Feature collections

Shapefiles in google earth engine

copy and run the script below

// import the country feasture collection
var countries = ee.FeatureCollection('ft:1tdSwUL7MVpOauSgRzqVTOwdfy17KDbw-1d9omPw');
print(countries)
var country_names = ["??"];
// find the countries in the country list
var country = countries.filter(ee.Filter.inList('Country', ??));
// Get the geometry of the countries
var region = country.geometry();

Map.addLayer(region);

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