LibGuides: Geographic Information Systems (GIS): Find Data

World Data

DIVA-GIS
Download data on any country in the world. Includes: boundaries, roads, railroads, altitudes, land cover, and population density.
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations
Free GIS Data
The Humanitarian Data Exchange
United Nations Environment Programme/GRID-Geneva
The World Bank, Data Catalog
FAO Soils Portal
Natural Earth
High quality global features that are generalized at several scales; good for digital cartography.
DIVA-GIS
Select and download free geographic (GIS) data for any country in the world
USGS Global Visualization Viewer
US federal agency that provides LANDSAT data (global satellite imagery) for the world