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State and province level boundaries from Natural Earth for Canada, United States, Greenland, and Saint Pierre and Miquelon. Useful for adding coastline context to spatial plots of marine data in the Northwest Atlantic region.

Usage

data(coastline)

Format

An sf object with 72 features and 4 fields:

admin

Character. Country name (e.g., "Canada", "United States of America")

name_en

Character. State/province name in English

name_fr

Character. State/province name in French

geometry

sfc_MULTIPOLYGON. Spatial geometry of the state/province boundaries

Source

Natural Earth Data via rnaturalearth package, see data-raw/coastline/coastline.R

Details

This dataset includes state/province boundaries for:

  • Canada (CA) - All provinces and territories

  • United States (US) - States bordering Atlantic coast

  • Greenland (GL)

  • Saint Pierre and Miquelon (PM)

The data is in WGS 84 coordinate reference system (EPSG:4326) and is suitable for use with ggplot2 and sf plotting functions.

Author

marea/DFO