This layer (counties.tab) contains polygon objects that represent the county boundaries of the United States. They are displayed as light gray filled regions with dashed borders. The image below illustrates the nycounties.tab - i.e. county boundaries of the New York (NY) state of USA.
Associated data includes the two-letter State FIPS code and the 5-digit Federal
Information Processing (FIPS) code that uniquely identifies each county.
Table description for counties.tab:
| Field Name | Data Type (Length) | Index | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| SMARTLABEL | CHAR (100) | No | Formatted name |
| NAME | CHAR (100) | No | Name of feature |
| NAME_LNG | CHAR (3) | No | 3-character ISO language code |
| A1_ABBREV | CHAR (2) | No | 2 character state abbreviation |
| A2_CODE | CHAR (5) | No | Numeric code combination of the state fips and county fips codes |
| AREA_METERS | FLOAT | No | Feature area in square meters |
| PERIMETER_METERS | FLOAT | No | Perimeter of feature in meters |
| MICODE | INTEGER | No | MapInfo feature code |
| ID | CHAR (36) | No | Universally unique feature identifier |
| LONGITUDE | FLOAT | No | Feature centroid longitude |
| LATITUDE | FLOAT | No | Feature centroid latitude |