GeoPandas extends pandas with support for geospatial data types and operations, enabling spatial analysis and geographic data manipulation in Python. Built on shapely, fiona, and pyproj, GeoPandas provides GeoDataFrame and GeoSeries structures that seamlessly integrate spatial geometries with tabular data. This makes it the go-to library for reading geospatial file formats, performing coordinate transformations, executing spatial joins and overlays, and creating publication-quality maps.

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