African country boundaries

a sf object containing low resolution African country boundaries See data-raw/afrilearndata-creation.R for how the data object is created.

africountries

Format

Formal class 'sf'; 51 rows, 8 columns

  • name character vector country names

  • name_long character vector country names long

  • pop_est numeric estimated population

  • gdp_md_est numeric estimated gdp

  • lastcensus numeric year of last census

  • income_grp character vector income group

  • iso_a3 character vector ISO 3 letter country code

  • geometry sfc_MULTIPOLYGON

  • name_fr character vector French country names

  • name_pt character vector Portuguese country names

  • name_af character vector Afrikaans country names

  • name_sw character vector Swahili country names

Geographical coordinates WGS84 datum (CRS EPSG 4326)

Source

https://www.naturalearthdata.com/downloads/110m-cultural-vectors/

See also

https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/rnaturalearth/

Examples

if (requireNamespace("sf", quietly = TRUE)) {
  library(sf)
  data(africountries)
  # or
  filename <- system.file("extdata","africountries.shp", package="afrilearndata", mustWork=TRUE)
  africountries <- sf::read_sf(filename)#'
  plot(sf::st_geometry(africountries))
}