| 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 | |
| - �land 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 | |