dcat:Dataset The 2014 cartographic boundary shapefiles are simplified representations of selected geographic areas from the U.S. Census Bureau's Master Address File / Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing (MAF/TIGER) Database (MTDB). These boundary files are specifically designed for small-scale thematic mapping. When possible, generalization is performed with the intent to maintain the hierarchical relationships among geographies and to maintain the alignment of geographies within a file set for a given year. Geographic areas may not align with the same areas from another year. Some geographies are available as nation-based shapefiles while others are available only as state-based files. States and equivalent entities are the primary governmental divisions of the United States. In addition to the fifty States, the Census Bureau treats the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and each of the Island Areas (American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands) as the statistical equivalents of States for the purpose of data presentation. Boundaries 2014 Cartographic Boundary Generalized Shapefile State 201505 Cartographic Products Branch Geography Division U.S. Census Bureau U.S. Department of Commerce U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Census Bureau, Geography Division/Cartographic Products Branch geo.geography@census.gov cb_2013_us_state_500k.xml public 006:07 006-010 type Polygon coordinates -179.148909 71.365162 179.77847 -14.548699 179.77847 71.365162 -179.148909 -14.548699 -179.148909 71.365162 201505 201506 irregular en-US dcat:Distribution http://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/GENZ2014/cb_2013_us_state_500k.zip PK-ZIP, version 1.93A or higher cb_2013_us_state_500k.zip