How many states is including in a country

[WillyCarpio]

Hello everyone,

Actually i need to know how many polygons are inside to other bigger. Example how many states is including in a country.

I am new programming in ArcGis but I see that one way is add one method in Attribute Assistant (.Net)

If you know other way please I thank for any support.

Best regards

Willy Carpio

[RobertScheitlin__GISP]

Willy,

   If you are talking about ArcGIS Desktop then you can use the select by location option in the selection menu in ArcMap.

[WillyCarpio]

Thanks for your response.

[DarrenWiens2]

There are several ways to figure this out - here's another:

1.) Make sure your country file has a field with country name or ID

2.) Spatial Join the countries to the states, based on HAVE_THEIR_CENTER_IN, although the relationship may depend on your data.

3.) Summary Statistics to COUNT the result from #2, case_field = country name or ID.

[WillyCarpio]

Thanks for your response.