Countries of the world

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Author(s): 

Stefan Siegert

Description: 

This deck contains 199 (aka almost all) countries of the world as country-name/country-outline-on-a-map pairs. The front of the card shows country name and an empty map of a larger geographic region, the back of the card shows the country marked in red, but without the country name. So the cards can be used front-to-back ("Where is this country?") and back-to-front ("Name that country!").

The country names and map data were taken from the package "rworldmap"[1] of the R statistical computing environment[2]. I made small modifications like fixing typos in country names, and removing some small islands I didn't want to learn. The resulting collection contains 199 sovereign countries, dependent countries, and regions of disputed/indeterminate status.

Please report any inaccuracies. Contact me if you are interested in the R code.

Source: 

[1] South, Andy 2011 rworldmap: A New R package for Mapping Global Data. The R Journal Vol. 3/1 : 35-43. URL http://journal.r-project.org/archive/2011-1/RJournal_2011-1_South.pdf

[2] R Core Team (2017). R: A language and environment for statistical computing. R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna, Austria. URL https://www.R-project.org/.

Mnemosyne Compatibility: 

  • 2.1+

Card Set File: 

1 Comment

ZeGermanEmpire's picture

downloading

I downloaded the basic project, but when I try to download these sets I can't find the folder it's located in.