UK Country Boundaries for December 2025, Super Generalised

Digital vector boundaries for countries in the United Kingdom, representing the administrative geography as of December 2025. The data uses Ordnance Survey and Office for National Statistics intellectual property and is provided in a Super Generalised (200m) format clipped to the Mean High Water coastline. It was last updated on the platform in May 2026.

Use Cases

• Create UK-wide thematic maps based on country-level administrative units.
• Perform spatial joins with other UK datasets using the provided country boundaries.
• Analyze coastal and inland geographic patterns using the coastline-clipped vector data.

Strengths

• Boundaries are specified as being for a specific future date (December 2025), providing a consistent temporal snapshot.
• The description specifies the boundary type (Super Generalised, 200m) and that it is clipped to the Mean High Water coastline.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Office for National Statistics

Time Range

December 2025

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-13 18:04:00.558482; freshness should be verified.

Geography

United Kingdom