16  Human geography lab: Annex 1

16.1 Administrative regions of Japan

  • Load all necessary packages
pacman::p_load(tidyverse, maps, countrycode, rnaturalearth, sf)
  • First we will download the available shapefile of Japan from following website:

https://data.humdata.org/dataset/cod-ab-jpn?

  • Save the downloaded data into your GIS project inside a folder name data.

  • We will read the shapefile and provide a name shapefile_jpn.

  • We will plot the shapefile named shapefile_jpn.

shapefile_jpn <- read_sf("data/jpn_shp_adm/jpn_admbnda_adm1_2019.shp")
plot(shapefile_jpn)