Dissolving map boundaries in QGIS and Python

This post describes some interesting processes for transforming the map boundaries in vector datasets using QGIS and geopandas in Python.

Recently, for one of my projects, I had to define the composition of countries in a region, make the region distinct, and highlight it on the map of a continent. Let’s take an example of the South Asia region in Asia. The South Asia region is comprised of eight countries: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. …

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