Natural Earth Admin1 Polygons as GeoJSON

Geodata data package providing geojson polygons for the largest administrative subdivisions in every countries.

Data

Note : this dataset and its source are still in BETA.

The data comes from Natural Earth, a community effort to make visually pleasing, well-crafted maps with cartography or GIS software at small scale.

Admin1 is the biggest administrative subdivision of countries. Note that it is very heterogeneous among countries : in the United States of America, admin1 represents states, whereas they don't represent the inner countries in the United Kingdom. For more information, please see official documentation or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_of_administrative_divisions_by_country.

The shape of the admin1 have four fields :

• name : the common name for this admin1 subdivision
• id : code for the subdivision inside the country. Documentation is not clear what this code is, but it could be FIPS. Note that some countries like Vatican are so small they don't have inner administrative subdivision. In that case code could be null and in any way it is irrelevant.
• country : name of the country
• ISO3166-1-Alpha-3 : three letters iso code of the country

Preparation

To run the script in order to update the data : see scripts README

License

All data is licensed under the Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and License.

Note that the original data from Natural Earth is public domain. While no credit is formally required a link back or credit to Natural Earth, Lexman and the Open Knowledge Foundation is much appreciated.

All source code is licenced under the MIT licence.