/world-geojson

GeoJson for all the countries, areas (regions) and some states.

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World boundaries in GeoJSON format

This repository contains GeoJSON data for all the countries boundaries including boundaries for states of bigger countries (note that this repository is currently filling). Detalization is good for using this data on scales up to 1:10000000 / gmaps zoom 6-7 (it's the best quality in combination with free-to-use license).

Quality example

Countries (release 1.0)

Contries boundaries besides mainlands include all the geographically separated, but de jure dependent, associated and managed territories. Separated mainland and all the territories mentioned are added in release 2. Countries states are to be added in release 3. More about countries boundaries release here.

Additional areas (release 2.0)

Besides bigger countries which are to be splitted into states, some smaller are also worth to be splitted into geographical areas. More about additional area boundaries release here.

Countries split into areas are:

  • Denmark (3): Mainland/Greenland/Faroe Islands
  • Ecuador (2): Mainland/Galápagos Islands
  • France (18): Mainland/Corsica/French Guiana/Guadeloupe/Martinique/Mayotte/Réunion/Clipperton Island/French Polynesia/New Caledonia/Saint Barthélemy/Saint Martin/Saint Pierre and Miquelon/Wallis and Futuna/French Southern and Atlantic Lands
  • Italy (3): Mainland/Sardinia/Sicily
  • Netherlands (7): Mainland/Bonaire/Saba/Sint Eustatius/Aruba/Curaçao/Sin Maarten
  • New Zealand (12): Mainland/North Island/South Island/Tokelau/Kermadec Islands/Chatham Islands/Three Kings Islands/Antipodes Islands/Auckland Islands/Bounty Islands/Campbell Island/Snares Islands
  • Norway (3): Mainland/Svalbard/Jan Mayen
  • Portugal (3): Mainland/Azores/Madeira
  • Spain (3): Mailand/Canary Islands/Balearic Islands
  • United Kingdom (21): United Kingdom/England/Scotland/Wales/Northern Ireland/Isle of Man/Guernsey/Jersey/Gibraltar/Akrotiri and Dhekelia/Bermuda/Turks and Caicos Islands/British Virgin Islands/Anguilla/Cayman Islands/Montserrat/Pitcairn Islands/Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan de Cunha/British Indian Ocean Territory/Falkland Islands/South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
  • USA (17): Mainland (to be splitted to states)/Palmyra Atoll/Guam/Northern Mariana Islands/Puerto Rico/United States Virgin Islands/American Samoa/Baker Island/Howland Island/Jarvis Island/Johnston Atoll/Kingman Reef/Wake Island/Midway Atoll/Navassa Island/Serranilla Bank/Bajo Nuevo Bank

States boundaries (in progress)

Countries which we are going to provide state boundaries for:

  • Australia (ready)
  • Argentina (pending: 24)
  • Brazil (pending: 26)
  • Canada (ready, OSM data)
  • China (pending: 33)
  • India (pending: 29)
  • Indonesia (pending: 34)
  • Kazakhstan (pending: 14)
  • Mexico (pending: 31)
  • Philippines (pending: 18)
  • Russia (pending: 83)
  • USA (ready, OSM data)

Note that some states boundaries are provided by OSM, however quality of that data is much lower.

Roadmap

Future planned changes and improvements are:

  • Most of the countries boundaries were prepared manually, so borders don't perfectly align - that is to be improved (work started)
  • Replace states boundaries provided by OSM with manually-done boundaries with much better quality.

Tools and services used

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