Country data disclaimer

OpenAQ labels monitoring locations with a country label based on the Natural Earth Admin 0 10m dataset v5.1.2. These boundaries may not be able to correctly label every station and may require manual or “fuzzy” matching due to the coarse precision of the data and differences in the precision of reported coordinates.

OpenAQ uses the country label from the Natural Earth dataset to label monitoring locations in a consistent way. This is intended only to provide some an approximated country label to ease the discovery of data. Definitions of international boundaries can be complex, dependent on worldview, and politically polarizing. The use of these boundaries does not constitute or imply their endorsement by OpenAQ. Read more about Natural Earth’s disputed boundaries policy at https://www.naturalearthdata.com/about/disputed-boundaries-policy.