GeoEntities

GeoEntities[reg,enttype]

gives a list of the geographic entities of type enttype contained in the extended region reg.

GeoEntities[reg]

gives a list of the geographic regions of any type contained in reg.

Details and Options

  • In GeoEntities[reg,enttype], reg can be any extended geo region, including geo entities of domains such as "City", "Country" or "HistoricalCountry"; Dated[] objects; GeoVariant[] expressions or extended GeoGraphics primitives.
  • In GeoEntities[reg,enttype], enttype can be specified as an Entity object, such as Entity["Country"], or as a string, such as "City".
  • Valid forms of enttype include:
  • "AdministrativeDivision"administrative division of any level
    "AdministrativeDivision1"first-level administrative division
    "AdministrativeDivision2"second-level administrative division
    "AdministrativeDivision3"third-level administrative division
    "Airport"airports
    "Bridge"bridges
    "Building"buildings
    "City"city
    "Country"country, territory, etc.
    "HistoricalCountry"historical countries, regions, empires, etc.
    "MilitaryConflict"military conflicts
    "Mountain"mountains
    "Ocean"oceans
    "USCounty"US counties
    "USState"US states
    "Volcano"volcanoes
    "ZIPCode"US ZIP codes
    Dated[enttype,date]entities of type enttype restricted by date
    Except[ent,enttype]entities other than ent of type enttype
    GeoVariant[enttype,variant]entities using variant regions
    EntityClass["type","class"]individual members of class
    enttype1|enttype2|any of the enttypei
    Allany possible type

Examples

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Basic Examples  (3)

The mountains in Israel:

Famous buildings in the city of Dallas, Texas:

Cities in a particular coordinate rectangle:

Scope  (12)

Geographic Data  (7)

All entities in ZIP code 61801:

Find mountains and bridges in Vermont:

Administrative divisions other than Manhattan that intersect New York City:

Bridges in several cities:

Find the countries a given polygon partially overlaps:

Draw a map showing the polygon and countries:

The United States extends into a part of the Pacific Ocean:

But its principal land mass does not:

The portion of the United States in question is Hawaii:

Determine the G7 countries inside the specified latitude/longitude region:

Historical Data  (5)

Find the military conflicts that happened in the Roman Republic at any time in its history:

Use Dated to restrict the historical entity to a specific date or interval:

Using Dated with the entity type will return results specifying the date of spatial overlap:

Using a non-historical entity with a historical entity type will compute overlaps, ignoring date information:

Restrict the search to a given date range using Dated with the entity type:

Use Dated[enttype,All] to return the periods of overlap for all historical entities:

Find the military conflicts that occurred between years 100 and 600 in the given geo rectangle:

Options  (1)

"FullyContained"  (1)

By default, an entity is considered to be inside the region if the two intersect:

The option "FullyContained"->True excludes entities that cover only a portion of the location:

Properties & Relations  (3)

GeoEntities always returns a list:

The list may be empty:

For extended locations loc, GeoEntities[loc,enttype] is essentially equivalent to GeoIdentify[enttype,loc]:

GeoEntities only includes entities that overlap the region:

GeoNearest includes all entities, if any, at zero distance from an extended region:

Wolfram Research (2014), GeoEntities, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/GeoEntities.html (updated 2024).

Text

Wolfram Research (2014), GeoEntities, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/GeoEntities.html (updated 2024).

CMS

Wolfram Language. 2014. "GeoEntities." Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Wolfram Research. Last Modified 2024. https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/GeoEntities.html.

APA

Wolfram Language. (2014). GeoEntities. Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Retrieved from https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/GeoEntities.html

BibTeX

@misc{reference.wolfram_2024_geoentities, author="Wolfram Research", title="{GeoEntities}", year="2024", howpublished="\url{https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/GeoEntities.html}", note=[Accessed: 10-December-2024 ]}

BibLaTeX

@online{reference.wolfram_2024_geoentities, organization={Wolfram Research}, title={GeoEntities}, year={2024}, url={https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/GeoEntities.html}, note=[Accessed: 10-December-2024 ]}