How to create a map of Denmark with ggmap

If we look at ?borders and, for more into, ?map, we see that we may use the regions argument:

ggplot() + borders(regions = "Denmark", colour = "gray50", fill = "gray50")

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Get the bounds of Denmark in lat-long and use coord_fixed:

ggplot() + borders("world", colour="gray50", fill="gray50") + coord_fixed(xlim=c(7, 12), ylim=c(52, 58))

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You can get the bounds from the map package:

> map("world", "Denmark", plot=FALSE)$range
[1]  8.121484 15.137110 54.628857 57.736916

And you might want to expand these a bit for nicer spacing and more context.

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