Countries
Name in the API
countryCovers
Areas in the latest release
Published by
Boundary releases
The Atlas holds 6 releases of these boundaries, newest first. Use the release id wherever an endpoint asks for release.
| Release | Description | Areas | Map tiles |
|---|---|---|---|
2025-12-uk-bgc | Countries, December 2025 (United Kingdom, generalised, clipped) | 4 | Yes |
2024-12-uk-bgc | Countries, December 2024 (United Kingdom, generalised, clipped) | 4 | Yes |
2023-12-uk-bgc | Countries, December 2023 (United Kingdom, generalised, clipped) | 4 | Yes |
2022-12-uk-bgc | Countries, December 2022 (United Kingdom, generalised, clipped) | 4 | Yes |
2021-12-uk-bgc | Countries, December 2021 (United Kingdom, generalised, clipped) | 4 | Yes |
2020-12-uk-bgc | Countries, December 2020 (United Kingdom, generalised, clipped) | 4 | Yes |
Boundaries are published by Office for National Statistics under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Get attribution text gives the credit line for a map.
Datasets on these areas
No data in the Atlas is published on countries yet. You can still look up these areas, draw their boundaries, and find which other areas they sit inside or overlap.
Request it
List the areas in the latest release:
curl "https://api.ukdataatlas.com/v1/areas?geography=country&release=2025-12-uk-bgc&limit=5"Draw them on a map with vector tiles:
curl "https://api.ukdataatlas.com/v1/map-resources/country/2025-12-uk-bgc/tiles.json"/areas/{geography}/{release}/{code}/geometryGet an area's shapeget/areas:containsFind areas at a pointget/boundary-releases:resolveFind boundaries for a dateDownloads
Every release has an area-code lookup table. Releases with map resources also have downloadable PMTiles and GeoParquet shapes. The source and licence information above applies to these files too; preserve the attribution and note any cleaning or reformatting when you redistribute one.
| Release | Area codes | Boundary files |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-uk-bgc | CSV | PMTilesGeoParquet |
| 2024-12-uk-bgc | CSV | PMTilesGeoParquet |
| 2023-12-uk-bgc | CSV | PMTilesGeoParquet |
| 2022-12-uk-bgc | CSV | PMTilesGeoParquet |
| 2021-12-uk-bgc | CSV | PMTilesGeoParquet |
| 2020-12-uk-bgc | CSV | PMTilesGeoParquet |