GIS data sources for every country
Spin the globe and pick a territory to see where to get its boundaries, elevation, imagery, census statistics and more. Every link is checked automatically and each source lists its licence and formats.
237 countries and territories, 849 national sources and 31 global datasets. 747 links verified on .
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237 countries and territories
Africa
- Algeria 3
- Angola 3
- Benin 3
- Botswana 3
- Burkina Faso 3
- Burundi 3
- Cabo Verde 3
- Cameroon 3
- Central African Republic 3
- Chad 3
- Comoros 1
- Côte d'Ivoire 3
- Democratic Republic of the Congo 2
- Djibouti 3
- Egypt 3
- Equatorial Guinea 3
- Eritrea 2
- Eswatini 3
- Ethiopia 3
- Gabon 3
- Ghana 3
- Guinea 3
- Guinea-Bissau 3
- Kenya 4
- Lesotho 3
- Liberia 3
- Libya 3
- Madagascar 3
- Malawi 3
- Mali 3
- Mauritania 3
- Mauritius 3
- Morocco 5
- Mozambique 3
- Namibia 3
- Niger 3
- Nigeria 5
- Republic of the Congo 3
- Rwanda 3
- Saint Helena 3
- São Tomé and Príncipe 3
- Senegal 3
- Seychelles 3
- Sierra Leone 3
- Somalia 2
- South Africa 6
- South Sudan 3
- Sudan 3
- Tanzania 3
- The Gambia 3
- Togo 3
- Tunisia 3
- Uganda 3
- Western Sahara 0
- Zambia 3
- Zimbabwe 3
Asia
- Afghanistan 2
- Armenia 3
- Azerbaijan 3
- Bahrain 3
- Bangladesh 4
- Bhutan 3
- British Indian Ocean Territory 0
- Brunei 2
- Cambodia 3
- China 7
- Cyprus 5
- Georgia 4
- Hong Kong 3
- India 8
- Indonesia 5
- Iran 3
- Iraq 3
- Israel 6
- Japan 9
- Jordan 3
- Kazakhstan 3
- Kuwait 3
- Kyrgyzstan 3
- Laos 3
- Lebanon 3
- Macao 1
- Malaysia 5
- Maldives 3
- Mongolia 3
- Myanmar 3
- Nepal 4
- North Korea 2
- Oman 3
- Pakistan 5
- Palestine 3
- Philippines 6
- Qatar 3
- Saudi Arabia 4
- Singapore 4
- South Korea 7
- Sri Lanka 4
- Syria 3
- Taiwan 4
- Tajikistan 3
- Thailand 5
- Timor-Leste 3
- Türkiye 5
- Turkmenistan 2
- United Arab Emirates 4
- Uzbekistan 3
- Vietnam 3
- Yemen 2
Europe
- Åland Islands 1
- Albania 4
- Andorra 3
- Austria 6
- Belarus 3
- Belgium 7
- Bosnia and Herzegovina 5
- Bulgaria 5
- Croatia 5
- Czechia 5
- Denmark 6
- Estonia 5
- Faroe Islands 3
- Finland 6
- France 10
- Germany 9
- Greece 6
- Guernsey 1
- Hungary 4
- Iceland 4
- Ireland 9
- Isle of Man 1
- Italy 8
- Jersey 1
- Kosovo 3
- Latvia 5
- Liechtenstein 4
- Lithuania 5
- Luxembourg 5
- Malta 4
- Moldova 4
- Monaco 3
- Montenegro 3
- Netherlands 8
- North Macedonia 3
- Norway 6
- Poland 5
- Portugal 6
- Romania 5
- Russia 4
- San Marino 2
- Serbia 6
- Slovakia 5
- Slovenia 5
- Spain 7
- Sweden 6
- Switzerland 6
- Ukraine 5
- United Kingdom 19
- Vatican City 1
North America
- Anguilla 2
- Antigua and Barbuda 1
- Aruba 2
- Bahamas 3
- Barbados 2
- Belize 3
- Bermuda 2
- British Virgin Islands 1
- Canada 7
- Cayman Islands 2
- Costa Rica 3
- Cuba 3
- Curaçao 2
- Dominica 1
- Dominican Republic 3
- El Salvador 3
- Greenland 3
- Grenada 1
- Guatemala 3
- Haiti 3
- Honduras 3
- Jamaica 3
- Mexico 6
- Montserrat 1
- Nicaragua 3
- Panama 3
- Puerto Rico 3
- Saint Barthélemy 1
- Saint Kitts and Nevis 1
- Saint Lucia 2
- Saint Martin 1
- Saint Pierre and Miquelon 0
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 1
- Sint Maarten 0
- Trinidad and Tobago 2
- Turks and Caicos Islands 2
- United States 23
- United States Virgin Islands 2
South America
Oceania
- American Samoa 1
- Australia 10
