wri-bounds

Country shapefiles and boundaries for WRI

Based off NaturalEarthData.com

DISCLAIMER These files are an attempt to represent country areas and boundaries from several perspectives and may be changed at any time. They do not imply any opinion on the part of the World Resources Institute concerning the legal status or delineation of any country or territory, nor do they imply endorsement of the represented country areas or boundaries.

Downloads

Data are organized into three perspectives: 'U.S.', 'China', and 'India'. The default version of the files only display some of the more prominent and active disputes. If needed, additional disputed areas can be found on Natural Earth Data.

Vector files for print layout (svg) and a csv of names and other attributes is also available.

U.S.	China	India

GIS Files by Country Perspective

Data	Description	Shapefile	GeoJSON	Simplified GeoJSON
"Primary" countries	UN member states, sans dependencies	U.S./China/India	U.S./China/India	U.S./China/India
"All" countries	All land area	U.S./China/India	U.S./China/India	U.S./China/India
All boundaries	Cartographic boundaries (see below)	All	All	All
Non-disputed bounds	Cartographic boundaries	U.S./China/India	U.S./China/India	U.S./China/India
Disputed bounds	Cartographic boundaries	U.S./China/India	U.S./China/India	U.S./China/India
Disputed areas	Disputed areas	U.S./China/India	U.S./China/India	U.S./China/India
Land	All land area	All	All	All

Key fields

Countries:"PRIMARY"

• 0:Non UN
• 1:UN Member

Boundaries:"INTL" - 'U.S.' perspective

• 0:Do not show
• 1:Country boundary
• 2:Disputed boundary

Boundaries:"CHN" - 'China' perspective

• 0:Do not show
• 1:Country boundary
• 2:Disputed boundary

Boundaries:"IND" - 'India' perspective

• 0:Do not show
• 1:Country boundary
• 2:Disputed boundary

Attribute table

CSV

Column	Description	Source
iso_short	ISO Short Name	ISO 3166
name	Country name	Natural Earth Data
formal_name	Full formal country name	Natural Earth Data
short_name	Short country name	Natural Earth Data
abbrev	Country name abbreviation	Natural Earth Data
un_ar	UN GEGN Arabic name	UN GEGN
un_zh	UN GEGN Chinese name	UN GEGN
un_en	UN GEGN English name	UN GEGN
un_fr	UN GEGN French name	UN GEGN
un_ru	UN GEGN Russian name	UN GEGN
un_es	UN GEGN Spanish name	UN GEGN
adm0_a3	Country Code	Natural Earth Data
postal	Postal Code	Natural Earth Data
iso_a2	ISO A2 Code	ISO 3166
iso_a3	ISO A3 Code	Natural Earth Data
iso_n3	ISO N3 Code	Natural Earth Data
un_n3	UN N3 Code	Natural Earth Data
wb_a2	World Bank A2 code	Natural Earth Data
wb_a3	World Bank A3 code	Natural Earth Data
type	Country type
continent	Continent	Natural Earth Data
un_region	UN Region	Natural Earth Data
un_subregion	UN Subregion	Natural Earth Data
wb_region	World Bank Region	Natural Earth Data

Build

You can modify the parameters used to generate these boundary sets.

Requires:

• GDAL/OGR
• node
• mapshaper@0.2.x

OS X Macports

port install gdal
port install npm
npm install mapshaper@0.2.x
make