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Data & licenses

Snapshot packaged 10 October 2026. Country coverage, subdivisions and boundary years are defined by the bundled data. Map boundaries are not legal or navigational guidance.

Attribution

Administrative boundaries: geoBoundaries / William & Mary geoLab and its per-country sources listed below. Country outlines and Vatican City/Budapest geometry: Natural Earth (public domain). Norway’s 2024 counties: Kartverket, via robhop/fylker-og-kommuner (CC BY 4.0). Cities, coordinates, population and administrative identifiers: GeoNames (CC BY 4.0).

Changes: simplified/rounded geometry, European-territory filtering, merged same-name source fragments, corrected text encoding, translated selected region names, country/city indexing, and city-to-region matching through spatial containment and exact administrative codes/names. Budapest is added as a separate unit and its footprint removed from Pest.

These open datasets retain their respective licenses. Derived country boundary databases are distributed under their source licenses, including ODbL or CC BY-SA where applicable. The downloadable JSON files are the machine-readable modified data. GeoNames components retain CC BY 4.0 attribution. Software interface/code is separate from data licensing. Country outlines from Natural Earth remain public domain.

geoBoundaries · Natural Earth terms · GeoNames · Norway source · CC BY 4.0 · CC BY 3.0 · CC BY 2.5 · CC BY-SA 3.0 · CC BY-SA 2.0 · ODbL 1.0

Country boundary sources

Complete provenance, license references and geometry hashes are in sources.json. Individual modified boundary/city files are available under assets/data/COUNTRY_ID.json (e.g. FIN.json).

CountryBoundary yearOriginal sourceBoundary license
Albania2021geoBoundaries, WikipediaPublic Domain
Andorra2007geoBoundaries, Wikimedia CommonsPublic Domain
Armenia2005geoBoundaries, WikimediaCreative Commons Attribution 2.5 Generic
Austria2017geoBoundaries, Federal Office for Metrology and Survey, AustriaCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
Azerbaijan2020WikipediaCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported
Belarus2005geoBoundaries, CIESINCreative Commons Attribution 3.0 License
Belgium2022Eurostat- European CommissionCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)
Bosnia and Herzegovina2013Wikimedia CommonsPublic Domain
Bulgaria2019geoBoundaries, WikimediaPublic Domain
Croatia2017OpenStreetMap, WambacherOpen Data Commons Open Database License 1.0
Cyprus2017OpenStreetMap, WambacherOpen Data Commons Open Database License 1.0
Czechia2021Czech Office for SurveyingCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Denmark2021geoBoundaries, Web Vectors MapCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Estonia2016OpenStreetMap, WambacherOpen Data Commons Open Database License 1.0
Finland2017OpenStreetMap, WambacherOpen Data Commons Open Database License 1.0
France2022Institut national de l'information géographique et forestière (IGN-F)Etalab Open License 2.0
Georgia2015geoBoundaries, WikimediaCreative Commons Attribution 3.0 License
Germany2021Federal Agency for Cartography and GeodesyData license Germany - Attribution - Version 2.0
Greece2016EuroGeoGraphics, Regional IM Working Group - EuropeCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Hungary2011geoBoundaries, Wikimedia CommonsCC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication
Iceland2017OpenStreetMap, WambacherOpen Data Commons Open Database License 1.0
Ireland2022Ordnance Survey IrelandCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)
Italy2023ISTAT, National Institute of StatisticsCreative Commons Attribution 3.0 License
Kazakhstan2017OpenStreetMap, WambacherOpen Data Commons Open Database License 1.0
Kosovo2021Open Street MapCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
Latvia2021Geoportal of LatviaCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Liechtenstein2017OpenStreetMap, WambacherOpen Data Commons Open Database License 1.0
Lithuania2017OpenStreetMap, WambacherOpen Data Commons Open Database License 1.0
Luxembourg2017OpenStreetMap, WambacherOpen Data Commons Open Database License 1.0
Malta2022geoBoundaries, d-maps.comPublic Domain
Moldova2020UNHCR, OCHA FISSCreative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO)
Monaco2017OpenStreetMap, WambacherOpen Data Commons Open Database License 1.0
Montenegro2017OpenStreetMap, WambacherOpen Data Commons Open Database License 1.0
Netherlands2022National GeoregisterCC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication
North Macedonia2016EuroGeographics and NTES (Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics - Republic of Macedonia State Statistical Office), Regional IM Working Group - EuropeCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Norway2024Kartverket via robhop/fylker-og-kommunerCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Poland2017OpenStreetMap, WambacherOpen Data Commons Open Database License 1.0
Portugal2016DG TerritoryOpen Data Commons Open Database License 1.0
Romania2017World BankCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Russia2017OpenStreetMap, WambacherOpen Data Commons Open Database License 1.0
San Marino2017OpenStreetMap, WambacherOpen Data Commons Open Database License 1.0
Serbia2017OpenStreetMap, WambacherOpen Data Commons Open Database License 1.0
Slovakia2017OpenStreetMap, WambacherOpen Data Commons Open Database License 1.0
Slovenia2017OpenStreetMap, WambacherOpen Data Commons Open Database License 1.0
Spain2017Instituto de Geografico NacionalCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Sweden2009geoBoundaries, Erik FrohneCreative Commons Attribution 3.0 License
Switzerland2022Federal Office of Topography swisstopoFederal Office of Topography swisstopo License
Türkiye2021Open Street MapCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
Ukraine2017OpenStreetMap, WambacherOpen Data Commons Open Database License 1.0
United Kingdom2021Eurostat- European CommissionCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Vatican CityNot specifiedNatural EarthPublic domain

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