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I do not seem to be able to find a free shapefile of the European countries. This is the kind of map I am looking to populate with my own data using ESRI ArcGIS:
The Eurostat website only seems to have a shapefile of the region with country boundaries that also includes the NUTS divisions. Natural Earth shapefiles only seem to be available for the entire world, not for regions like Europe.
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You can download the 'official' EU administrative/statistical units from Eurostat's GISCO service. The vector layers are available as ESRI Shapefiles and Personal GDBs, at different resolutions from here.
Note, in order to extract the country level polygons as below, you will need to extract all features based on the following query
dmcidmciSTAT_LEVL_ = 1
from the Shapefile NUTS_RS_01M_2013.shp
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Natural Earth is a great source for free data, including country and state borders, at a variety of scales. You would just need to select European countries using the attribute table.
Dùn CaanDùn Caan
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You can download world countries from ArcGIS Online and then open the attribute table, select by attribute (
PolyGeo♦CONTINENT = 'Europe'
) and then right click to export Europe as a new layer. Presumably you can do the same with other global data sets you've found.55.5k1717 gold badges8888 silver badges262262 bronze badges
MooseGirlMooseGirl
A GRASS-GIS way:
get the NUTS 2013 ESRI Shapefile
unzip
and, if not existing, create a Location based on EPSG 3035
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Else skip the next command and enter in a Location based on the wanted spatial reference system.
Then, navigate to
and import the vector map
extract all STAT_LEVL_=0 to a new map
and finally, dissolve to get country boundaries
Voila,
This map contains the NUTS_ID
So, the following CSV might be useful for the ones who need to join-in the ISO3166-1-alpha3 country codes
Nikos AlexandrisNikos Alexandris
This (http://www.diva-gis.org/gdata) site is great for getting administrative data from all over the world including Europe. You can get data at different administrative levels as well (e.g., Country, State, County).
jwxjwx
Shape files for European countries are available from Eurostat. Here is a link to an example of how to create a map with it.
llamallama
Probably a bit late but there's this resource which is free and supports arcGIS - shows all the countries in the world - http://www.orrbodies.com/resource/world-250k-coastlinepolitical-map/
Ben MelvilleBen Melville