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

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Africapolis Urban Agglomerations (OECD/SWAC)Kenya Subnational Administrative Boundaries (OCHA COD)
Category
Datasets
Datasets
Type
Geographic
Geographic
Country
🌍 Pan-African
🇰🇪 Kenya
Docs status
Docs live
Docs live
Licensing
Pricing
Free / open
Free / open
Verified
Unverified
Verified
Last verified
5 Jul 2026
10 Oct 2026
Tags
boundaries, population, cities, geospatial, urbanization
boundaries, kenya, shapefile, geospatial, admin
Links
Website Docs
Website
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 Common Operational Dataset administrative boundaries for Kenya, from national down through counties, sub-counties and wards. Provided on HDX as Shapefile and other GIS formats, maintained by OCHA together with the government. Free download and openly licensed.

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

Africapolis Urban Agglomerations (OECD/SWAC) and Kenya 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 Kenya Subnational Administrative Boundaries (OCHA COD) in Kenya.

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 86.11% for Kenya Subnational Administrative Boundaries (OCHA COD) (36 checks).

Average response time on live probes was 222 ms for Africapolis Urban Agglomerations (OECD/SWAC) and 279 ms for Kenya Subnational Administrative Boundaries (OCHA COD).

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

How they differ

  • Country: Africapolis Urban Agglomerations (OECD/SWAC), Pan-African; Kenya Subnational Administrative Boundaries (OCHA COD), Kenya.
  • Verification: Africapolis Urban Agglomerations (OECD/SWAC), Unverified; Kenya Subnational Administrative Boundaries (OCHA COD), Verified.
  • 30-day uptime: Africapolis Urban Agglomerations (OECD/SWAC), 100%; Kenya Subnational Administrative Boundaries (OCHA COD), 86.11%.
  • Average latency: Africapolis Urban Agglomerations (OECD/SWAC), 222 ms; Kenya Subnational Administrative Boundaries (OCHA COD), 279 ms.

Topics

Both are tagged: boundaries, geospatial.

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

Only Kenya Subnational Administrative Boundaries (OCHA COD): kenya, shapefile, admin.

Common questions

Which has better uptime, Africapolis Urban Agglomerations (OECD/SWAC) or Kenya Subnational Administrative Boundaries (OCHA COD)?
Africapolis Urban Agglomerations (OECD/SWAC) leads over the last 30 days: Africapolis Urban Agglomerations (OECD/SWAC) 100%, Kenya Subnational Administrative Boundaries (OCHA COD) 86.11%.
Do Africapolis Urban Agglomerations (OECD/SWAC) or Kenya 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 Kenya Subnational Administrative Boundaries (OCHA COD) working?
Both show "Docs live" at the last check.
Where are Africapolis Urban Agglomerations (OECD/SWAC) and Kenya Subnational Administrative Boundaries (OCHA COD) based?
Africapolis Urban Agglomerations (OECD/SWAC) is based in Pan-African; Kenya Subnational Administrative Boundaries (OCHA COD) is based in Kenya.

More comparisons

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