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GeoEntities
  • See Also
    • GeoIdentify
    • GeoWithinQ
    • GeoNearest
    • GeoGroup
    • GeoVariant
    • CountryData
    • AdministrativeDivisionData
  • Related Guides
    • Geodesy
    • Geographic Data & Entities
    • WDF (Wolfram Data Framework)
    • See Also
      • GeoIdentify
      • GeoWithinQ
      • GeoNearest
      • GeoGroup
      • GeoVariant
      • CountryData
      • AdministrativeDivisionData
    • Related Guides
      • Geodesy
      • Geographic Data & Entities
      • WDF (Wolfram Data Framework)

GeoEntities[reg,enttype]

gives a list of the geographic entities of type enttype contained in the extended region reg.

GeoEntities[reg]

gives a list of the geographic regions of any type contained in reg.

Details and Options
Details and Options Details and Options
Examples  
Basic Examples  
Scope  
Geographic Data  
Historical Data  
Options  
"FullyContained"  
Properties & Relations  
See Also
Related Guides
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BUILT-IN SYMBOL
  • See Also
    • GeoIdentify
    • GeoWithinQ
    • GeoNearest
    • GeoGroup
    • GeoVariant
    • CountryData
    • AdministrativeDivisionData
  • Related Guides
    • Geodesy
    • Geographic Data & Entities
    • WDF (Wolfram Data Framework)
    • See Also
      • GeoIdentify
      • GeoWithinQ
      • GeoNearest
      • GeoGroup
      • GeoVariant
      • CountryData
      • AdministrativeDivisionData
    • Related Guides
      • Geodesy
      • Geographic Data & Entities
      • WDF (Wolfram Data Framework)

GeoEntities

GeoEntities[reg,enttype]

gives a list of the geographic entities of type enttype contained in the extended region reg.

GeoEntities[reg]

gives a list of the geographic regions of any type contained in reg.

Details and Options

  • In GeoEntities[reg,enttype], reg can be any extended geo region, including geo entities of domains such as "City", "Country" or "HistoricalCountry"; Dated[…] objects; GeoVariant[…] expressions or extended GeoGraphics primitives.
  • In GeoEntities[reg,enttype], enttype can be specified as an Entity object, such as Entity["Country"], or as a string, such as "City".
  • Valid forms of enttype include:
  • "AdministrativeDivision"administrative division of any level
    "AdministrativeDivision1"first-level administrative division
    "AdministrativeDivision2"second-level administrative division
    "AdministrativeDivision3"third-level administrative division
    "Airport"airports
    "Bridge"bridges
    "Building"buildings
    "City"city
    "Country"country, territory, etc.
    "HistoricalCountry"historical countries, regions, empires, etc.
    "MilitaryConflict"military conflicts
    "Mountain"mountains
    "Ocean"oceans
    "USCounty"US counties
    "USState"US states
    "Volcano"volcanoes
    "ZIPCode"US ZIP codes
    Dated[enttype,date]entities of type enttype restricted by date
    Except[ent,enttype]entities other than ent of type enttype
    GeoVariant[enttype,variant]entities using variant regions
    EntityClass["type","class"]individual members of class
    enttype1|enttype2|…any of the enttypei
    Allany possible type
  • GeoEntities[reg,Dated[enttype,date]] returns a list of Dated[entity,date] objects.
  • GeoEntities[reg,GeoVariant[enttype,variant]] returns a list of GeoVariant[entity,variant] objects.

Examples

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Basic Examples  (4)

The mountains in Israel:

Famous buildings in the city of Dallas, Texas:

Cities in a particular coordinate rectangle:

Find the first-level administrative divisions in the contiguous United States:

The list also includes the District of Columbia:

Scope  (12)

Geographic Data  (7)

All entities in ZIP code 61801:

Find mountains and bridges in Vermont:

Administrative divisions other than Manhattan that intersect New York City:

Bridges in several cities:

Find the countries a given polygon partially overlaps:

Draw a map showing the polygon and countries:

By default, the country geo entities of Greenland only include Greenland itself:

With the "AllAreas" geo variant, Denmark is also included:

The geo bounds region around Greenland also includes Canada and Iceland:

Again, only Denmark is added when using the "AllAreas" geo variant:

Determine the G7 countries inside the specified latitude/longitude region:

Historical Data  (5)

Find the military conflicts that happened in the Roman Republic at any time in its history:

Use Dated to restrict the historical entity to a specific date or interval:

Using Dated with the entity type will return results specifying the date of spatial overlap:

Using a non-historical entity with a historical entity type will compute overlaps, ignoring date information:

Restrict the search to a given date range using Dated with the entity type:

Use Dated[enttype,All] to return the periods of overlap for all historical entities:

Find the military conflicts that occurred between years 100 and 600 in the given geo rectangle:

Options  (1)

"FullyContained"  (1)

By default, an entity is considered to be inside the region if the two intersect:

The option "FullyContained"->True excludes entities that cover only a portion of the location:

Properties & Relations  (3)

GeoEntities always returns a list:

The list may be empty:

For extended locations loc, GeoEntities[loc,enttype] is essentially equivalent to GeoIdentify[enttype,loc]:

GeoEntities only includes entities that overlap the region:

GeoNearest includes all entities, if any, at zero distance from an extended region:

See Also

GeoIdentify  GeoWithinQ  GeoNearest  GeoGroup  GeoVariant  CountryData  AdministrativeDivisionData

Related Guides

    ▪
  • Geodesy
  • ▪
  • Geographic Data & Entities
  • ▪
  • WDF (Wolfram Data Framework)

History

Introduced in 2014 (10.0) | Updated in 2024 (14.1)

Wolfram Research (2014), GeoEntities, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/GeoEntities.html (updated 2024).

Text

Wolfram Research (2014), GeoEntities, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/GeoEntities.html (updated 2024).

CMS

Wolfram Language. 2014. "GeoEntities." Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Wolfram Research. Last Modified 2024. https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/GeoEntities.html.

APA

Wolfram Language. (2014). GeoEntities. Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Retrieved from https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/GeoEntities.html

BibTeX

@misc{reference.wolfram_2025_geoentities, author="Wolfram Research", title="{GeoEntities}", year="2024", howpublished="\url{https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/GeoEntities.html}", note=[Accessed: 01-December-2025]}

BibLaTeX

@online{reference.wolfram_2025_geoentities, organization={Wolfram Research}, title={GeoEntities}, year={2024}, url={https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/GeoEntities.html}, note=[Accessed: 01-December-2025]}

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