Plenty of options, e.g. maps package makes it trivial to pull down data for another region and you have no shortage of projections that work well for other exte

Plenty of options, e.g. maps package makes it trivial to pull down data for another region and you have no shortage of projections that work well for other extents and latitudes, a number you can implement with ggplot2's coord_map(). My main qualm would be geom_raster(), the fast algorithm implemented for gridded data doesn't work with projections too far removed from Cartesian