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<p>Internal, second-order administrative boundaries and polygons for just the United States. Includes name attributes (including diacritical marks), name variants, and some statistical codes (FIPS, ISO, HASC).</p>
<p><em>Admin-0 units that lack admin-2:</em></p>
<p>All countries but the United States lack admin-2 features.</p>
<p><strong>How-to</strong></p>
<p>Use the following selection statement to derive this theme from the 10m lakes:</p>
<p>“ScaleRank”<=2 Then punch those selected features through the admin-1 and save result as a new feature class. <strong>Issues</strong></p>
<p>This is the toughest dataset to keep current. A few changes happen in a decade in the United States, but other countries constantly rearrange their admin-2 units, slicing and combining them on a regular basis.</p>
<p><em>Boundaries should perfectly match the following NEV themes:</em></p>
<p>Coastline, lake shoreline, admin-0 country boundary, admin-1 state/province boundary, river and lake centerlines.</p>
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