Natural Earth 110 Cultural Boundaries Attribute Definitions

gistfile1.txt

, scalerank, 1,
, featurecla,  Admin-0 country
, labelrank,  3.000000,
, sovereignt,  Afghanistan
, sov_a3,  AFG
, adm0_dif,  0.000000,
, level,  2.000000,
, type,  Sovereign country
, admin,  Afghanistan
, adm0_a3,  AFG
, geou_dif,  0.000000,
, geounit,  Afghanistan
, gu_a3,  AFG
, su_dif,  0.000000,
, subunit,  Afghanistan
, su_a3,  AFG
, brk_diff,  0.000000,
, name,  Afghanistan
, name_long,  Afghanistan
, brk_a3,  AFG
, brk_name,  Afghanistan
, brk_group,  null,
Country Abbreviation, abbrev,  Afg.
Country Postal, postal,  AF
Formal Name - English, formal_en,  Islamic State of Afghanistan
Formal Name - French, formal_fr,  null,
Note - Administrative, note_adm0,  null,
Note..........., note_brk,  null,
, name_sort,  Afghanistan
, name_alt,  null,
USSD Political World Alternating Neighboring Countries Color, mapcolor7,  5.000000,
USSD Political World Alternating Neighboring Countries Color, mapcolor8,  6.000000,
USSD Political World Alternating Neighboring Countries Color, mapcolor9,  8.000000,
USSD Political World Alternating Neighboring Countries Color, mapcolor13,  7.000000,
Population Estimate, pop_est,  28400000.000000,
GDP Estimate, gdp_md_est,  22270.000000,
Population Current Year, pop_year,  -99.000000,
Year of Last Census, lastcensus,  1979.000000,
GDP Current Year, gdp_year,  -99.000000,
Economical Rank, economy,  7. Least developed region
Income Group Rank, income_grp,  5. Low income
Wikipedia........, wikipedia,  -99.000000,
US Census FIPS Code, fips_10,  null,
Natural Administrative Coding System ISO 3166-1 A-2, iso_a2,  AF
Natural Administrative Coding System ISO 3166-1 A-3, iso_a3,  AFG
Natural Administrative Coding System ISO 3166-1 Num N3, iso_n3, 004
, un_a3, 004
, wb_a2,  AF
, wb_a3,  AFG
, woe_id,  -99.000000,
, adm0_a3_is,  AFG
, adm0_a3_us,  AFG
, adm0_a3_un,  -99.000000,
, adm0_a3_wb,  -99.000000,
Continent, continent,  Asia
, region_un,  Asia
Sub Region, subregion,  Southern Asia
, region_wb,  South Asia
, name_len,  11.000000,
, long_len,  11.000000,
, abbrev_len,  4.000000,
, tiny,  -99.000000,
, homepart, 1

http://www.naturalearthdata.com/forums/topic/definition-variables/#post-4709
http://www.naturalearthdata.com/forums/topic/metadata-for-admin-o-countries-and-their-boundaries/
http://www.naturalearthdata.com/about/data-creation/
http://www.naturalearthdata.com/blog/miscellaneous/let-the-downloads-begin/
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/docs/notesanddefs.html
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/fields/2070.html
http://www.naturalearthdata.com/forums/topic/thematic-codes/
http://www.statoids.com/wab.html
nvkelso/natural-earth-vector#121

Thanks for creating this list. I was searching for over an hour for the list of variables.

no problem! sorry for the delay in responding!