Populated Places
City and town points, from Tokyo to Wasilla, Cairo to Kandahar [drain file 128 show nev_download][drain file 230 show nev_download]
Urban Areas
Area of dense human habitation.
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Glaciated Areas
Includes glaciers and recently de-glaciated areas.
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Admin 0 – Countries
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.
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Bathymetry
Nested polygons for each depth created from SRTM Plus.
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Railroads
Transportation[drain file 242 show nev_download]
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Rivers, Lake Centerlines
Single-line drainages including optional lake centerlines.
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Parks and Protected Lands
398 parks, including the latest additions, Fort Monroe, Virginia and Cesar Chávez, California.
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Admin 0 – Details
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.
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Roads
Transportation. [drain file 241 show nev_download]
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Admin 0 – Breakaway, Disputed Areas
Kashmir to the Elemi Triangle, ~100 features
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 paired with the POV worldview polygons above.
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Reefs
Coral reefs and atolls.
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Cross Blended Hypso with Shaded Relief and Water
With Shaded Relief and Water
Land coloring based on elevation.
Add your own rivers and lakes.
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Admin 1 – States, provinces
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.
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Antarctic Ice Shelves
Year-round ice shelves fringing Antarctica.
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Natural Earth I with Shaded Relief and Water
With Shaded Relief and Water
Coloring based on land cover. Add your own rivers and lakes.
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