- Cook Islands 3
- Fiji 3
- French Polynesia 1
- Guam 2
- Kiribati 3
- Marshall Islands 5
- Micronesia 3
- Nauru 3
- New Caledonia 2
- New Zealand 7
- Niue 3
- Norfolk Island 0
- Northern Mariana Islands 2
- Palau 3
- Papua New Guinea 3
- Pitcairn Islands 1
- Samoa 3
- Solomon Islands 3
- Tonga 3
- Tuvalu 3
- Vanuatu 8
- Wallis and Futuna Islands 1
Antarctica
No countries match those filters.
Global datasets
Worldwide and continental layers that work for any territory: elevation, satellite imagery, land cover, population, OpenStreetMap and more.
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ECMWF (Copernicus) · Global
ERA5 reanalysis and other climate datasets with a Python API (cdsapi).
- Environment
Link checked · 2026-10-14
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European Space Agency / European Commission · Global
Official access to Sentinel-1, -2, -3 and -5P data, with STAC, openEO and S3 APIs.
- Imagery
- Elevation / DEM
- Land cover
Link checked · 2026-10-14
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ESA / Airbus (Copernicus) · Global
Global 30 m and 90 m digital surface model as Cloud Optimised GeoTIFFs on AWS. Used in our raster tutorials.
- Elevation / DEM
Link checked · 2026-10-14
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European Environment Agency · Europe
CORINE Land Cover, Urban Atlas, high-resolution layers and EU-DEM.
- Land cover
- Environment
- Elevation / DEM
Link checked · 2026-10-14
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Publications Office of the EU · Europe
The official portal for European open data.
- Open data portal
Link checked · 2026-10-14
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Google / World Resources Institute · Global
Near-real-time 10 m land-use/land-cover probabilities.
- Land cover
Link checked · 2026-10-14
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Element 84 · Global
Free STAC search over Sentinel-2 L2A, Landsat C2, Copernicus DEM and more on AWS. Used in our Lake Mead tutorial.
- Imagery
- Elevation / DEM
Link checked · 2026-10-14
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ESA WorldCover (opens in a new tab)
DownloadEuropean Space Agency · Global
10 m global land cover for 2020 and 2021 from Sentinel-1 and -2.
- Land cover
Link checked · 2026-10-14
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Eurostat GISCO (opens in a new tab)
DownloadEuropean Commission (Eurostat) · Europe
NUTS regions, LAU, countries and population grids for Europe.
- Boundaries & admin
- Census & statistics
Link checked · 2026-10-14
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GADM (opens in a new tab)
DownloadGADM project · Global
Administrative areas for every country, down to level 5 in places.
- Boundaries & admin
Link checked · 2026-10-14
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GEBCO / IHO / IOC · Global
Global terrain model for ocean and land at 15 arc-second resolution.
- Elevation / DEM
- Hydrology
Link checked · 2026-10-14
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William & Mary geoLab · Global
Open, attributable administrative boundaries with a simple API.
- Boundaries & admin
Link checked · 2026-10-14
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Geofabrik · Global
Daily OpenStreetMap extracts by continent, country and region.
