Swiss cantons
swiss_cantons.Rd2024 geographical borders of all 26 Swiss cantons as provided by the Swiss Federal Statistical Office (Bundesamt für Statistik, BfS).
This is a simple feature (sf) object with additional information.
It can be used directly with ggplot2::geom_sf() to draw a map of the borders of the cantons.
The coordinate reference system (CRS) is the Swiss LV95 system (EPSG 2056).
Format
swiss_cantons
A list with 26 rows and 15 columns:
- KTNR
canton number
- KTNAME
canton name
- GRNR
number of the greater region the canton belongs to
- AREA_HA
area in hectares (rounded to whole numbers)
- E_MIN
canton's minimum eastern coordinate value
- E_MAX
canton's maximum eastern coordinate value
- N_MIN
canton's minimum northern coordinate value
- N_MAX
canton's maximum northern coordinate value
- E_CNTR
canton's centroid coordinate (east)
- N_CNTR
canton's centroid coordinate (north)
- Z_MIN
canton's minimum height coordinate value
- Z_MAX
canton's maximum height coordinate value
- Z_AVG
canton's average height coordinate value
- Z_MED
canton's median height coordinate value
- geometry
sf::sfc_MULTIPOLYGON tracing the canton's borders