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)

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boundaries, population, cities, geospatial, urbanization

boundaries, kenya, shapefile, geospatial, admin

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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.

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