Canton border (Polygons)

Manipulated data from the Swissboundries3D dataset by swisstopo.

kantonsgebiet

Format

An sf object containing polygon data with four features.

NAME

Name of the country

KANTONSNUM

Official number of canton

EINWOHNERZ

Number of inhabitatns (probabbly sum of all multipart features)

KANTONSFLA

Area (probabbly sum of all multipart features)

Abk.

Official abbreviation

Beitritt

Member in the swiss confederation since

Hauptort

Capital

Amtssprache

Official language

Franzoesisch

Name in French

Italienisch

Name in Italian

Raetoromanisch

Name in Romansh

geometry

sfc_POLYGON data in EPSG 2056

Source

https://shop.swisstopo.admin.ch/de/products/landscape/boundaries3D

Details

Manipulation:

1. Removed z-Values

2. Dropped some columns

3. Singlepart to multipart (summarise.sf = st_union?)

4. Added some metadata (Abk. and following)