BalticSea:Countries

General Information

Additional Information

Metadata

Countries

Layer Info
Category	Management
Subcategory	Governance
Editable	No
Data type	Polygons
Types or Values
Denmark
Estonia
Finland
Germany
Latvia
Lithuania
Poland
Russia
Sweden

Description

Countries surrounding the Baltic Sea

MSP Challenge

The countries' layer symbolizes the land masses around the sea basin.

Information about each country can be viewed by clicking on the 'i' icon (see image below) on each country, this is information retrieved from wikipedia and other non-official sources as well as common knowledge.

Country information example for Baltic Sea

Data Source

Adapted from Natural Earth countries' and lakes' layers (version 4.0.0).

Original Title

To create this layer, two layers were used: "Admin 0 – Countries" and "Lakes + Reservoirs"

Description

The countries' layer distinguishes between metropolitan (homeland) and independent and semi-independent portions of sovereign states. Each country is coded with a world region that roughly follows the United Nations setup.

The lakes' layer includes natural and artificial lakes.

Creation Date

15 October 2017

Methodology

The source countries' layer was combined with the source lakes layer and the geometries were simplified. In the course of the simplification process some smaller areas (islands and lakes) were removed.