Check the coverage of the bounding box associated to a place name

[XavierGimenez]

The bounding box for a given place name is obtained using the function getbb from the {osmdata} package.

This function uses the free Nominatim API provided by OpenStreetMap to find the bounding box (bb) associated with place names. But not sure which administrative boundaries are taken from the multiple results you can get.

If you go to the Nominatim page and search for any place, multiple results are returned.