Country boundaries#

countries · theme boundaries · live

Country polygons worldwide: Natural Earth at 1:10m, 1:50m or 1:110m, or geoBoundaries ADM0 country by country.

import easysnowdata as esd

aoi = (-121.94, 46.72, -121.54, 46.99)   # Mount Rainier
countries_gdf = esd.boundaries.admin.countries(aoi)

No account needed

Every route to this product is open. Nothing to set up.

Sources#

2 routes serve this product; the first is the default and source= picks another. The return contract is the same either way.

source

provider

credentials

resolution

extent

temporal

latency

notes

natural-earth (default)

vector_http

none

—

global

static (v5.1.1; a few layers 5.0.0)

—

zipped shapefile, cached on first use; 1:10m, 1:50m, and 1:110m

geoboundaries

vector_http

none

—

global

continuously updated

—

ADM0; one country per request through the gbOpen API, GeoJSON cached per release

Where each route points#

natural-earth — Natural Earth live

https://naciscdn.org/naturalearth/<scale>/cultural/ne_<scale>_admin_0_countries.zip

geoboundaries — geoBoundaries (gbOpen) live

https://www.geoboundaries.org/api/current/gbOpen/<ISO3>/ADM<level>/

Variables#

variable

units

dtype

nodata

categorical

name

—

—

—

no

iso3

—

—

—

no

admin_level

—

—

—

no

Provenance#

Licence · Public domain (Natural Earth); CC BY 4.0 (geoBoundaries gbOpen)

Cite the data as

Natural Earth. Free vector and raster map data @ naturalearthdata.com.

Documentation

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