Political
World countries and borders
A public-domain political base: who administers which polygon, with the usual disputed-border caveats.
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Exclusive economic zones
Maritime EEZ polygons: who claims which ocean band. Complements land borders; not a second countries layer.
An exclusive economic zone is generally a band out to 200 nautical miles from a coastal baseline, where a state has sovereign rights over resources in the water and seabed. Marine Regions (Flanders Marine Institute) publishes a global EEZ geodatabase used as the usual public reference. This is maritime jurisdiction, not a second Natural Earth admin-0 countries map. The Marine Regions hub is marineregions.org.
Source
Marine Regions: EEZ (Flanders Marine Institute)
Vintage: 2023
https://www.marineregions.org/eez.php
License
Marine Regions EEZ data are typically CC BY 4.0 (cite Flanders Marine Institute). The preview is B1mbo’s Commons world EEZ / territorial-waters schematic (CC BY-SA 3.0 CL), based on VLIZ maritime boundaries.
How to read it
A blue ocean band is a claim or a treaty line, sometimes overlapping. High seas lie beyond. Disputed EEZs are drawn one way so the map can be drawn at all. Open Marine Regions for the current polygons. The preview is a Commons world EEZ schematic, not a dump of their geodatabase.
Caveats
Treaties, median lines, and joint regimes change. A thumbnail is not UNCLOS litigation. Fishing and oil rights are not the same as sovereignty over every use of the water column.
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Political
States and provinces
First-order internal divisions (states, provinces, oblasts…): administrative lines inside countries, not another sovereign-border atlas and not EEZ.
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Political
Disputed and breakaway areas
Polygons Natural Earth flags as breakaway or disputed, a cartographer’s working set for contested land, not a court ruling and not a second world-countries layer.
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Political
Land boundary lines
International land borders as line geometries, the edge between polygons, not a filled countries map and not maritime EEZ limits.
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