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RLC State and Regional Boundaries for the Former Soviet Union

Metadata Updated: October 23, 2025

This data set of state and regional boundaries was derived from the 1:3 million scale administrative boundaries (ESRI, 1998) for the land area of the Former Soviet Union. There are 162 administrative regions distinguished in this data set. The vector map of state and regional boundaries for the FSU is in ArcView shapefile format.

Access & Use Information

Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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Dates

Metadata Created Date April 11, 2025
Metadata Updated Date October 23, 2025

Metadata Source

Harvested from NASA Data.json

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date April 11, 2025
Metadata Updated Date October 23, 2025
Publisher ORNL_DAAC
Maintainer
Identifier 10.3334/ORNLDAAC/699
Data Last Modified 2025-09-11
Category Earth Science
Public Access Level public
Bureau Code 026:00
Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
Harvest Object Id c1f6c687-f6fe-4312-9588-fc54e70b5964
Harvest Source Id 58f92550-7a01-4f00-b1b2-8dc953bd598f
Harvest Source Title NASA Data.json
Homepage URL https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search?q=rlc_admin_boundaries_699&ac=true
Old Spatial {"WestBoundingCoordinate":25.0,"NorthBoundingCoordinate":71.0,"EastBoundingCoordinate":180.0,"SouthBoundingCoordinate":23.21},"CARTESIAN"
Program Code 026:000
Source Datajson Identifier True
Source Hash 57c84a1b3ce4120461fcbc31625ab0e7138538d377de75390a1450eb68783c65
Source Schema Version 1.1
Spatial
Temporal 1998-08-01/1998-08-01

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