One row per country with the facts people constantly need and currently scrape together by hand.
Format
A tibble with one row per country and columns including iso3c,
iso2c, country, continent, region, un_region, capital,
capital_lat, capital_lon, centroid_lat, centroid_lon, area_km2,
currency, tld, landlocked, flag.
Assembled from countrycode::codelist, so Kosovo (XKX) has no row –
countrycode has none either. The geometry backends and
convert_country() do handle it; distance_between(), which reads its
centroids from here, does not. Ten further territories have a row but no
centroid or area.
country therefore carries the English names from countrycode
("South Korea", "Congo - Kinshasa"), which differ from the World Bank's for
38 of the 215 countries in world_snapshot ("Korea, Rep.",
"Congo, Dem. Rep."). Each
table is faithful to its own source, so join on iso3c and keep whichever
label you want to display – reconciling the two is what country_join()
is for.