Generating a World Map Shapefile in QGIS

In this video, you will learn how to generate an ESRI Shapefile of the world using QGIS just in a few clicks.

Not many of you might know that when we install QGIS on our PC or Mac, a vector map of the entire world in GeoPackage (.gpkg) format gets installed into one of the program folders of QGIS. In this tutorial, I'm showing you how to access that file, and then use that world map vector file to then go and do your own custom edits such as exporting it into a separate Shapefile, and creating Shapefiles of only areas that are relevant to you etc.

By inspecting the attributes table, you will see that all the countries are correctly labelled as well, which means you could start displaying the names of the countries on your map instantly too!

[WineWorldTV]

This is fantastic! Great for my Google Earth Pro wine growing areas mapping project. It would be even better if QGIS had some kind of file for each county's administrative divisions.

[nonomnismoriar]

Boss level video, thanks very much!!!!

[sallylunght]

It's a good nice video thank you so much

[BoyceBailey]

Thats gold..
Can you go another layer deeper so we have the world but a country is broken into States/Districts or any administrative geography within Administrative geographies? Motivated to pick up QGIS after seeing this. Thank you.

[space-time-somdeep]

Sir can we save our shape files saved as geopacages in that QGIS folder, so that we can type the name like 'world' and it will load automatically

[samsonlweendo]

Please please explain how to interpret the elevation profile in GOOGLE EARTH PRO all the numbers [please I will be greatful thank you

[thefutureisnow]

The resolution is very poor. How to get 1" data for boundaries?

[gouravgahlawat]

tutorial video thanks to GEODELTA LABS