Admin 2 – Counties

Internal sub-administrative divisions of countries (limited to United States)
Download counties (1.83 MB) version 5.1.1
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Internal, second-order administrative boundaries and polygons for just the United States. Includes name attributes (including diacritical marks), name variants, and some statistical codes (FIPS, ISO, HASC).

Admin-0 units that lack admin-2:

All countries but the United States lack admin-2 features.

How-to

Use the following selection statement to derive this theme from the 10m lakes:

“ScaleRank” <=2 Then punch those selected features through the admin-1 and save result as a new feature class. Issues

This is the toughest dataset to keep current. A few changes happen in a decade in the United States, but other countries constantly rearrange their admin-2 units, slicing and combining them on a regular basis.

Boundaries should perfectly match the following NEV themes:

Coastline, lake shoreline, admin-0 country boundary, admin-1 state/province boundary, river and lake centerlines.

Version History

The master changelog is available on Github »

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