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Title: State Boundaries: Brasil, 1911

Contributors:

Dates

  • Issued: 2011
  • Coverage: 1911

Publishers

  • Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística

Summary

This polygon shapefile contains the state boundaries of Brazil in 1911. These data were created using a custom World Polyconic projection. This layer is part of the Evolução da divisão territorial do Brasil 1872 - 2010 dataset, a collection of data representing the evolution of Brazilian states, municipalities and cities. This dataset is intended for researchers, students, and policy makers for reference and mapping purposes, and may be used for basic applications such as viewing, querying, and map output production, or to provide a basemap to support graphical overlays and analysis with other spatial data. Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística. (2011). State Boundaries: Brasil, 1911. IBGE. Available at: http://purl.stanford.edu/rs518td3523 This layer is presented in the WGS84 coordinate system for web display purposes. Downloadable data are provided in native coordinate system or projection.

Subjects

  • Boundaries
  • Brazil
  • Brazilian states
  • Datasets

Geospatial coordinates

  • Bounding Box: BBOX (-73.990461, -34.793132, 5.271891, -33.749118)
  • Geometry: BBOX (-73.990461, -34.793132, 5.271891, -33.749118)

Provider

Stanford

Rights

  • Access rights: Public

Citation

Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística. State Boundaries: Brasil, 1911. Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística. Polygon data. https://purl.stanford.edu/rs518td3523

Format

Shapefile

Languages

  • English