This dataset contains a list of 256 World countries (geographic entities) according to the GADM database https://gadm.org.
world_countriesA data.frame with 256 rows (geographic entities, official
(or non official) countries) and the 10 following variables:
the ISO 3166 alpha 2 code of the country
the ISO 3166 alpha 3 code of the country
the ISO 3166 numeric code of the country
the name of the country (geographic entity)
the name of recognized country (by the UN)
the formal name of the geographic entity
the regular expression used to detect the entity in a full text
the name of the continent where the entity is located
the name of the UN region where the entity is located
the name of the UN subregion where the entity is located
data("world_countries")
head(world_countries)
#> iso_alpha2 iso_alpha3 iso_num geographic_entity sovereignty
#> 1 AF AFG 4 Afghanistan Afghanistan
#> 2 <NA> XAD NA Akrotiri and Dhekelia United Kingdom
#> 3 AX ALA 248 Åland Islands Finland
#> 4 AL ALB 8 Albania Albania
#> 5 DZ DZA 12 Algeria Algeria
#> 6 AS ASM 16 American Samoa United States of America
#> formal_name parser continent
#> 1 Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan afghanistan Asia
#> 2 Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia akrotiri|dhekelia Asia
#> 3 Åland Islands åland|aland Europe
#> 4 Republic of Albania albania Europe
#> 5 People's Democratic Republic of Algeria algeria Africa
#> 6 American Samoa american samoa Oceania
#> un_region un_subregion
#> 1 Asia Southern Asia
#> 2 Asia Western Asia
#> 3 Europe Northern Europe
#> 4 Europe Southern Europe
#> 5 Africa Northern Africa
#> 6 Oceania Polynesia