TIGER/Line Shapefile, Current, Nation, U.S., State and Equivalent Entities
This resource is a member of a series. The TIGER/Line shapefiles and related database files (.dbf) are an extract of selected geographic and cartographic information from the U.S. Census Bureau's Master Address File / Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing (MAF/TIGER) System (MTS). The MTS represents a seamless national file with no overlaps or gaps between parts, however, each TIGER/Line shapefile is designed to stand alone as an independent data set, or they can be combined to cover the entire nation.
States and equivalent entities are the primary governmental divisions of the United States. In addition to the fifty states, the Census Bureau treats the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and each of the Island Areas (American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands) as the statistical equivalents of states for the purpose of data presentation.
Resources
4 resources available
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tl_2025_us_state.zip
ZIP -
tl_2025_state.shp.ea.iso.xml
XML -
TIGERweb/tigerWMS_Current (MapServer)
TEXT/HTML -
TIGERweb/State_County (MapServer)
TEXT/HTML
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Complete Metadata
| @type | dcat:Dataset |
|---|---|
| accessLevel | non-public |
| contactPoint |
{
"fn": "U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Census Bureau, Geography Division",
"@type": "vcard:Contact",
"hasEmail": "mailto:geo.geography@census.gov"
}
|
| describedByType | application/octet-steam |
| description | This resource is a member of a series. The TIGER/Line shapefiles and related database files (.dbf) are an extract of selected geographic and cartographic information from the U.S. Census Bureau's Master Address File / Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing (MAF/TIGER) System (MTS). The MTS represents a seamless national file with no overlaps or gaps between parts, however, each TIGER/Line shapefile is designed to stand alone as an independent data set, or they can be combined to cover the entire nation. States and equivalent entities are the primary governmental divisions of the United States. In addition to the fifty states, the Census Bureau treats the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and each of the Island Areas (American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands) as the statistical equivalents of states for the purpose of data presentation. |
| distribution |
[
{
"@type": "dcat:Distribution",
"title": "tl_2025_us_state.zip",
"format": "ZIP",
"mediaType": "application/zip",
"description": "The TIGER/Line Shapefiles are the fully supported, core geographic product from the U.S. Census Bureau. They are extracts of selected geographic and cartographic information from the U.S. Census Bureau's Master Address File/Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing (MAF/TIGER) System.",
"downloadURL": "https://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/TIGER2025/STATE/tl_2025_us_state.zip",
"describedByType": "application/octet-stream"
},
{
"@type": "dcat:Distribution",
"title": "tl_2025_state.shp.ea.iso.xml",
"format": "XML",
"mediaType": "application/xml",
"description": "Entity and attribute file",
"downloadURL": "https://meta.geo.census.gov/data/existing/decennial/GEO/GPMB/TIGERline/Current_19110/tl_2025_state.shp.ea.iso.xml",
"describedByType": "application/octet-stream"
},
{
"@type": "dcat:Distribution",
"title": "TIGERweb/tigerWMS_Current (MapServer)",
"accessURL": "https://tigerweb.geo.census.gov/arcgis/rest/services/TIGERweb/tigerWMS_Current/MapServer",
"mediaType": "text/html",
"description": "The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC) Web Map Service interface standard (WMS) provides a simple HTTP interface for requesting geo-registered map images from our geospatial database. The response to the request is one or more geo-registered map images that can be displayed in a browser or WMS client application. By gaining access to our data through our WMS, users can produce maps containing TIGERweb layers combined with layers from other servers.",
"describedByType": "application/octet-stream"
},
{
"@type": "dcat:Distribution",
"title": "TIGERweb/State_County (MapServer)",
"accessURL": "https://tigerweb.geo.census.gov/arcgis/rest/services/TIGERweb/State_County/MapServer",
"mediaType": "text/html",
"description": "The GeoServices REST Specification provides a way for Web clients to communicate with geographic information system (GIS) servers through Representational State Transfer (REST) technology.",
"describedByType": "application/octet-stream"
}
]
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| identifier | https://meta.geo.census.gov/data/existing/decennial/GEO/GPMB/TIGERline/Current_19115/tl_2025_us_state.shp.iso.xml |
| isPartOf | Series Information for State and Equivalent Entities National TIGER/Line Shapefiles, Current |
| issued | 2025-01-01T00:00:00.000+00:00 |
| keyword |
[
"Nation",
"Polygon",
"United States",
"U.S."
]
|
| language |
[]
|
| license | https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ |
| modified | 2025-10-01T00:00:00.000+00:00 |
| publisher |
{
"name": "U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Census Bureau, Geography Division",
"@type": "org:Organization"
}
|
| rights | otherRestrictions |
| spatial | 146.154418,-14.601813,-178.443593,71.439786 |
| temporal | 2025-06-01T00:00:00+00:00/2026-10-01T00:00:00+00:00 |
| title | TIGER/Line Shapefile, Current, Nation, U.S., State and Equivalent Entities |
