Looking for Shapefile data of globally distributed features and boundaries for research or project, then you are at the right place. Here you can Download World Shapefile of various boundaries and features for free – Country Boundaries, Continents Polygons Shapefile and more.
Download World Country Boundaries Shapefile
This shapefile covers 195 countries in the world. If you face any problem in downloading, please let us know.
All data available are in EPSG:4326 WGS84 CRS (Coordinate Reference System)
Download World country border Shapefile
You can extract the countries or features of other data using Crop Layer tool available in the map canvas itself or you extract the feature in your desktop QGIS software. Follow this link to learn how to extract features in QGIS.
Convert World Shape file into KML file
Go to the above shapefile link or upload Shapefile of world if you already have then upload shapefile to IGIS Map Tool.

Click on 3 dots shown in image and choose the format of conversion.
All data are updated periodically once in a quarter year. Similarly you may ask or hire us to download a map of water, roads, polygon, buildings, parks of a specific Area from open street map.
If you want data under different license you can also look over to the post : Download Free Shapefile Maps – Country Boundary Polygon, Rail-Road, Water polyline etc
Download Free Shapefile for the following:
- World Data
- Australia
- Argentina
- Brazil
- Canada
- Denmark
- Germany
- India
- Indonesia
- Japan
- Kenya
- Lebanon
- Madagascar
- Malaysia
- Mexico
- Mongolia
- Netherland
- New Zealand
- Nigeria
- Papua New Guinea
- Philippines
- Poland
- Singapore
- South Africa
- South Korea
- Tunisia
- United Kingdom
- United States of America
- Vietnam
- Greece
- Belgium
Download GIS Data of other states of USA
- Alabama States GIS data
- Alaska GIS Data
- Arizona GIS Data
- Arkansas State Shapefile
- California GIS Data
- Colorado State Shapefile
- Connecticut States GIS Data
Disclaimer: If you find any shapefile data of the country provided is incorrect do contact us or comment below, so that we will correct the same in our system.
Not able to find many African countries, including Angola.
I cant download the world shapefile, but I would really like access to it. Can you please help me?
Shape file for Ghana
shape file for Pakistan???
Bonjour, j’ai besoin de savoir comment télécharger un fichier shapefile
Shapefile for Taiwan. I need it
Nigeria shapefile is not available, please what should l do?
Hi,
This webaite is very useful for GIS field. Its great.
I need Pakistan Shapefile which is not available here. So how i can get it?
Next I need air quality , pollution netCDF file. Is it available here? Or Please inform me where or how i can get it. Thank you
Shape file for Afghanistan
can you help me to get chile, latin America.. country division
Do you have also equal projection world map with country boarders? Would be very heplful to me, many thanks!
Tried downloading both shp and kml of world, both links .
Try it again, and it should work for you now.
I NEED WORLD SHAPE FILE…