Title
Title: | Administrative Boundaries - First Level (ESRI)
Subtitle: | Geospatial
Filename: | admin98
General Description
Abstract: | The sub Country Administrative Units 1998 GeoDataset represents a small-scale political map of the world. The data are generalized and were designed for display at scales to about 1:10,000,000. The data were generalized from ESRI's ArcWorld Supplement Map data. Country codes are from U.S. Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) version 10-4.
Purpose: | World sub Country Administrative Units represent 2605 first level administrative units such as states and provinces with 14 descriptive fields.
Units: | -----
GEO Theme: | Land | GEO Data Category: | Boundaries
Type: | Maps and Graphics | Subtype: | -----
Language: | English
Status: | Complete | Maintenance: | Irregular
Keywords
GEMET Theme: | Geography
Free Keywords: | Administrative boundaries
Online Reference
URL: | No reference for download
File Format: | ArcView Shapefile
Spatial Reference
Coverage: | World
Coordinates: |
| North 90 |
West -180 |  | 180 East
| -90 South |
Region: | World |  | Subregion: | ----- |  | Data Set Type: | Geospatial |
Temporal Reference
Covered Time: | 1998
Responsability
Person: | ESRI | Organization: | Environmental Systems Research Instiute
Address: | 380 New York Street |  |
Postal Code: | 92373-8100 | City: | Redlands
State: | CA | Country: | USA
Phone: | 909-793-2853 | Fax: | 909-793-5953
Email: | info@esri.com |  |
Publisher: | ESRI | Publ. Place: | Redlands
|  | Publ. Year: | 1998
Data Source: | ESRI | Data Provider: | ESRI
Copyright: | ESRI | User Constr.: | Public
Metadata Information
Person: | Gregory Giuliani | Organization: | UNEP/DEWA/GRID-Geneva
Address: | 11, Chemin des Anemones |  |
Postal Code: | 1219 | City: | Chatelaine
State: | Geneva | Country: | Switzerland
Phone: | +41 22 917 82 94 | Fax: | +41 22 917 80 29
Email: | geo@grid.unep.ch |  |
Date: | 20020409 |  |
GIS Data Info
Projection: | Geographic |  |
Cell Size: | ----- | Min.Value: | -----
Number of rows: | ----- | Max.Value: | -----
Number of columns: | ----- | Mean: | -----
Data Format: | Map | Standard Deviation: | -----
Xmin: | 158 | Xmax: | 178
Ymin: | 10 | Ymax: | 27
Definitions: | -----
Notes: | Desritpive fields: Fips_admin -- The two-letter, two-number FIPS code for a first-level administrative unit from the United States Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) coding scheme. Example: The code for the state of Chiapas, Mexico, is MX05, where MX is Mexico and 05 is the number assigned to Chiapas. For countries without administrative units, this field contains only the two-letter country code. (String) Gmi_admin -- The three -letter country code combined with a three-letter code for a first-level administrative unit created by Global Mapping International. (String) Admin_Name -- The name of a first-level administrative unit. Example: Hawaii. (String) Fips_cntry -- The two-letter country code from the United States Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) coding scheme. Example: KS for the Republic of Korea. (String) Gmi_cntry -- The three -letter country code from Global Mapping International. Example: The code for the United Kingdom is GBR. (String) Cntry_Name -- The country name. These names are shortened and not necessarily official. Example: Turkey (the official name is Republic of Turkey) (String) Region -- The name of the world region. The data is grouped into 25 commonly recognized world regions. These provide an easy means of selecting a small multicountry area for display or study. Example: Eastern Africa. (String) Continent -- The continent name. Example: South America. (String) Pop_admin -- The population of a first level administrative unit. (Source: NCGIA. The Global Demography Project. Currency: 1994 estimated population.) This field contains -99999 for countries for which population figures were unavailable. (Numeric) Sqkm_admin -- The total area of a first level administrative unit in square kilometers (excluding maritime areas). (Numeric) Sqmi_admin -- The total area of a first level administrative unit in square miles (excluding maritime areas). (Numeric) Type_eng -- The English name for the type of administrative unit. Examples: State, Province, Prefecture. (String) Type_loc -- The local name for the type of administrative unit. Examples: Estado, Bundesland. (String) Color_map -- Numbers (1 - 8) allows the country to be shaded unique from its neighbors.
Statistics Data Info
Aggregation method
Mehtod: | None | Weight factor: | -----
Comments: | -----
Interpolations/Extrapolations
Interpolations: | None
Extrapolations: | None
Method: | Other
Comments: | -----
Calculated pre 1991-1992 relative country share
Former USSR: | None
Former Yugoslavia SFR: | None
Former Czechoslovakia: | None
Former Ethiopia: | None
Comments: | -----
General comments
Country notes: | -----
Definitions: | -----
Comments: | -----