Mathematica has built-in access to large volumes of carefully curated and continually updated geographic data, including both socioeconomic and related data, as well as geospatial data. In addition,
Mathematica has sophisticated built-in geodetic capabilities, and can read standard geospatial data interchange formats.
CountryData — hundreds of properties for countries and other entities
"Population"
▪ "GDP"
▪ "Flag"
▪ "Polygon"
▪ "BorderingCountries"
▪ "InternetHosts"
▪ "OilReserves"
▪ "LifeExpectancy"
▪ ...CityData — properties of cities worldwide
"Population"
▪ "Coordinates"
▪ "Elevation"
▪ "Country"
▪ ...GeoDistance — great circle distance between two latitude, longitude points
Import — import data maintaining symbol structure, annotations, etc.
