Geodata data package providing GeoJSON polygons for first-order administrative subdivisions worldwide.

Data

The data comes from Natural Earth, a public domain map dataset for cartography and GIS.

Admin1 is the biggest administrative subdivision of countries. Note that it is very heterogeneous among countries: in the United States of America, admin1 represents states, whereas they don't represent inner countries in the United Kingdom. For more information, please see official documentation or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_of_administrative_divisions_by_country.

The admin1 resource exposes the following key properties:

• name: common name for the subdivision.
• admin: country name.
• iso_3166_2: ISO 3166-2 subdivision code where available.
• adm0_a3: ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code.

Preparation

To run the script:

# Install libraries
pip install -r scripts/requirements.txt

# Update the data
python scripts/process.py

License

All data is licensed under the Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and License.

Note that the original data from Natural Earth is public domain.

All source code is licenced under the MIT licence.