2019 Cartographic Boundary Shapefile, Region for United States, 1:5,000,000
The 2019 cartographic boundary shapefiles are simplified representations of selected geographic areas from the U.S. Census Bureau's Master Address File / Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing (MAF/TIGER) Database (MTDB). These boundary files are specifically designed for small-scale thematic mapping. When possible, generalization is performed with the intent to maintain the hierarchical relationships among geographies and to maintain the alignment of geographies within a file set for a given year. Geographic areas may not align with the same areas from another year. Some geographies are available as nation-based files while others are available only as state-based files.
Regions are four groupings of states (Northeast, South, Midwest, and West) established by the Census Bureau in 1942 for the presentation of census data.
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Shapefile Zip File
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Cartographic Boundary Shapefiles
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Complete Metadata
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| contactPoint |
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| description | The 2019 cartographic boundary shapefiles are simplified representations of selected geographic areas from the U.S. Census Bureau's Master Address File / Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing (MAF/TIGER) Database (MTDB). These boundary files are specifically designed for small-scale thematic mapping. When possible, generalization is performed with the intent to maintain the hierarchical relationships among geographies and to maintain the alignment of geographies within a file set for a given year. Geographic areas may not align with the same areas from another year. Some geographies are available as nation-based files while others are available only as state-based files. Regions are four groupings of states (Northeast, South, Midwest, and West) established by the Census Bureau in 1942 for the presentation of census data. |
| distribution |
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| identifier | cb_2019_us_region_5m.shp.iso.xml |
| isPartOf | https://meta.geo.census.gov/data/existing/decennial/GEO/CPMB/boundary/2019cb/SeriesInfo/SeriesInfo2019Region.shp.iso.xml |
| issued | 2020-07-08T00:00:00.000+00:00 |
| keyword |
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"Cartographic Boundary",
"Generalized",
"Region",
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| language |
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| license | https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ |
| modified | 2020-07-08T00:00:00.000+00:00 |
| publisher |
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| spatial | 179.77847,-14.552549,-179.14734,71.352561 |
| temporal | 2020-05-01T00:00:00+00:00/2020-05-01T00:00:00+00:00 |
| title | 2019 Cartographic Boundary Shapefile, Region for United States, 1:5,000,000 |
