Get natural earth world country polygons

returns world country polygons at a specified scale, or points of tiny_countries

Usage

ne_countries(
  scale = 110,
  type = "countries",
  continent = NULL,
  country = NULL,
  geounit = NULL,
  sovereignty = NULL,
  returnclass = c("sf", "sv")
)

Arguments

scale

The scale of map to return, one of `110`, `50`, `10` or `small`, `medium`, `large`.

type

country type, one of 'countries', 'map_units', 'sovereignty', 'tiny_countries'

continent

a character vector of continent names to get countries from.

country

a character vector of country names.

geounit

a character vector of geounit names.

sovereignty

a character vector of sovereignty names.

returnclass

A string determining the spatial object to return. Either "sf" for for simple feature (from `sf`, the default) or "sv" for a `SpatVector` (from `terra`).

Value

An object of class `sf` for simple feature (from `sf`, the default) or `SpatVector` (from `terra`).

Details

Note that the filename of the requested object will be returned if `load = FALSE`.

See also

ne_load, pre-downloaded data are available using ne_countries, ne_states. Other geographic data are available in the raster package : getData.

Examples

world <- ne_countries()
africa <- ne_countries(continent = "africa")
france <- ne_countries(country = "france")

plot(world$geometry)

plot(africa$geometry)

plot(france$geometry)


# get as SpatVector
world <- ne_countries(returnclass = "sv")
terra::plot(world)


tiny_countries <- ne_countries(type = "tiny_countries", scale = 50)
plot(tiny_countries)
#> Warning: plotting the first 10 out of 170 attributes; use max.plot = 170 to plot all