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Chikyu Earth地球

A line-drawn globe of the world's countries that turns at the Earth's own rate, with an optional realistic Earth from space and markers for any place.

Chikyu is the Japanese word 地球 for the Earth. About the name

Contents

Reference · Printable sheets: the globe and a world map to colour, my country, day and night, the seasons

CountryShapetype

One country as the sheets draw it: its names, its continent, its land as one feature and the names of the countries it touches.

Import it

import type { CountryShape } from "@johnmorrisdotca/chikyu-earth/sheets";

Definition

interface CountryShape {
    name: string;
    ja: string;
    alpha2: string | null;
    continent: ContinentId;
    feature: Feature<MultiPolygon>;
    neighbours: {
        name: string;
        ja: string;
    }[];
}

Members

NameTypeDescription
namestring
jastring
alpha2string | null
continentContinentId
featureFeature<MultiPolygon, GeoJsonProperties>

The main land and the nearby islands as one feature.

neighbours{ name: string; ja: string; }[]

The names of the countries it shares a border with, English and Japanese.

Examples

import { countryShape, type CountryShape } from "@johnmorrisdotca/chikyu-earth/sheets";

const spain: CountryShape | undefined = countryShape("ES");
console.log(spain?.neighbours.map((one) => one.name));
[ 'France', 'Portugal' ]

What it prints (run when this page was built)

View sourceEdit on GitHubMade from the source of @johnmorrisdotca/chikyu-earth 0.51.1.