TM_WORLD_BORDERS-0.1.ZIP
Provided by Bjorn Sandvik, thematicmapping.org
Use this dataset with care, as several of the borders are disputed.
The original shapefile (world_borders.zip, 3.2 MB) was downloaded from the Mapping Hacks website:
http://www.mappinghacks.com/data/
The dataset was derived by Schuyler Erle from public domain sources.
Sean Gilles did some clean up and made some enhancements.
COLUMN TYPE DESCRIPTION
Shape Polygon Country/area border as polygon(s)
FIPS String(2) FIPS 10-4 Country Code
ISO2 String(2) ISO 3166-1 Alpha-2 Country Code
ISO3 String(3) ISO 3166-1 Alpha-3 Country Code
UN Short Integer(3) ISO 3166-1 Numeric-3 Country Code
NAME String(50) Name of country/area
AREA Long Integer(7) Land area, FAO Statistics (2002)
POP2005 Double(10,0) Population, World Polulation Prospects (2005)
REGION Short Integer(3) Macro geographical (continental region), UN Statistics
SUBREGION Short Integer(3) Geogrpahical sub-region, UN Statistics
LON FLOAT (7,3) Longitude
LAT FLOAT (6,3) Latitude
CHANGELOG VERSION 0.3 - 30 July 2008
- Corrected spelling mistake (United Arab Emirates)
- Corrected population number for Japan
- Adjusted long/lat values for India, Italy and United Kingdom
CHANGELOG VERSION 0.2 - 1 April 2008
- Made new ZIP archieves. No change in dataset.
CHANGELOG VERSION 0.1 - 13 March 2008
- Polygons representing each country were merged into one feature
- Åland Islands was extracted from Finland
- Hong Kong was extracted from China
- Holy See (Vatican City) was added
- Gaza Strip and West Bank was merged into "Occupied Palestinean Territory"
- Saint-Barthelemy was extracted from Netherlands Antilles
- Saint-Martin (Frensh part) was extracted from Guadeloupe
- Svalbard and Jan Mayen was merged into "Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands"
- Timor-Leste was extracted from Indonesia
- Juan De Nova Island was merged with "French Southern & Antarctic Land"
- Baker Island, Howland Island, Jarvis Island, Johnston Atoll, Midway Islands
and Wake Island was merged into "United States Minor Outlying Islands"
- Glorioso Islands, Parcel Islands, Spartly Islands was removed
(almost uninhabited and missing ISO-3611-1 code)
- Added ISO-3166-1 codes (alpha-2, alpha-3, numeric-3). Source:
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/appendix/appendix-d.html
http://unstats.un.org/unsd/methods/m49/m49alpha.htm
http://www.fysh.org/~katie/development/geography.txt
- AREA column has been replaced with data from UNdata:
Land area, 1000 hectares, 2002, FAO Statistics
- POPULATION column (POP2005) has been replaced with data from UNdata:
Population, 2005, Medium variant, World Population Prospects: The 2006 Revision
- Added region and sub-region codes from UN Statistics Division. Source:
http://unstats.un.org/unsd/methods/m49/m49regin.htm
- Added LAT, LONG values for each country
