2019 Cartographic Boundary File KML, 116th Congressional Districts for United States, 1:20,000,000
The 2019 cartographic boundary KMLs 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.
Congressional Districts are the 435 areas from which people are elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. After the apportionment of congressional seats among the states based on census population counts, each state is responsible for establishing congressional districts for the purpose of electing representatives. Each congressional district is to be as equal in population to all other congressional districts in a state as practicable. The 116th Congress is seated from January 2019 to 2021. The cartographic boundary files for the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the Island Areas (American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands) each contain a single record for the non-voting delegate district in these areas. The boundaries of all other congressional districts are provided to the Census Bureau by the states by May 1, 2018.
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| issued | 2020-06-15T00:00:00.000+00:00 |
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| license | https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ |
| modified | 2020-06-15T00:00:00.000+00:00 |
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| temporal | 2020-05-01T00:00:00+00:00/2020-05-01T00:00:00+00:00 |
| title | 2019 Cartographic Boundary File KML, 116th Congressional Districts for United States, 1:20,000,000 |
