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MIDDLE EAST + NORTH AFRICA
Regional
• Geo-referenced Database of Dams in the Middle East
By Country
Iraq
Basemap in shapefile format.
Neighborhood boundaries in shapefile format.
Boundaries of Ethnoreligious Areas
Vector dataset of ethno-religious areas in Iraq, based on "Distribution of Ethnoreligious Groups and Tribes, CIA Country Profile, 2003."and "Ethnoreligious Groups, CIA, 1992."
Turkey
2011 Turkey Earthquake User Group
Web map services.
United Arab Emirates
Metadata catalog.
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EUROPE
Regional
European administrative boundaries, ports and airports, urbanization, and land cover.
Administrative Units / Statistical Units, Population distribution / Demography, Transport Networks, Land Cover, and Elevation (DEM) datasets covering Europe.
For the Baltic Sea area, downloadable shapefiles of protected areas, pollution, shipping, fisheries, and some background data, from the Helsinki Commission. (Site is currently under maintenance but click here for the same data).
European Forest Genetic Resources Programme
Distribution maps of tree species across Europe, in shapefile format.
European Soil Portal
Ecological soil data in European countries.Inspire Geoportal (European Union)
The INSPIRE geoportal enables search of spatial data and services, with subject to access restrictions.
Open data available for Europe at 1: 1 million scale, including administrative boundaries, water networks, transportation, developments, and place names.
European Union Open Data Portal
Open data is searchable by keyword and theme, covering environmental variables of interest or more.
European Environment Agency, Data and Maps
Includes searchable data products, maps, interactive maps, and downloadable datasets.
Raster land cover data for Europe.
MPIDR Population History GIS Collection
Includes historic administrative boundaries of select European locations.
MPIDR Population History GIS Collection
The Mosaic project identifies, gathers, harmonizes, and distributes surviving historical census microdata for Europe and beyond. It aims at building a comprehensive and detailed resource for the historic study of populations by historians, demographers, economists, and other researchers. The Mosaic project builds on historical integrated census microdata projects such as the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) and the North Atlantic Population Project (NAPP). Records are distributed in the same integrated format, so that historical comparisons can be made across time and space.
*Euratlas georeferenced historical vector data* by Christos Nüssli, shapefiles by Marc-Antoine Nüssli
Contains 21 maps, one for each century from year 1 CE to year 2000 CE. These maps depict the political makeup of Europe at the last year of each century. Each map is composed of physical features shapefile layers (rivers, seas, and elevation data) and political features layers (sovereign nations, dependent territories, autonomous peoples, cities and towns, uncertain boundaries).
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