EEA geospatial data catalogue
GISCO - Administrative units 2013 at country level, Nov. 2015
This data set contains the administrative boundaries at country level of the world and is based on the geometry from EBM v8.x. of EuroGeographics for the members of Eurogeographics, the Global Administrative Units Layer (2013) from FAO (UN) and geometry from the Turkish National Statistical Office. This dataset consists of 2 feature classes (regions, boundaries) per scale level and there are 6 different scale levels (100K, 1M, 3M, 10M, 20M and 60M). The public dataset is available at 1M, 3M, 10M, 20M, 60M, while the full dataset at 100K is restricted.
This metadata only refers to the full dataset at 100k and shall only be used internally by the EEA. This metadata has been slightly adapted from the original metadata file provided by Eurostat (European Commission) and is to be used only for internal EEA purposes. For reference, the original metadata file provided by ESTAT (CNTR_2013.xml) is provided together with the dataset.
The public dataset is available for download on http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/gisco/geodata/reference-data/administrative-units-statistical-units/countries#countries13.
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Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 2015-11-01
- Citation identifier
- eurostat_v_4258_100_k_gisco-admin-boundaries_i_2013_V01_r00
- Status
- Superseded
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
Spatial resolution
Equivalent scale
- Denominator
- 100000
- Topic category
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- Boundaries
Extent
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Temporal extent
- Time period
- 2013-01-01 2013-12-31
- Maintenance and update frequency
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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Administrative units
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- GEMET
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administrative boundary
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- Continents, countries, sea regions of the world.
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World
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Resource constraints
- Use limitation
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Generalised dataset derived from EuroGeographics and UN-FAO GI data. The dataset may be used and distributed if: The source (EuroGeographics and UN-FAO) is acknowledged, AND The data is not used for commercial purpose, AND The original geometry is generalised to the equivalent of a scale of 1:1.000.000 or smaller. The source, copyright and branding will be acknowledged if the geographic data are used in Commission products. The acknowledgement will be displayed as “@EuroGeographics” on the map or in an acknowledgement text. The size of the text on the map will be proportional to the size of the map. The maximum length of copyright texts on electronic maps (web maps or electronic applications) is 20 characters. No copyright text will be applied for online icon maps with less than 150 x 150 pixels.
Resource constraints
- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
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(e) intellectual property rights
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Distribution Information
- Distribution format
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GDB
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- OnLine resource
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Direct download (Eionet authentication)
- OnLine resource
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Direct download (Eionet authentication)
Data quality info
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Report
- Measure identification
- INSPIRE/Conformity_001
Result
- Title
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Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services
- Date (Publication)
- 2010-11-23
- Explanation
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See the referenced specification
Resource lineage
- Statement
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The dataset is based on the geometry from EBM v8.x. of EuroGeographics for the members of Eurogeographics, the Global Administrative Units Layer (2013) from FAO (UN) and geometry from the Turkish National Statistical Office. This resulted in a common repository of geometry of which the different datasets were derived. The different scale levels were derived of generalisations of the common repository on 100K scale. This means that within each scale level the feature classes of all these datasets: COMM_2013, NUTS_2013, CNTR_2013, EEZ_2013 and COAS_2013, are fully coherent and compliant. Each scale level in the CNTR_2013 dataset consists of 2 feature classes (regions and boundaries) The boundaries and regions are related to each other through a relationship table. In addition to the region and boundary feature classes there is also 1 label feature class which is scale independent. For each CNTR in the region feature class there is exactly 1 label and an associated record in the CNTR_AT table which contains names and poltical status.
In this version the Territory of Ashmore and Cartier Islands has been merged with Australia and the AC country code removed.
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Reference System Information
Reference System Information
- Code
- EPSG:4258
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
- ffdf7094-0d4a-497d-9b78-7545cb03da25
- Language
- English
- Contact
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Organisation Individual Electronic mail address Website Role European Environment Agency
Point of contact
Type of resource
- Resource type
- Dataset
- Name
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Service
- Metadata linkage
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https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/catalogue/srv/api/records/ffdf7094-0d4a-497d-9b78-7545cb03da25
- Date info (Creation)
- 2018-04-30T09:50:05Z
- Date info (Revision)
- 2025-10-09T11:25:50.966714Z
Metadata standard
- Title
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INSPIRE Metadata Commission Regulation (EC) No 1205/2008
- Edition
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03.12.2008
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