GISCO - Administrative units 2020 at country level (COUNTRIES 2020), Feb. 2020

This dataset contains administrative boundaries at country level. This dataset contains 2 feature classes (regions and boundaries) per scale level and there are 6 different scale levels (100K, 1M, 3M, 10M, 20M and 60M). In addition to those 12 feature classes, there is an additional scale-independent feature class for the labels. This dataset has been extracted from the GISCO database [CNTR_2020] maintained by Eurostat (European Commission).

The extent of the feature classes covers the entire world. The countries dataset is used mainly for mapping purposes.

This dataset is created by aligning the EBM 2020 dataset (Reference date 31.12.2018) of EuroGeographics (for EuroGeographics members), with the GISCO 2016 country data. All countries that are fully available in EBM (EU, EFTA, Cooperating Countries, Andorra, Belarus, Greenland, Moldova, Georgia and Ukraine) are used as the master dataset whose boundaries are not amended.

The dataset is available for public use at 1M, 3M, 10M, 20M, 60M, while the full dataset at 100K is restricted. The public dataset for 2020 will be soon available for download on https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/gisco/geodata/reference-data/administrative-units-statistical-units/countries.



IMPORTANT NOTE: This metadata shall only be used internally by the EEA. This metadata has been slightly adapted from the original metadata information provided by Eurostat (European Commission) and is to be used only for internal EEA purposes. For reference, the original metadata information provided by ESTAT (COUNTRIES_2020.xml) is provided together with the dataset as well as a copy from the information available on this dataset on the GISCO wiki (CNTR2020_GISCOWiki.pdf extracted on 23.04.2020).

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Identification info

Date (Creation)
2020-02-28
Citation identifier
eurostat_v_4258_100_k_gisco-admin-boundaries-2020_i_2020_v01_r00

Status
Superseded
Spatial representation type
Vector

Spatial resolution

Equivalent scale

Denominator
100000

Spatial resolution

Equivalent scale

Denominator
1000000

Spatial resolution

Equivalent scale

Denominator
3000000

Spatial resolution

Equivalent scale

Denominator
10000000

Spatial resolution

Equivalent scale

Denominator
20000000

Spatial resolution

Equivalent scale

Denominator
60000000
Topic category
  • Boundaries

Extent

N
S
E
W




Temporal extent

Time position
2020-01-01
Maintenance and update frequency
As needed
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

  • Administrative units

GEMET

  • administrative boundary

  • boundary layer

  • national boundary

  • European Commission

  • world

  • political geography

Continents, countries, sea regions of the world.

  • World

Spatial scope

Resource constraints

Access constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints
public access limited according to Article 13(1)(e) of the INSPIRE Directive

Resource constraints

Use constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints

Access to this data set is restricted to the personnel of the European Commission and its contractors. Public access to the full dataset is not possible due to intellectual property rights.

Use is allowed inside the European Commission. However, the data set can be freely distributed if the spatial resolution is 1:1.000.000 or smaller, or less than 20% of the data relevant to the displayed area is shown.

The source and intellectual property have always to be acknowledged. To this end, an acknowledgement as specified below must be visible on any printed or electronic publication using the data.



Acknowledgement notice, depending on the language used in the publication:

English: Administrative boundaries: © EuroGeographics, © FAO (UN), © TurkStat Source: European Commission – Eurostat/GISCO

French: Limites administratives: © EuroGeographics, © FAO (UN), © TurkStat Source: Commission Européenne – Eurostat/GISCO

German: Verwaltungsgrenzen: © EuroGeographics, © FAO (UN), © TurkStat Quelle: Europäische Kommission - Eurostat/GISCO



For publications in languages other than English, French or German, the translation of the Acknowledgement notice in the language of the publication must be used.

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Distribution Information

Distribution format

  • GDB

OnLine resource

Direct download (Eionet authentication)

OnLine resource

Direct download (Eionet authentication)

Data quality info

Hierarchy level
Dataset

Report

Result

Title

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)
2010-12-08
Explanation

See the referenced specification

Resource lineage

Statement

The dataset is based on the geometry from EBM v2020 of EuroGeographics for the members of Eurogeographics, and the generalised scales are based on GISCO Countries 2016 due to the lack of updates of the UN FAO Gaul dataset.

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_2020, NUTS_2021, CNTR_2020, EEZ_2020 and COAS_2020, are fully coherent and compliant. Each scale level in the CNTR_2020 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.

Additional information about the data sources (EBM 2020 and GISCO COUNTRIES 2016), the attribute descriptions, data quality and additional details is provided in the document CNTR2020_GISCOWiki.pdf, a download from the GISCO wiki website.

Hierarchy level
Dataset
Source

Reference System Information

Reference System Information

Code
EPSG:4258

Metadata

Metadata identifier
99be015e-2b6e-4666-a732-8650039c5274

Language
English
Contact
Organisation Individual Electronic mail address Website Role

European Environment Agency

sdi@eea.europa.eu

Point of contact

Type of resource

Resource type
Dataset
Name

Service

Metadata linkage

https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/geonetwork/srv/api/records/99be015e-2b6e-4666-a732-8650039c5274

Date info (Creation)
2020-04-23T07:36:09Z
Date info (Revision)
2025-10-09T11:05:26.421482Z

Metadata standard

Title

INSPIRE Metadata Commission Regulation (EC) No 1205/2008

Edition

03.12.2008

 
 
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Spatial extent

Keywords

GEMET

European Commission administrative boundary boundary layer national boundary political geography world
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Administrative units
Spatial scope

Global


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