Global GIS : world administrative units, 2002

Description:

This datalayer is a polygon coverage representing First-Order Administrative Areas worldwide (as they existed in 2002) and was originally produced by ESRI for the Global GIS database. Attribute data includes information on administrative region names, type, size (population) and country of location. The USGS Global GIS database contains a wealth of USGS and other public domain data, including global coverages of elevation, landcover, seismicity, and resources of minerals and energy at a nominal scale of 1:1 million. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and The American Geological Institute (AGI) announced a cooperative agreement that will focus on making the USGS Global Geographic Information System (GIS) database readily available to educators and the general public in the form of a DVD based world atlas.

Creator:

Environmental Systems Research Institute (Redlands, Calif.), Geological Survey (U.S), and American Geological Institute

Publisher:

American Geological Institute

Provider:

Harvard

Collection:

Global GIS : global coverage and U.S. Geological Survey digital data series

Resource Class:

Datasets

Resource Type:

Polygon data

Subject:

Administrative and political divisions, Boundaries, and boundaries

Temporal Coverage:

2002

Date Issued:

2003

Spatial Coverage:

Earth, Northern Hemisphere, Southern Hemisphere, Eastern Hemisphere, Western Hemisphere, Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, and South America

Access Rights:

Restricted

Format:

Shapefile