Latin America Countries
Polygons of the 33 independent countries of Latin America and the Caribbean.
About this Spatial Dataset
National boundary polygons for the 33 independent countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, simplified for web rendering rather than for cadastral accuracy. The geometries are big enough to make polygon operations interesting — Chile is long and thin, Brazil is enormous, and the Caribbean states include offshore islands that make them genuine MultiPolygons — which makes this a good dataset for exercising buffer, union and point-in-polygon logic before you point it at production data.
- Geometry type: Polygon / MultiPolygon (33 features).
- Coordinate Reference System (CRS): EPSG:4326 (Longitude / Latitude).
- Format: GeoJSON FeatureCollection.
- Source: Derived from Natural Earth Admin-0 country boundaries (v5.1.1), simplified for web display.
- Licence: Public domain (Natural Earth terms of use).
- Compatible With: PostGIS, QGIS, Leaflet, Mapbox GL JS, Turf.js, Python GeoPandas, Shapely.
Feature properties
Every feature in the FeatureCollection carries these keys.
| Property | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| name | string | Country name in English, e.g. "Ecuador". |
| color | string | Hex colour used for the default fill style. |
Frequently Asked Questions
Are these boundaries accurate enough for analysis?+
They are simplified for fast web rendering, so use them for visualization, prototyping and teaching — not for area calculations, legal boundaries, or anything where a few kilometres of vertex error matters. For precise work, source the full-resolution Natural Earth or national cadastral data.
Which countries are included?+
All 33 independent countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. Alongside Mexico, Central America and South America, the layer includes the Caribbean states and the English-, French-, Dutch- and Portuguese-speaking countries in the region, such as the Bahamas, Barbados, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago.