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Title: Municipalities: Brasil, 1940

Contributors:

Dates

  • Issued: 2011
  • Coverage: 1940

Publishers

  • Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística

Summary

This point shapefile contains locations of municipalities Brazil in 1940. 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). Municipalities: Brasil, 1940. IBGE. Available at: http://purl.stanford.edu/jh057jv4323 This layer is presented in the WGS84 coordinate system for web display purposes. Downloadable data are provided in native coordinate system or projection.

Subjects

  • Location
  • Brazil
  • Cities and towns
  • Municipal government
  • Datasets

Geospatial coordinates

  • Bounding Box: BBOX (-72.670195, -34.855079, 2.819543, -33.517148)
  • Geometry: BBOX (-72.670195, -34.855079, 2.819543, -33.517148)

Provider

Stanford

Rights

  • Access rights: Public

Citation

Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística. Municipalities: Brasil, 1940. Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística. Point data. https://purl.stanford.edu/jh057jv4323

Format

Shapefile

Languages

  • English