World borders

This shapefile contains country borders for the whole world.

Provided by Bjorn Sandvik, thematicmapping.org

If you have any comments about this dataset, please post them on this page. 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.

Field	Value
Source	http://thematicmapping.org/downloads/world_borders.php
Author	Mapping Hacks
Maintainer	thematicmapping.org
Last Updated	August 9, 2017, 11:54 (UTC)
Created	May 25, 2016, 10:57 (UTC)
Status	completed
Theme	Administrative units
Topic	Boundaries
Usage Contraints	CC-Atribution Share Alike license
Region	World
Classification	unclassified
Custodian	thematicmapping.org
Contact	Bjorn Sandvik
Creation date	2016-05-25
Temporal extent
Bbox-east-long	180.0
Bbox-west-long	-180.0
Bbox-north-lat	90.0
Bbox-south-lat	-90.0
Spatial reference system	EPSG:4326