# World Country and Territory Boundaries

Global country and territory polygons with names, identifiers and source boundary-viewpoint attributes.

## Contents

| File | Records | Format |
|---|---:|---|
| boundaries.geojson | 258 | GeoJSON FeatureCollection |

The download contains the populated data, a field dictionary, source metadata, reuse terms, a change log and file digests. It contains no scripts, libraries, executables or conversion tools.

## Coverage

Every feature and every geometry from Natural Earth 1:10 million admin-0 countries. Selected attributes are documented here; political viewpoint attributes are preserved. The scale is 1:10 million, not 10-metre accuracy. Source borders and labels are representations, not legal determinations. Coordinates are WGS84 longitude, latitude.

## Sources and dates

- [Natural Earth](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvkelso/natural-earth-vector/ca96624a56bd078437bca8184e78163e5039ad19/geojson/ne_10m_admin_0_countries.geojson): ca96624a56bd078437bca8184e78163e5039ad19. Retrieved 2026-09-08T02:02:43.550018+00:00.

## Read the data

JSON tables are arrays of records. GeoJSON files are FeatureCollections, with data fields under each feature’s properties. `data-dictionary.json` defines the fields, units, nulls and observed types. `metadata.json` supplies primary keys and source hashes. Preserve identifiers as text and distinguish missing values from zero.

GeoJSON coordinates are WGS84 in longitude, latitude order. Feature IDs are also present in properties.id.

## Example record

This is an actual record from the data. For map layers, the example shows properties; the downloaded GeoJSON also contains the complete geometry.

```json
{
  "id": "1159320845",
  "name": "Indonesia",
  "long_name": "Indonesia",
  "administration": "Indonesia",
  "sovereign_name": "Indonesia",
  "feature_type": "Sovereign country",
  "iso_alpha2": "ID",
  "iso_alpha3": "IDN",
  "iso_numeric": "360",
  "natural_earth_admin_code": "IDN",
  "continent": "Asia",
  "un_region": "Asia",
  "un_subregion": "South-Eastern Asia",
  "boundary_name": "Indonesia",
  "boundary_group": null,
  "boundary_note": null,
  "admin_note": null,
  "boundary_differs": 0,
  "viewpoint_admin_codes": {
    "US": "IDN",
    "FR": "IDN",
    "RU": "IDN",
    "ES": "IDN",
    "CN": "IDN",
    "TW": "IDN",
    "IN": "IDN",
    "NP": "IDN",
    "PK": "IDN",
    "DE": "IDN",
    "GB": "IDN",
    "BR": "IDN",
    "IL": "IDN",
    "PS": "IDN",
    "SA": "IDN",
    "EG": "IDN",
    "MA": "IDN",
    "PT": "IDN",
    "AR": "IDN",
    "JP": "IDN",
    "KO": "IDN",
    "VN": "IDN",
    "TR": "IDN",
    "ID": "IDN",
    "PL": "IDN",
    "GR": "IDN",
    "IT": "IDN",
    "NL": "IDN",
    "SE": "IDN",
    "BD": "IDN",
    "UA": "IDN",
    "UN": -99,
    "WB": -99
  },
  "wikidata_id": "Q252",
  "names": {
    "len": 9,
    "ar": "إندونيسيا",
    "bn": "ইন্দোনেশিয়া",
    "de": "Indonesien",
    "en": "Indonesia",
    "es": "Indonesia",
    "fa": "اندونزی",
    "fr": "Indonésie",
    "el": "Ινδονησία",
    "he": "אינדונזיה",
    "hi": "इंडोनेशिया",
    "hu": "Indonézia",
    "id": "Indonesia",
    "it": "Indonesia",
    "ja": "インドネシア",
    "ko": "인도네시아",
    "nl": "Indonesië",
    "pl": "Indonezja",
    "pt": "Indonésia",
    "ru": "Индонезия",
    "sv": "Indonesien",
    "tr": "Endonezya",
    "uk": "Індонезія",
    "ur": "انڈونیشیا",
    "vi": "Indonesia",
    "zh": "印度尼西亚",
    "zht": "印度尼西亞"
  }
}
```

## Reuse terms

Public domain. Made with Natural Earth. Authors and contributors: Natural Earth, Tom Patterson, Nathaniel Vaughn Kelso and contributors.

[Publisher terms](https://www.naturalearthdata.com/about/terms-of-use/). License notices are included where supplied.

## Tracking changes

Compare feature IDs, geometries, source identifiers and viewpoint attributes when Natural Earth changes.

This publication is a snapshot. No automatic refresh is scheduled. New imports must preserve their source version, retrieval date and hashes, then publish a new Arcomm revision.

## Download

[Download the file](/files/8f82a376e4892b0dd7480544c767da222162fb0f9eaca50c905433648050f8cb)

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## Revisions

[Revision history](/agent/docs/world-country-boundaries/history)