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Title: Global GIS : world administrative units, 2002

Contributors:

Dates

  • Issued: 2003
  • Coverage: 2002

Publishers

  • American Geological Institute

Summary

This datalayer is a polygon coverage representing First-Order Administrative Areas worldwide (as they existed in 2002) and was originally produced by ESRI for the Global GIS database. Attribute data includes information on administrative region names, type, size (population) and country of location. The USGS Global GIS database contains a wealth of USGS and other public domain data, including global coverages of elevation, landcover, seismicity, and resources of minerals and energy at a nominal scale of 1:1 million. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and The American Geological Institute (AGI) announced a cooperative agreement that will focus on making the USGS Global Geographic Information System (GIS) database readily available to educators and the general public in the form of a DVD based world atlas.

Subjects

  • Boundaries
  • Earth
  • Northern Hemisphere
  • Southern Hemisphere
  • Eastern Hemisphere
  • Western Hemisphere
  • Africa
  • Asia
  • Australia
  • Europe
  • North America
  • South America
  • Administrative and political divisions
  • Datasets

Geospatial coordinates

  • Bounding Box: BBOX (-180, 180, 83.623596, -90)
  • Geometry: BBOX (-180, 180, 83.623596, -90)

Provider

Harvard

Rights

  • Access rights: Restricted

Citation

Environmental Systems Research Institute (Redlands, Calif.), Geological Survey (U.S), American Geological Institute. Global GIS : world administrative units, 2002. American Geological Institute. Polygon data. https://hgl.harvard.edu/catalog/harvard-glb-esriad

Format

Shapefile