2016 Cartographic Boundary File, Region for United States, 1:5,000,000
The 2016 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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| @type | dcat:Dataset |
|---|---|
| accessLevel | non-public |
| contactPoint |
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| describedByType | application/octet-steam |
| description | The 2016 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 | https://meta.geo.census.gov/data/existing/decennial/GEO/CPMB/boundary/2016Cartographic/region_5/cb_2016_us_region_5m.shp.iso.xml |
| issued | 2017-03-01T00:00:00.000+00:00 |
| keyword |
[ "Boundaries", "2016", "SHP", "Cartographic Boundary", "Generalized", "Region", "United States", "US" ] |
| language |
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| license | https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ |
| modified | 2017-03-01T00:00:00.000+00:00 |
| publisher |
{ "name": "U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Census Bureau, Geography Division, Geographic Customer Services Branch ", "@type": "org:Organization" } |
| rights | otherRestrictions |
| spatial | 179.77847,-14.552549,-179.14734,71.352561 |
| temporal | 2017-03-01T00:00:00+00:00/2017-03-01T00:00:00+00:00 |
| title | 2016 Cartographic Boundary File, Region for United States, 1:5,000,000 |
