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Natural Earth data in GeoJSON

Natural Earth "is a public domain map dataset available at 1:10m, 1:50m and 1:110 million scales." The vector data comes as ESRI shapefiles. This repository provides the same data but converted to GeoJSON, along with a compressed version.

The conversion is performed using ogr2ogr, part of the Geospatial Data Abstraction Library (GDAL). GDAL provides links to binaries. Debian provides the package gdal-bin.

Data Themes

An overview of the files, taken from the features page:

Cultural

Section Description 1:10m 1:50m 1:110m
Countries Matched boundary lines and polygons with names attributes for countries and sovereign states. Includes dependencies (French Polynesia), map units (U.S. Pacific Island Territories) and sub-national map subunits (Corsica versus mainland Metropolitan France). Yes Yes Yes
Disputed areas and breakaway regions From Kashmir to the Elemi Triangle, Northern Cyprus to Western Sahara. Yes Yes
First order admin Provinces, departments, states, etc. Internal boundaries and polygons for all but a few tiny island nations. Includes names attributes and some statistical groupings of the same for smaller countries. Yes Yes
Populated places Point symbols with name attributes. Includes capitals, major cities and towns, plus significant smaller towns in sparsely inhabited regions. We favor regional significance over population census in determining rankings. Yes Yes Yes
Urban polygons Derived from 2002-2003 MODIS satellite data. Yes Yes
Parks and protected areas U.S. National Park Service units. Yes
Pacific nation groupings Boxes for keeping these far-flung islands tidy. Yes Yes Yes
Water boundary indicators Partial selection of key 200-mile nautical limits, plus some disputed, treaty, and median lines. Yes

Physical

Section Description 1:10m 1:50m 1:110m
Coastline Ocean coastline, including major islands. Coastline is matched to land and water polygons. Yes Yes Yes
Land Land polygons including major islands Yes Yes Yes
Ocean Ocean polygon split into contiguous pieces. Yes Yes Yes
Minor Islands Additional small ocean islands ranked to two levels of relative importance. Yes
Reefs Major coral reefs from WDB2. Yes
Physical region features Polygon and point labels of major physical features. Yes Yes Yes
Rivers and Lake Centerlines Ranked by relative importance. Includes name and line width attributes. Don't want minor lakes? Turn on their centerlines to avoid unseemly data gaps. Yes Yes Yes
Lakes Ranked by relative importance, coordinating with river ranking. Includes name attributes. Yes Yes Yes
Glaciated areas Polygons derived from DCW, except for Antarctica derived from MOA. Includes name attributes for major polar glaciers. Yes Yes Yes
Antarctic ice shelves Derived from 2003-2004 MOA. Reflects recent ice shelf collapses. Yes Yes
Bathymetry Nested polygons at 0, -200, -1,000, -2,000, -3,000, -4,000, -5,000, -6,000, -7,000, -8,000, -9,000,and -10,000 meters. Created from SRTM Plus. Yes
Geographic lines Polar circles, tropical circles, equator, and International Date Line. Yes Yes Yes
Graticules 1-, 5-, 10-, 15-, 20-, and 30-degree increments. Includes WGS84 bounding box. Yes Yes Yes

Version

Data are the most recent as of 2024-01-24. Converted using GDAL 3.2.2 (2021-03-05).

Licence

Licensed under the CC0 licence.

Disclaimer

The Natural Earth disclaimer regarding disputed areas:

Natural Earth Vector draws boundaries of countries according to de facto status. We show who actually controls the situation on the ground. Please feel free to mashup our disputed area themes to match your particular political outlook.

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