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# Read_file --> Geopandas library uses fiona library which in turn uses GDAL/OGR
world = gpd.read_file("C:/GIS/GIS Data/countries/ne_50m_admin_0_countries.shp")
cities = gpd.read_file(gpd.datasets.get_path('naturalearth_cities'))

# Ploting to check the shapefile
base = world.plot(color='grey')
cities.plot(ax=base, marker='*', color='red', markersize=12);
plt.show()

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{
 "cells": [
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 10,
   "metadata": {},
   "outputs": [],
   "source": [
    "import pandas as pd\n",
    "import geopandas as gpd\n",

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# Read the data- Read Countries --> Geopackage Format

shp = '1-introData/countries.gpkg'
countries = gpd.read_file(shp)

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countries.crs

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# First 5 rows
countries.head()

# Rows and columns of the countries data
countries.shape

# Describtive statistics of the countries data
countries.describe()

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# 2. Read Cities --> Geojson Format
cities = gpd.read_file('1-introData/cities.geojson')

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# Plot overlayed maps
fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(14, 12))
countries.plot(ax=ax)
cities.plot(markersize=0.2, color='red',ax=ax)
plt.show()

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countries.crs