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Admin 0 – Countries

Posted in 110m-cultural-vectors on September 21st, 2009 by davidh – 3 Comments

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.

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Admin 0 – Details

Posted in 110m-cultural-vectors on September 21st, 2009 by davidh – 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 (203.99 KB) version 5.1.1

Download map units (213.64 KB) version 5.1.1

Download scale ranks (146.92 KB) version 5.1.0

Download tiny country points (28.81 KB) version 5.1.1

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Admin 0 – Boundary Lines

Posted in 110m-cultural-vectors on September 21st, 2009 by davidh – 1 Comment

Country boundaries on land and offshore

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 country boundaries (55.98 KB) version 5.1.0

Download Pacific grouping lines (18.54 KB) version 4.0.0

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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

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Rivers, Lake Centerlines

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

Single-line drainages including optional lake centerlines.

Download rivers and lake centerlines (492.63 KB) version 5.0.0

Download with scale ranks + tapering (581.53 KB) version 5.0.0

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Populated Places

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

City and town points, from Tokyo to Cairo

Download populated places (123.62 KB) version 5.1.2

Download simple (less columns) (36.51 KB) version 5.1.2

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Lakes + Reservoirs

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

Natural and artificial lakes.

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Admin 0 – Countries

Posted in 50m-cultural-vectors on September 21st, 2009 by davidh – 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.

Download countries (781.78 KB) version 5.1.1

Download without boundary lakes (799.31 KB) version 5.1.1

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Admin 0 – Details

Posted in 50m-cultural-vectors, Featured on Homepage on September 21st, 2009 by davidh – 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 tiny country points (47.18 KB) version 5.1.1

Download tiny county scale ranks (11.66 KB) version 5.1.0

Download sovereignty (758.17 KB) version 5.1.1

Download map units (797.74 KB) version 5.1.1

Download map subunits (816.84 KB) version 5.1.1

Download scale ranks (727.08 KB) version 5.1.0

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Admin 0 – Boundary Lines

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

Country boundaries on land and offshore

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.