September 21st, 2009 by Nathaniel – Comments Off

Transportation

Download ports (13.45 KB) version 5.0.0

Admin 0 – Details

Posted in 10m-cultural-vectors on September 19th, 2009 by Nathaniel – Comments Off

There are 209 sovereign states in the world, though only 199 issue passports. Auxiliary themes include 298 cartographic map units and 360 subunits optimized for labeling edge cases, like the four constitute countries of England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland in the United Kingdom.

Download sovereignty (4.68 MB) version 5.1.1

Download map units (4.77 MB) version 5.1.1

Download map subunits (4.8 MB) version 5.1.1

Download scale ranks (4.84 MB) version 5.1.1

Download scale ranks with minor islands (5.15 MB) version 5.1.1