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Global 1:1 million place name dataset (2013)
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English name
Global 1:1 million place name dataset (2013)
CSTR
CSTR:11738.11.ncdc.Westdc.2021.812
DOI
10.12072/ncdc.westdc.db3857.2023
Share type
Online
Category
Basic Geography
source site
Scientific data center for cold and arid regions
contributors
Wu lizong
Datasets description

The data set is the global 1:1 million place name data set, including the global capital, provincial capital cities and major cities spatial point distribution and attribute data. The time range of the data is 2013. ArcMap is used to export and sort out the database, check the geometry, topology and attributes, and ArcGIS repair geometry tool is used to check all polygons.

The scale is 1:1 million

Field 1: name (city name) Data type: text (50)

Field 2: type (city type) Data type: text (16)

Base information
collect time 2013/01/01  -  2013/12/31
collect place Global scale
data size 576.9 KiB
data format shp
Coordinate system WGS84
Projection /
Data thumbnail
Data source description

Purchased from ADC WorldMap7.1 database

Data processing method

Export and organize the database with ArcMap, check the geometry, topology and attributes, and check all polygons with ArcGIS repair geometry tool.

Data quality description

Good data quality

Citations and annotations
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For the achievements published in English, please refer to the following specifications： The dataset is provided by National Cryosphere Desert Data Center. (http://www.ncdc.ac.cn).

Data reference
  1. Wu lizong. Global 1:1 million place name dataset (2013). National Cryosphere Desert Data Center(http://www.ncdc.ac.cn), 2021. https://cstr.cn/CSTR:11738.11.ncdc.Westdc.2021.812.
  2. Wu lizong. Global 1:1 million place name dataset (2013). National Cryosphere Desert Data Center(http://www.ncdc.ac.cn), 2021. https://www.doi.org/10.12072/ncdc.westdc.db3857.2023.
license agreement
Creative Commons License   This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
# title file size
1 全球1：100万地名数据集.zip 576.9 KiB
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How to get the data 
east 180.00
west -180.00
south -79.00
north  89.00
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Service information
contacts:
Li Hongxing
phone:
0931-4967592
mailbox:
lihongxing@lzb.ac.cn
Contact information
contributors:
Wu lizong
author:
Gai Chunmei
manager:
Min Yu Fang

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