ne_states function

Get natural earth world state (admin level 1) polygons

returns state polygons (administrative level 1) for specified countries

ne_states(
  country = NULL,
  geounit = NULL,
  iso_a2 = NULL,
  spat_object = NULL,
  returnclass = c("sf", "sv")
)

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
• spat_object: an optional alternative states map
• returnclass: A string determining the spatial object to return. Either "sf" for for simple feature (from sf, the default) or "sv" for a SpatVector (from terra).

Returns

An object of class sf for simple feature (from sf, the default) or SpatVector (from terra).

Details

Note that the filename of the requested object will be returned if load = FALSE.

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")

  plot(spdf_france_country)
  plot(spdf_france_geounit)

  plot(ne_states(country = "united kingdom"))
  plot(ne_states(geounit = "england"))
}

See Also

ne_load, pre-downloaded data are available using ne_countries, ne_states. Other geographic data are available in the raster package : getData.