geopandas.GeoSeries.exterior

property GeoSeries.exterior

Returns a GeoSeries of LinearRings representing the outer boundary of each polygon in the GeoSeries.

Applies to GeoSeries containing only Polygons. Returns None` for other geometry types.

See also

GeoSeries.boundary

complete set-theoretic boundary

GeoSeries.interiors

list of inner rings of each polygon

Examples

>>> from shapely.geometry import Polygon, Point
>>> s = geopandas.GeoSeries(
...     [
...         Polygon([(0, 0), (1, 1), (0, 1)]),
...         Polygon([(1, 0), (2, 1), (0, 0)]),
...         Point(0, 1)
...     ]
... )
>>> s
0    POLYGON ((0.00000 0.00000, 1.00000 1.00000, 0....
1    POLYGON ((1.00000 0.00000, 2.00000 1.00000, 0....
2                              POINT (0.00000 1.00000)
dtype: geometry
>>> s.exterior
0    LINEARRING (0.00000 0.00000, 1.00000 1.00000, ...
1    LINEARRING (1.00000 0.00000, 2.00000 1.00000, ...
2                                                 None
dtype: geometry