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Australia administrative boundaries

9 states and territories and 548 local government areas, each with its official code, in GeoJSON, TopoJSON, GeoPackage, Shapefile, layered SVG, CSV and SQL.

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states and territories
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548
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Outline of Australia

One of the examples in the package

A layered SVG coloured from a table with a few lines of plain JavaScript: every entity is a path whose id is its official code. The page shows a part of the country: the two levels share the same borders, so they fit without gaps. The package has every entity of every level.

Victoria: its local government areas, coloured by area, among the neighbouring states.

What is in the package

Levels and identifiers

LevelEntitiesIdentifier
country1AU
states and territories9AU-P-<official code>
local government areas548AU-M-<official code>

Every entity has the same identifier in every file: it is the feature id in GeoJSON and TopoJSON, the id of the path in SVG and the id column of the tables.

Formats and scales

Format full 100m 1km 10km light
GeoJSON 109.4 MB 15.6 MB 1.9 MB 41 KB 686 KB
TopoJSON 19.5 MB 3.1 MB 575 KB 16 KB 454 KB
Shapefile 80.6 MB 11.5 MB 1.4 MB 31 KB 506 KB
SVG - 13.1 MB 1.6 MB 31 KB 635 KB
  • full: the boundaries as published by the source.
  • 100m: simplified within 100 m and coherent: local government areas and states and territories share exactly the same border vertices.
  • 1km: simplified within 1 km and coherent like 100m, every level: the whole country on a web map.
  • 10km: simplified within 10 km and coherent, country and states and territories only: small maps and maps of many countries.
  • light: country and states and territories only, each level simplified on its own to a small file.
  • GeoJSON: one FeatureCollection per level, WGS84. TopoJSON: all the levels in one topology, shared borders are shared arcs.
  • GeoPackage: data/geopackage/au.gpkg (96.1 MB), one file for QGIS and ArcGIS with every level at every scale as a layer (municipalities_100m) with its spatial index, and every table of the package.
  • Shapefile: one per level and scale, WGS84, UTF-8; the columns longer than ten characters are shortened (region, province, abbrev).
  • SVG: one file per level and one with every level as a layer, in a Lambert conformal conic projection; they open as layers in Illustrator, Figma and Inkscape.
  • SQL: a script for PostGIS, one for MySQL 8 and one for SQL Server (15.6 MB each). It creates one table with every entity of every level, its 100m boundary in WGS84 and its indexes.
  • JSON: data/json/tree.json (46 KB), the levels nested and sorted by name, without boundaries: what the select boxes of a form need.

Tables

CSV, UTF-8. Names in EN, IT, ES, FR, DE, NL, PT, besides the official one.

FileRowsContent
tables/country.csv 1 The country: names, population, bounding box, centre and label point.
code, name, population, min_lat, min_lng, max_lat, max_lng, center_lat, center_lng, label_lat, label_lng, id, name_en, name_it, name_es, name_fr, name_de, name_nl, name_pt
tables/provinces.csv 9 The states and territories: official code, abbreviation, the code of the parent, names, area, population, bounding box, centre and label point.
code, name, abbreviation, region_code, area_km2, population, min_lat, min_lng, max_lat, max_lng, center_lat, center_lng, label_lat, label_lng, id, name_en, name_it, name_es, name_fr, name_de, name_nl, name_pt
tables/municipalities.csv 548 The local government areas: official code, the codes of the parents, names, area, population, elevation in metres (of the centre, or lowest and highest point, as the official source gives it), bounding box, centre and label point.
code, name, province_code, province_abbreviation, region_code, cadastral_code, chief_town, area_km2, population, elevation, elevation_min, elevation_max, elevation_mean, min_lat, min_lng, max_lat, max_lng, center_lat, center_lng, label_lat, label_lng, id, name_en, name_it, name_es, name_fr, name_de, name_nl, name_pt
tables/codes.csv 558 Every entity in other datasets, as Wikidata declares it: the Wikidata item, ISO 3166-2, GeoNames and the OpenStreetMap relation.
id, level, code, wikidata, iso_3166_2, geonames, osm_relation
tables/names.csv 1,904 Every name an entity is written with (official, each side of a bilingual name, translated), without accents and as a slug: to match a file that has names and no codes.
id, level, name, name_ascii, slug, kind
tables/neighbours.csv 2,736 The entities of the same level that share a border, both ways, with the length of the shared border in km.
level, id, neighbour_id, shared_border_km
tables/history.csv 0 The suppressed local government areas with the one that replaced them, for archives that still have the old codes; no rows where the official source gives no history.
code, name, province_code, replaced_by_code, replaced_by_name
tables/changes.csv 0 What changed from one edition of the package to the next, one row per entity added, removed, renamed, moved or with a new boundary: the same as CHANGELOG.md.
edition, date, level, id, name, change, before, after

Files

All the 114 files of the package, with their size.

