Context layer
Natural Earth land outline
Coastal landmass outlines, a subtle physical frame for the corpus.
- Canonical ID
ne-land- Period
- 6000 BC–2024
- Role
- context
- Status
- published
What you are looking at
Landmass polygons at 1:110 million from Natural Earth. An alternative to the coastline where a filled ground reads better than an outline, particularly under the territorial layers.
This record is deliberately short. A context layer takes the minimal-context exemption: it owes a reader its source, its licence and any warning about how it behaves over historical material, and it does not owe the reconstruction and uncertainty sections that belong to a layer making a historical claim.
What to watch for
The same caveat as the coastline: this is the modern shape of the land, not the shape it had. It is a frame, not evidence.
Sources and licence
Natural Earth, ne_110m_land, public domain. Made with Natural Earth.
Citation and reuse
- Version
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ne_110m_land - Licence
- Public Domain
- Attribution
- Made with Natural Earth
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-23
Cite this dataset
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Advanced and technical
Schemas, source data, build history and raw assets. Nothing here is needed to understand what this page describes; it is here so the work can be checked and reused.