This shapefile contains country borders for the whole world.
Provided by Bjorn Sandvik, thematicmapping.org
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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 is available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike License. If you use this dataset, please provide a link to this website.