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Layer 1: Context

1.1. Administrative boundaries

You should have a good understanding of how administrative boundaries are defined within your city. That generally means that you should find out how your country is subdivided. Countries are often subdivided into provinces, states, or departments, which can then be broken down even further. Cities are often a specific administrative entities that form part of a bigger set. We encourage you to locate the national subdivisions first, and to try and locate the shapefiles of each of the administrative levels within the country. Loading the boundaries for all subdivisions within your country will make it much easier to aggregate up or scale down national data in the system. If you are unsure what the official subdivision in your country is and which entity manages these boundaries, we suggest you look at Wikipedia, where "Administrative divisions in COUNTRYNAME" often yields good results. See an example here.

Before you start looking for this, check to make sure we don't already have data for your country. See the existing subdivisions here. NOTE: you do not need to look for shapefiles of the country itself as all national boundaries have already been loaded into our system.

Inventory

Title Type Author(s) Year
Countries in the world, version 5.1.1 Shapefile Natural Earth 2022 Add image
NUTS 1 - 2016 Shapefile EUROSTAT 2020 Add image
NUTS 2 - 2016 Shapefile EUROSTAT 2020 Add image
NUTS 2021 Shapefile EUROSTAT 2020 Add image
NUTS 3 - 2016 Shapefile EUROSTAT 2020 Add image
Urban Audit 2020 Shapefile EUROSTAT 2020 Add image
Local Administrative Units 2019 Shapefile EUROSTAT 2019 Add image
NUTS 2016 Shapefile EUROSTAT 2019 Add image
Local Administrative Units 2018 Shapefile EUROSTAT 2018 Add image
United States Counties Division Shapefile U.S. Census Bureau 2018 Add image
United States States Division Shapefile U.S. Census Bureau 2018 Add image
Urban Audit 2018 Shapefile EUROSTAT 2018 Add image
Local Administrative Units 2017 Shapefile EUROSTAT 2017 Add image
Local Administrative Units 2016 Shapefile EUROSTAT 2016 Add image
NUTS 2013 Shapefile EUROSTAT 2015 Add image
Urban Audit 2014 Shapefile EUROSTAT 2014 Add image
NUTS 2010 Shapefile EUROSTAT 2012 Add image
NUTS 2006 Shapefile EUROSTAT 2008 Add image
NUTS 2003 Shapefile EUROSTAT 2005 Add image

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