pygeoboundaries

A Python client for the geoboundaries API, providing country political administrative boundaries.

Installation

To do

Access administrative boundaries

Here's a basic example which shows you how to get Senegal boudaries in a geojson file.

from pygeoboundaries import get_adm

sen = get_adm(territory='Senegal', adm='ADM0')

You can pass a list into territory to retreive multiple countries' data

mli_sen = get_adm(['Senegal', 'Mali'], adm='ADM0')

You can then use geopandas to create a GeoDataFrame with the geojson you just got.

import geopandas as gpd
gdf = gpd.GeoDataFrame.from_features(mli_sen)

Or plot it directly with folium or any other mapping tool.

m = folium.Map(location=[15.3610,-5.5178], zoom_start=6)
folium.GeoJson(mli_sen).add_to(m)

Allowed values for territory:

• ISO 3166-1 (alpha3) : AFG, QAT, YEM, etc.
• ISO 3166-1 (alpha2) : AF, QA, YE, etc.
• Country name in any of the following languages : Arabic, Armenian, Basque, Bulgarian, Chinese (simplified), Chinese (traditional), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Ukrainian.

For more information, check out https://stefangabos.github.io/world_countries/ (the data source for ISO codes and countries names)

Allowed format forterritory:

• a single string : "Senegal", "SEN", "เซเนกัล"
• a list of strings : ["SEN", "Mali'], ["セネガル", "մալի"]

Allowed values for adm:

• 'ADM0' to 'ADM5' (if exists for specified country)
• int 0 to 5
• int -1 (returns the smallest available ADM level) For more information about ADM levels, check out https://www.geoboundaries.org/index.html