R: Simplified world country polygons

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## Simplified world country polygons

### Description

The object loaded is a `SpatialPolygonsDataFrame` object containing a slightly modified version of Bjoern Sandvik's improved version of world\_borders.zip - TM\_WORLD\_BORDERS\_SIMPL-0.2.zip dataset from the Mapping Hacks geodata site. The country Polygons objects and the data slot data frame row numbers have been set to the ISO 3166 three letter codes.

### Usage

    data(wrld_simpl)

### Format

The format is: Formal class 'SpatialPolygonsDataFrame' [package "sp"] with 5 slots; the data clot contains a data.frame with 246 obs. of 11 variables:

FIPS

  factor of FIPS country codes

ISO2

  factor of ISO 2 character country codes

ISO3

  factor of ISO 3 character country codes

UN

  integer vector of UN country codes

NAME

  Factor of country names

AREA

  integer vector of area values

POP2005

  integer vector of population in 2005

REGION

  integer vector of region values

SUBREGION

  integer vector of subregion values

LON

  numeric vector of longitude label points

LAT

  numeric vector of latitude label points

The object is in geographical coordinates using the WGS84 datum.

### Source

Originally “http://mappinghacks.com/data/TM_WORLD_BORDERS_SIMPL-0.2.zip”, now available from https://github.com/nasa/World-Wind-Java/tree/master/WorldWind/testData/shapefiles

### Examples

    data(wrld_simpl)
    plot(wrld_simpl)

[Package maptools version 0.9-3 Index]