Get natural earth world state (admin level 1) polygons

returns state polygons (administrative level 1) for specified countries

Usage

ne_states(
  country = NULL,
  geounit = NULL,
  iso_a2 = NULL,
  spdf = NULL,
  returnclass = c("sp", "sf")
)

Arguments

country

a character vector of country names.

geounit

a character vector of geounit names.

iso_a2

a character vector of iso_a2 country codes

spdf

an optional alternative states map

returnclass

'sp' default or 'sf' for Simple Features

Value

SpatialPolygonsDataFrame or sf

Examples

# comparing using country and geounit to filter
if (requireNamespace("rnaturalearthhires")) {
  spdf_france_country <- ne_states(country = "france")
  spdf_france_geounit <- ne_states(geounit = "france")

  if (require(sp)) {
    plot(spdf_france_country)
    plot(spdf_france_geounit)

    plot(ne_states(country = "united kingdom"))
    plot(ne_states(geounit = "england"))
  }
}
#> Loading required namespace: rnaturalearthhires