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Title: World Geographic Lines, 1:10 million, (2012)

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Dates

  • Issued: 2012
  • Coverage: 2012

Publishers

  • North American Cartographic Information Society

Summary

This line shapefile depicts tropical circles, polar circles, the International Date Line and the equator as geographic lines. Same as 50 million geographic lines. These data are represented at 1:10,000,000 scale. This layer is part of the Natural Earth Collection (v.2.0.0). Natural Earth is a public domain map dataset available at 1:10m, 1:50m, and 1:110 million scales. Featuring tightly integrated vector and raster data, with Natural Earth you can make a variety of visually pleasing, well-crafted maps with cartography or GIS software. Kelso, N.V. and Patterson, T. (2012). World Geographic Lines, 1:10 million, (2012). Made with Natural Earth, online at http://www.naturalearthdata.com. 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
  • Earth (Planet)
  • Equator
  • International Date Line
  • Tropics
  • Polar regions
  • Datasets

Geospatial coordinates

  • Bounding Box: BBOX (-174.232606, 151.054509, 66.549985, -66.549926)
  • Geometry: BBOX (-174.232606, 151.054509, 66.549985, -66.549926)

Provider

Stanford

Rights

  • Access rights: Public

Citation

Patterson, Tom, Kelso, Nathaniel Vaughn. World Geographic Lines, 1:10 million, (2012). North American Cartographic Information Society. https://purl.stanford.edu/cp652qz8675

Format

Shapefile

Languages

  • English