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Africapolis Urban Agglomerations (OECD/SWAC) vs Ghana Subnational Administrative Boundaries (OCHA COD)

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Africapolis Urban Agglomerations (OECD/SWAC)Ghana Subnational Administrative Boundaries (OCHA COD)
Category
Datasets
Datasets
Type
Geographic
Geographic
Country
🌍 Pan-African
🇬🇭 Ghana
Docs status
Docs live
Docs live
Licensing
Pricing
Free / open
Free / CC-BY-IGO
Verified
Unverified
Verified
Last verified
5 Jul 2026
10 Oct 2026
Tags
boundaries, population, cities, geospatial, urbanization
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Links
Website Docs
Website Docs
Summary
Standardised geospatial database of urban agglomerations across all 54 African countries, built from censuses, electoral registers and satellite imagery. Each urban area is a polygon with population and built-up-area attributes, available in 2015 and 2020 versions. Data is downloadable as geospatial vector files from africapolis.org under CC BY 4.0.
Official UN OCHA Common Operational Dataset of Ghana's admin boundaries — national, 16 regions (ADM1), 260 districts (ADM2) — as Shapefile/Geodatabase/GeoJSON, CC-BY-IGO licensed. Mirrors the existing Kenya OCHA-COD entry already in the registry.

Africapolis Urban Agglomerations (OECD/SWAC) vs Ghana Subnational Administrative Boundaries (OCHA COD) at a glance

Africapolis Urban Agglomerations (OECD/SWAC) and Ghana Subnational Administrative Boundaries (OCHA COD) are both listed under Geographic in Wycord's Datasets index.

Africapolis Urban Agglomerations (OECD/SWAC) is based in Pan-African and Ghana Subnational Administrative Boundaries (OCHA COD) in Ghana.

Both currently show the status "Docs live".

On access, both are marked "No approval needed".

Over the last 30 days Wycord's probes measured 100% uptime for Africapolis Urban Agglomerations (OECD/SWAC) (36 checks) and 0% for Ghana Subnational Administrative Boundaries (OCHA COD) (36 checks).

Uptime and latency come from Wycord's own probes of each resource's website, documentation and repository, run every six hours.

How they differ

  • Pricing: Africapolis Urban Agglomerations (OECD/SWAC), Free / open; Ghana Subnational Administrative Boundaries (OCHA COD), Free / CC-BY-IGO.
  • Country: Africapolis Urban Agglomerations (OECD/SWAC), Pan-African; Ghana Subnational Administrative Boundaries (OCHA COD), Ghana.
  • Verification: Africapolis Urban Agglomerations (OECD/SWAC), Unverified; Ghana Subnational Administrative Boundaries (OCHA COD), Verified.
  • 30-day uptime: Africapolis Urban Agglomerations (OECD/SWAC), 100%; Ghana Subnational Administrative Boundaries (OCHA COD), 0%.

Topics

Only Africapolis Urban Agglomerations (OECD/SWAC): boundaries, population, cities, geospatial, urbanization.

Common questions

Which has better uptime, Africapolis Urban Agglomerations (OECD/SWAC) or Ghana Subnational Administrative Boundaries (OCHA COD)?
Africapolis Urban Agglomerations (OECD/SWAC) leads over the last 30 days: Africapolis Urban Agglomerations (OECD/SWAC) 100%, Ghana Subnational Administrative Boundaries (OCHA COD) 0%.
Do Africapolis Urban Agglomerations (OECD/SWAC) or Ghana Subnational Administrative Boundaries (OCHA COD) need approval before use?
Both are marked "No approval needed".
Is the documentation for Africapolis Urban Agglomerations (OECD/SWAC) and Ghana Subnational Administrative Boundaries (OCHA COD) working?
Both show "Docs live" at the last check.
Where are Africapolis Urban Agglomerations (OECD/SWAC) and Ghana Subnational Administrative Boundaries (OCHA COD) based?
Africapolis Urban Agglomerations (OECD/SWAC) is based in Pan-African; Ghana Subnational Administrative Boundaries (OCHA COD) is based in Ghana.

More comparisons

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