MapTiler Countries schema

The vector tile schema describes how the vector data is organized into different thematic layers and which attribute and values each layer contains. This is useful for writing a map style.

MapTiler Countries is a tileset that contains data about administrative divisions of a world based on countries and their territories.

List of features and IDs

Useful links with features for data joins.

cdn.maptiler.com/data/countries/administrative-level-0.csv
cdn.maptiler.com/data/countries/administrative-level-1.csv
cdn.maptiler.com/data/countries/administrative-level-2.csv
cdn.maptiler.com/data/countries/administrative-level-3.csv
cdn.maptiler.com/data/countries/postal-level-0.csv
cdn.maptiler.com/data/countries/postal-level-1-extra.csv
cdn.maptiler.com/data/countries/postal-level-1.csv

Explore the tileset in the interactive map viewer, check the date of the last update, use it as vector tiles, etc.

Inspect MapTiler Countries schema

Definition of layers

The MapTiler Countries tileset contains the following layers:

administrative #

Contains administrative polygon border.

Fields

gid

Unique ID for every polygon.

level

Unit level (0 - country 1 - state, kraj, federal state 2 - county, ORP 3 - minor civil divisions 4 - municipalities).

iso_a2

ISO A2 code of country.

code

Code of area (text, e.g. zip code)

name

Name of unit (subdivisions, county, state).

wikidata

Wikidata ID.

area

Area of unit (square kilometer).

continent

Continent name.

level_0

Name of country area (unit level - 0).

level_1

Name of state area(unit level - 1).

level_2

Name of county area (unit level - 2).

level_3

Name of minor civil divisions area (unit level - 3).

postal #

Contains postal polygon border.

Fields

gid

Unique ID for every polygon.

level

Unit level (0 - country 1 - state, kraj, federal state 2 - county, ORP 3 - minor civil divisions 4 - municipalities).

iso_a2

ISO A2 code of country.

code

Code of area (text, e.g. zip code)

name

Name of unit (subdivisions, county, state).

area

Area of unit (square kilometer)

level_0

Name of country area (unit level - 0).

level_1

Name of state area(unit level - 1).

level_2

Name of county area (unit level - 2).

level_3

Name of minor civil divisions area (unit level - 3).

License

With the use of this API, you must visibly credit these attributions:

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