World Countries Geodatabase
Citation
Flanders Marine Institute (2020). World Countries Geodatabase. https://marineinfo.org/doc/dataset/8873
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 This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.Description
This dataset is the World Countries 2014 database from ESRI (data from DeLorme, 2014), adapted to be consistent with the Maritime Boundaries v11 dataset (Flanders Marine Institute, 2019). The original World Countries database is redistributable with proper metadata and source/copyright attribution (esri.com). The Maritime Boundaries dataset is available under a CC-BY license at http://marineregions.org. Lineage
Added 3-digit ISO country codes, UN M49 codes and MRGIDs, added two special areas (Western Sahara, Hala'ib Triangle), removed Liancourt Rocks, aligned attributes with Maritime Boundaries v11 dataset Scope Themes: Boundaries, Geography Keywords: Terrestrial, Administrative units, Boundaries, Countries, Geoscientific Information, Global, World Geographical coverage World [Marine Regions] Contributors
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee (VLIZ), more, data owner, data creator, data manager, database developer
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Other relation: Maritime Boundaries Geodatabase: Maritime Boundaries and Exclusive Economic Zones (200NM), version 11, more Project
MRG: Marine Regions, towards a standard for georeferenced marine names, more
Dataset status: Completed
Data type: GIS maps
Metadatarecord created: 2025-06-05
Information last updated: 2025-06-05
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