Dyadic dataset extracted from Gleditsch and Ward (2001). The dataset contains information on the distace between capital cities among independent nation-states.

data(capdist)

Format

A data frame with 41006 rows and 6 variables

Source

Gleditsch, Kristian S., and Michael D. Ward. (2001). "Measuring Space: A Minimum-Distance Database and Applications to International Studies." Journal of Conflict Resolution 38(6): 739-758.

Details

numa

COW code -- country A.

ida

Three letter ISO code -- country A.

numb

COW code -- country B.

idb

Three letter ISO code -- country B.

kmdist

Distance between capital cities in the kilometers.

midist

Minimal distance between capital cities in the kilometers.