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  Political Outlines

Click the name of a political entity1,2 in the list below to receive a list of space-delimited latitude/longitude coordinates describing the outline of the entity. North latitudes are positive and south latitudes are negative. East longitudes are positive and west longitudes are negative. If there are multiple outlines for an entity (e.g. - a chain of islands), each outline (set of coordinates) will be separated by a line containing 15 dashes (---------------).

1 The names of the political entities are provided by NASA's Global Change Master Directory:

    Olsen, L.M., G. Major, K. Shein, J. Scialdone, R. Vogel, S. Leicester, H. Weir, S. Ritz, T. Stevens, M. Meaux, C.Solomon, R. Bilodeau, M. Holland, T. Northcutt, R. A. Restrepo, 2007. NASA/Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Earth Science Keywords. Version 6.0.0.0.0

2 The coordinates of the political entries are provided by the NCAR Command Language (NCL, http://www.ncl.ucar.edu).


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