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Netherlands administrative boundaries

12 provinces and 342 municipalities, each with its official code, in GeoJSON, TopoJSON, GeoPackage, Shapefile, layered SVG, CSV and SQL.

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provinces
12
municipalities
342
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Outline of the Netherlands

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.

North Holland: its municipalities, coloured by area, among the neighbouring provinces.

What is in the package

Levels and identifiers

LevelEntitiesIdentifier
country1NL
provinces12NL-P-<official code>
municipalities342NL-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. The history lists 940 suppressed municipalities with their successor.

Formats and scales

Format full 100m 1km 10km light
GeoJSON 1.1 MB 941 KB 240 KB 10 KB 296 KB
TopoJSON 350 KB 287 KB 135 KB 7 KB 213 KB
Shapefile 931 KB 790 KB 192 KB 9 KB 253 KB
SVG - 977 KB 239 KB 10 KB 316 KB
  • full: the boundaries as published by the source.
  • 100m: simplified within 100 m and coherent: municipalities and provinces 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 provinces only: small maps and maps of many countries.
  • At the borders with the neighbouring countries (Belgium and Germany) the 100m, 1km and 10km boundaries share the same vertices as in their packages, so the maps fit without gaps or overlaps.
  • light: country and provinces 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/nl.gpkg (3.1 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 (949 KB each). It creates one table with every entity of every level, its 100m boundary in WGS84 and its indexes.
  • JSON: data/json/tree.json (26 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 12 The provinces: 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 342 The municipalities: 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 355 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 445 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 1,804 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 940 The suppressed municipalities 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

Sources and licenses

The package is a derived work of the official datasets below; their publishers do not endorse it. What you may do with it is in the license of the packages.

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.geojson121 KB
data/geojson/100m/municipalities.geojson637 KB
data/geojson/100m/provinces.geojson183 KB
data/geojson/10km/country.geojson3 KB
data/geojson/10km/provinces.geojson7 KB
data/geojson/1km/country.geojson19 KB
data/geojson/1km/municipalities.geojson186 KB
data/geojson/1km/provinces.geojson34 KB
data/geojson/full/municipalities.geojson848 KB
data/geojson/full/provinces.geojson259 KB
data/geojson/light/country.geojson37 KB
data/geojson/light/provinces.geojson259 KB
data/geopackage/nl.gpkg3.1 MB
data/json/tree.json26 KB
data/shapefile/100m/country.cpg0 KB
data/shapefile/100m/country.dbf0 KB
data/shapefile/100m/country.prj0 KB
data/shapefile/100m/country.shp104 KB
data/shapefile/100m/country.shx0 KB
data/shapefile/100m/municipalities.cpg0 KB
data/shapefile/100m/municipalities.dbf29 KB
data/shapefile/100m/municipalities.prj0 KB
data/shapefile/100m/municipalities.shp498 KB
data/shapefile/100m/municipalities.shx3 KB
data/shapefile/100m/provinces.cpg0 KB
data/shapefile/100m/provinces.dbf1 KB
data/shapefile/100m/provinces.prj0 KB
data/shapefile/100m/provinces.shp155 KB
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.shp2 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.shp5 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.shp16 KB
data/shapefile/1km/country.shx0 KB
data/shapefile/1km/municipalities.cpg0 KB
data/shapefile/1km/municipalities.dbf29 KB
data/shapefile/1km/municipalities.prj0 KB
data/shapefile/1km/municipalities.shp114 KB
data/shapefile/1km/municipalities.shx3 KB
data/shapefile/1km/provinces.cpg0 KB
data/shapefile/1km/provinces.dbf1 KB
data/shapefile/1km/provinces.prj0 KB
data/shapefile/1km/provinces.shp28 KB
data/shapefile/1km/provinces.shx0 KB
data/shapefile/full/municipalities.cpg0 KB
data/shapefile/full/municipalities.dbf29 KB
data/shapefile/full/municipalities.prj0 KB
data/shapefile/full/municipalities.shp678 KB
data/shapefile/full/municipalities.shx3 KB
data/shapefile/full/provinces.cpg0 KB
data/shapefile/full/provinces.dbf1 KB
data/shapefile/full/provinces.prj0 KB
data/shapefile/full/provinces.shp219 KB
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.shp219 KB
data/shapefile/light/provinces.shx0 KB
data/topojson/100m/nl.topojson287 KB
data/topojson/10km/nl.topojson7 KB
data/topojson/1km/nl.topojson135 KB
data/topojson/full/nl.topojson350 KB
data/topojson/light/nl.topojson213 KB
examples/choropleth-svg.html108 KB
examples/drill-down-d3.html97 KB
examples/leaflet-geojson.html262 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.html192 KB
flags/NL.svg0 KB
sql/mysql.sql957 KB
sql/postgis.sql949 KB
sql/sqlserver.sql958 KB
svg/100m/layers.svg523 KB
svg/100m/municipalities.svg350 KB
svg/100m/provinces.svg104 KB
svg/10km/layers.svg6 KB
svg/10km/provinces.svg4 KB
svg/1km/layers.svg125 KB
svg/1km/municipalities.svg94 KB
svg/1km/provinces.svg20 KB
svg/light/layers.svg168 KB
svg/light/provinces.svg147 KB
tables/changes.csv0 KB
tables/codes.csv18 KB
tables/country.csv0 KB
tables/history.csv33 KB
tables/municipalities.csv67 KB
tables/names.csv28 KB
tables/neighbours.csv72 KB
tables/provinces.csv2 KB

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