How to obtain maps with regions and subregions

Question

My problem: I want to obtain a map from a given country with subregions in r.

So far: For example map package provides counties map which database produces a map of the counties of the United States mainland generated from US Department of the Census data. Or for example italy map which provides subregions, such as in a pair of lines of code is possible to plot it:

it <- ggplot2::map_data("italy")

library(ggplot2)

ggplot(it, aes(long, lat, group = group)) +
  geom_polygon() +
  coord_fixed()

I would like to obtain same maps for another countries but unfortunately I think that maps package only provides this information for USA, Italy and France. Is there a package which provides such information?

Tito Sanz · Accepted Answer · 2019-02-12T22:11:19.923

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Based on the @alistaire's comment:

library("rnaturalearth")
library("ggplot2")
spain <- ne_states(country = "spain", returnclass = "sf")

ggplot(data = spain) +
  geom_sf()

^{Created on 2019-01-20 by the reprex package (v0.2.1)}

As proposed here regions can be obtained just using group_by and summarise:

spain %>% 
  group_by(region) %>% 
  summarise() %>% 
  ggplot() +
  geom_sf() +
  theme(legend.position = 'none')

^{Created on 2019-02-12 by the reprex package (v0.2.1)}

edited Feb 12 '19 at 22:11

answered Jan 20 '19 at 18:33

Tito Sanz

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How can you get those islands closer Spain? (left bottom) – Jorge Paredes Apr 08 '21 at 16:04
Mmm I remember there are some packages that allow this kind of things. But rnaturalearth is not one of them... – Tito Sanz Apr 08 '21 at 16:48
How to save the sf file, "spain"? – Masoud May 21 '22 at 05:45
@Masoud you can save it as a regular ggplot in png, jpg or another image format – Tito Sanz Jun 07 '22 at 10:21

How to obtain maps with regions and subregions

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