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Simple world map with highlighted countries and selected cities

I would like to draw a world map and to highlight selected countries and cities. The countries and cities will present locations where study data were obtained. Unfortunately, I was able to do this. I could only highlight the countries. How could I add cities as it is shown in magenta, and ultimately the name of the cities or countries?

library(maptools)
data(wrld_simpl)

lat<-c(7,13.3,12,46,38,52.31)
lon<-c(6,16,105,2,23.7,13.23)
cities<-data.frame(lat,lon)
myCountries = wrld_simpl@data$NAME %in% c("Australia",  "Germany",  "Sweden", "Austria")
plot(wrld_simpl, col = c(gray(.90), "red")[myCountries+1])

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Solution

  • The easiest way from here is going to be:

    cities <- coordinates(cities)

plot(wrld_simpl, col = c(gray(.90), "red")[myCountries+1])
points(cities, col = "purple", lwd = 7)

    However, if you need to modify your map at any point (for example to reproject/transform points) you would probably need to look into using vector geometries and sf/rgdal: https://r-spatial.github.io/sf/