Geographic data downloads
Download geographic reference data from GISCO: administrative and statistical boundaries in GeoJSON, TopoJSON, shapefile, GeoPackage and other formats, at several scales and projections.
Specific download provisions apply to these datasets. By downloading or using the data, you accept them.
Choose a theme
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Coastal lines
European coastlines at several scales.
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Communes
Communes (municipalities), up to 2016. Later years are published as Local Administrative Units.
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Countries
Country boundaries for the whole world.
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Local Administrative Units
Local Administrative Units (LAU), the building blocks of NUTS regions.
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NUTS
Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics: the regions of the EU and neighbouring countries, at NUTS levels 0 to 3.
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Postal codes
Postal codes of European countries.
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Urban Audit
Cities, greater cities and functional urban areas of the Urban Audit.
Using the API
Every page on this site is also available as JSON, so you can script your downloads. The API is a set of static files that you request with HTTP GET. This is version 2.0 of the GISCO data distribution API.
themes.jsonlists the themes.<theme>/datasets.jsonlists the datasets of a theme, for examplenuts/datasets.json.- Each dataset points to the JSON files that list its files, units and zipped packages, and to its release notes and metadata.
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