GISCO - Administrative units 2016 at country level, Jul. 2018

This data set contains the administrative boundaries at country level of the world and is based on the geometry from EBM v12.x. of EuroGeographics for the members of Eurogeographics, the Global Administrative Units Layer (2015) 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 (polygon) at 100k (CNTR_RG_100K_2016 in the GISCO database) 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_2016.xml) is provided together with the dataset.

The public dataset is available for download on http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/cache/GISCO/distribution/v2/countries/countries-2016-files.html

Simple

Identification info

Date (Creation)
2018-05-01
Date (Publication)
2018-05-23
Citation identifier
eurostat_v_4258_100_k_gisco-admin-boundaries_i_2016_V01_r00

Status
Superseded
Spatial representation type
Vector

Spatial resolution

Equivalent scale

Denominator
100000
Topic category
  • Boundaries

Extent

N
S
E
W




Temporal extent

Time position
2017-01-01
Maintenance and update frequency
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

  • Administrative units

GEMET

  • administrative boundary

Continents, countries, sea regions of the world.

  • World

Spatial scope

Resource constraints

Use limitation

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

(e) intellectual property rights

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Distribution Information

Distribution format

  • Spatialite

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 v12.x. of EuroGeographics for the members of Eurogeographics, the Global Administrative Units Layer (2015) 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_2016, NUTS_2016, CNTR_2016, EEZ_2016 and COAS_2016, are fully coherent and compliant. Each scale level in the CNTR_2016 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 reThe dataset is based on the geometry from EBM v12.x. of EuroGeographics for the members of Eurogeographics, the Global Administrative Units Layer (2015) 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_2016, NUTS_2016, CNTR_2016, EEZ_2016 and COAS_2016, 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.gion 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.

Hierarchy level
Dataset
Source

Reference System Information

Reference System Information

Code
EPSG:4258

Metadata

Metadata identifier
aa9b407c-992f-4107-be3e-b7d14b57d6d9

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/aa9b407c-992f-4107-be3e-b7d14b57d6d9

Date info (Creation)
2018-07-12T13:09:23Z
Date info (Revision)
2025-10-09T11:07:58.707504Z

Metadata standard

Title

INSPIRE Metadata Commission Regulation (EC) No 1205/2008

Edition

03.12.2008

 
 
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Spatial extent

Keywords

GEMET

administrative boundary
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Administrative units
Spatial scope

Global


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