GeoPandas

GeoPandas extends Pandas to enable spatial operations on geometric types through Shapely and Fiona integration.

GeoPandas simplifies geospatial analysis in Python by adding a geometry column to the standard DataFrame. It leverages the speed of NumPy and the spatial logic of GEOS (via Shapely) to execute complex operations like spatial joins, coordinate reference system (CRS) transformations, and geometric buffering. By wrapping the Fiona library for file access, it handles industry-standard formats like Shapefiles and GeoJSON with a single read_file() command. This toolkit is the standard for data scientists needing to perform vectorized spatial queries without the overhead of a dedicated GIS database.

https://geopandas.org