Get natural earth world state (admin level 1) polygons
returns state polygons (administrative level 1) for specified countries
ne_states(country = NULL, geounit = NULL, iso_a2 = NULL, spdf = NULL, returnclass = c("sp", "sf"))
country |
a character vector of country names. |
geounit |
a character vector of geounit names. |
iso_a2 |
a character vector of iso_a2 country codes |
spdf |
an optional alternative states map |
returnclass |
'sp' default or 'sf' for Simple Features |
SpatialPolygonsDataFrame
or sf
# comparing using country and geounit to filter if (requireNamespace("rnaturalearthhires")) { spdf_france_country <- ne_states(country = 'france') spdf_france_geounit <- ne_states(geounit = 'france') if (require(sp)) { plot(spdf_france_country) plot(spdf_france_geounit) plot(ne_states(country = 'united kingdom')) plot(ne_states(geounit = 'england')) } }
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