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Title: Global GIS : World cities (2000)

Contributors:

Dates

  • Issued: 2003
  • Coverage: 2000

Publishers

  • American Geological Institute

Summary

This datalayer is a point coverage representing cities worldwide and was produced by ESRI and published as part of the USGS Global GIS database. It was originally issued as part of the ESRI Data & Maps 2000 data set. Attribute data includes information on city size (population) and port status. 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

  • Location
  • Earth
  • Northern Hemisphere
  • Southern Hemisphere
  • Eastern Hemisphere
  • Western Hemisphere
  • Africa
  • Asia
  • Australia
  • Europe
  • North America
  • South America
  • Cities and towns
  • Capitals (Cities)
  • Datasets

Geospatial coordinates

  • Bounding Box: BBOX (-176.151566, 179.221893, 78.199997, -54.792)
  • Geometry: BBOX (-176.151566, 179.221893, 78.199997, -54.792)

Provider

Harvard

Rights

  • Access rights: Restricted

Citation

Environmental Systems Research Institute (Redlands, Calif.), Geological Survey (U.S), American Geological Institute. Global GIS : World cities (2000). American Geological Institute. Point data. https://hgl.harvard.edu/catalog/harvard-glb-esricty

Format

Shapefile