- Transport
- Boundaries & admin
Link checked · 2026-10-14
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World Resources Institute · Global
Tree-cover loss and gain (Hansen et al.), fires and deforestation alerts.
- Land cover
- Environment
Link updated · 2026-10-14 (was https://www.globalforestwatch.org/)
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European Commission JRC · Global
Built-up surface, population grids and settlement typology.
- Census & statistics
- Land cover
Link checked · 2026-10-14
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Google Research · Global South
Building footprints for Africa, South and South-East Asia and Latin America.
- Addresses & cadastre
Link updated · 2026-10-14 (was https://sites.research.google/open-buildings/)
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UN OCHA · Global
Common operational datasets: admin boundaries, population and infrastructure.
- Open data portal
- Boundaries & admin
- Census & statistics
Link checked · 2026-10-14
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HydroSHEDS (opens in a new tab)
DownloadWWF / McGill University · Global
River networks, catchments and lakes derived from elevation data.
- Hydrology
Link checked · 2026-10-14
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European Commission JRC · Europe
Discovery portal for spatial data published under the EU INSPIRE Directive.
- Open data portal
Link updated · 2026-10-14 (was https://inspire-geoportal.ec.europa.eu/)
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U.S. Geological Survey · Global
The longest continuous record of Earth's land surface, since 1972.
- Imagery
Link checked · 2026-10-14
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University of Wisconsin–Madison · Global
Harmonised global geological map and stratigraphic columns.
- Geology
Link checked · 2026-10-14
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Microsoft · Global
Petabytes of analysis-ready environmental data behind a STAC API.
- Imagery
- Land cover
- Elevation / DEM
- Environment
Link checked · 2026-10-14
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NASA Earthdata (opens in a new tab)
DownloadNASA · Global
MODIS, VIIRS, SRTM, ICESat-2, GEDI and other NASA mission archives.
- Imagery
- Elevation / DEM
- Environment
Link checked · 2026-10-14
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Natural Earth (opens in a new tab)
DownloadNatural Earth · Global
Small-scale cultural and physical vectors at 1:10m, 1:50m and 1:110m. Powers this page's globe.
- Boundaries & admin
- Hydrology
- Imagery
Link checked · 2026-10-14
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OneGeology Portal (opens in a new tab)
Web viewerOneGeology · Global
Geological maps from national surveys around the world.
- Geology
Link checked · 2026-10-14
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OpenAddresses (opens in a new tab)
DownloadOpenAddresses · Global
Aggregated open address points from hundreds of national and local sources.
- Addresses & cadastre
Link checked · 2026-10-14
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OpenStreetMap contributors · Global
The free, editable map of the world. Query it with Overpass or OSMnx (see our OSMnx tutorial).
- Transport
- Boundaries & admin
- Hydrology
- Addresses & cadastre
Link checked · 2026-10-14
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OpenTopography (NSF) · Global
High-resolution LiDAR and global DEMs (SRTM, ALOS, Copernicus) with an API.
- Elevation / DEM
Link checked · 2026-10-14
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Overture Maps (opens in a new tab)
DownloadOverture Maps Foundation · Global
Buildings, places, transport and divisions as cloud-native GeoParquet.
- Transport
- Boundaries & admin
- Addresses & cadastre
Link checked · 2026-10-14
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WorldClim (opens in a new tab)
DownloadWorldClim · Global
Global climate surfaces: historical and future projections.
- Environment
Link checked · 2026-10-14
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WorldPop (opens in a new tab)
DownloadUniversity of Southampton · Global
High-resolution gridded population and demographics.
- Census & statistics
Link checked · 2026-10-14
How this catalogue is built
Hand-picked national sources (mapping agencies, open data portals, cadastre, elevation and environmental data) are combined with the UN Statistics Division directory of national statistical offices, Geofabrik OpenStreetMap extracts and the geoBoundaries API.
A link checker visits every URL. Moved links are updated to their new location; links whose servers refuse automated checks are marked “not verified”; dead links are flagged. Country outlines on the globe come from Natural Earth (public domain) and do not imply any position on disputed borders.