ATTRIBUTION.md2 KB
CHANGELOG.md0 KB
LICENSE.md2 KB
README.md11 KB
data/geojson/100m/country.geojson3.4 MB
data/geojson/100m/municipalities.geojson8.5 MB
data/geojson/100m/provinces.geojson3.8 MB
data/geojson/10km/country.geojson18 KB
data/geojson/10km/provinces.geojson23 KB
data/geojson/1km/country.geojson303 KB
data/geojson/1km/municipalities.geojson1.2 MB
data/geojson/1km/provinces.geojson344 KB
data/geojson/full/municipalities.geojson71.3 MB
data/geojson/full/provinces.geojson38.1 MB
data/geojson/light/country.geojson43 KB
data/geojson/light/provinces.geojson643 KB
data/geopackage/au.gpkg96.1 MB
data/json/tree.json46 KB
data/shapefile/100m/country.cpg0 KB
data/shapefile/100m/country.dbf0 KB
data/shapefile/100m/country.prj0 KB
data/shapefile/100m/country.shp2.5 MB
data/shapefile/100m/country.shx0 KB
data/shapefile/100m/municipalities.cpg0 KB
data/shapefile/100m/municipalities.dbf58 KB
data/shapefile/100m/municipalities.prj0 KB
data/shapefile/100m/municipalities.shp6.2 MB
data/shapefile/100m/municipalities.shx4 KB
data/shapefile/100m/provinces.cpg0 KB
data/shapefile/100m/provinces.dbf1 KB
data/shapefile/100m/provinces.prj0 KB
data/shapefile/100m/provinces.shp2.8 MB
data/shapefile/100m/provinces.shx0 KB
data/shapefile/10km/country.cpg0 KB
data/shapefile/10km/country.dbf0 KB
data/shapefile/10km/country.prj0 KB
data/shapefile/10km/country.shp13 KB
data/shapefile/10km/country.shx0 KB
data/shapefile/10km/provinces.cpg0 KB
data/shapefile/10km/provinces.dbf1 KB
data/shapefile/10km/provinces.prj0 KB
data/shapefile/10km/provinces.shp16 KB
data/shapefile/10km/provinces.shx0 KB
data/shapefile/1km/country.cpg0 KB
data/shapefile/1km/country.dbf0 KB
data/shapefile/1km/country.prj0 KB
data/shapefile/1km/country.shp223 KB
data/shapefile/1km/country.shx0 KB
data/shapefile/1km/municipalities.cpg0 KB
data/shapefile/1km/municipalities.dbf58 KB
data/shapefile/1km/municipalities.prj0 KB
data/shapefile/1km/municipalities.shp877 KB
data/shapefile/1km/municipalities.shx4 KB
data/shapefile/1km/provinces.cpg0 KB
data/shapefile/1km/provinces.dbf1 KB
data/shapefile/1km/provinces.prj0 KB
data/shapefile/1km/provinces.shp252 KB
data/shapefile/1km/provinces.shx0 KB
data/shapefile/full/municipalities.cpg0 KB
data/shapefile/full/municipalities.dbf58 KB
data/shapefile/full/municipalities.prj0 KB
data/shapefile/full/municipalities.shp52.5 MB
data/shapefile/full/municipalities.shx4 KB
data/shapefile/full/provinces.cpg0 KB
data/shapefile/full/provinces.dbf1 KB
data/shapefile/full/provinces.prj0 KB
data/shapefile/full/provinces.shp28.1 MB
data/shapefile/full/provinces.shx0 KB
data/shapefile/light/country.cpg0 KB
data/shapefile/light/country.dbf0 KB
data/shapefile/light/country.prj0 KB
data/shapefile/light/country.shp32 KB
data/shapefile/light/country.shx0 KB
data/shapefile/light/provinces.cpg0 KB
data/shapefile/light/provinces.dbf1 KB
data/shapefile/light/provinces.prj0 KB
data/shapefile/light/provinces.shp473 KB
data/shapefile/light/provinces.shx0 KB
data/topojson/100m/au.topojson3.1 MB
data/topojson/10km/au.topojson16 KB
data/topojson/1km/au.topojson575 KB
data/topojson/full/au.topojson19.5 MB
data/topojson/light/au.topojson454 KB
examples/choropleth-svg.html1.8 MB
examples/drill-down-d3.html1.8 MB
examples/leaflet-geojson.html646 KB
examples/lib/LICENSES.md3 KB
examples/lib/d3.min.js273 KB
examples/lib/leaflet.css14 KB
examples/lib/leaflet.js144 KB
examples/lib/topojson-client.min.js7 KB
examples/point-lookup.html3.8 MB
flags/AU.svg2 KB
sql/mysql.sql15.6 MB
sql/postgis.sql15.6 MB
sql/sqlserver.sql15.6 MB
svg/100m/layers.svg7.3 MB
svg/100m/municipalities.svg4.0 MB
svg/100m/provinces.svg1.8 MB
svg/10km/layers.svg20 KB
svg/10km/provinces.svg11 KB
svg/1km/layers.svg916 KB
svg/1km/municipalities.svg608 KB
svg/1km/provinces.svg164 KB
svg/light/layers.svg328 KB
svg/light/provinces.svg307 KB
tables/changes.csv0 KB
tables/codes.csv31 KB
tables/country.csv0 KB
tables/history.csv0 KB
tables/municipalities.csv129 KB
tables/names.csv156 KB
tables/neighbours.csv117 KB
tables/provinces.csv2 KB

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