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Africapolis Urban Agglomerations (OECD/SWAC) vs LGA Boundaries (GRID3)

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Africapolis Urban Agglomerations (OECD/SWAC)LGA Boundaries (GRID3)
Category
Datasets
Datasets
Type
Geographic
Geographic
Country
🌍 Pan-African
🇳🇬 Nigeria
Docs status
Docs live
Docs live
Licensing
Pricing
Free / open
Free
Verified
Unverified
Verified
Last verified
5 Jul 2026
10 Oct 2026
Tags
boundaries, population, cities, geospatial, urbanization
geographic, boundaries, gis
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.
Authoritative, OSGOF-backed LGA boundary polygons for all 36 states plus FCT (Dec 2020) in GeoJSON/SHP, no auth required.

Africapolis Urban Agglomerations (OECD/SWAC) vs LGA Boundaries (GRID3) at a glance

Africapolis Urban Agglomerations (OECD/SWAC) and LGA Boundaries (GRID3) are both listed under Geographic in Wycord's Datasets index.

Africapolis Urban Agglomerations (OECD/SWAC) is based in Pan-African and LGA Boundaries (GRID3) in Nigeria.

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 100% for LGA Boundaries (GRID3) (36 checks).

Average response time on live probes was 222 ms for Africapolis Urban Agglomerations (OECD/SWAC) and 503 ms for LGA Boundaries (GRID3).

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; LGA Boundaries (GRID3), Free.
  • Country: Africapolis Urban Agglomerations (OECD/SWAC), Pan-African; LGA Boundaries (GRID3), Nigeria.
  • Verification: Africapolis Urban Agglomerations (OECD/SWAC), Unverified; LGA Boundaries (GRID3), Verified.
  • Average latency: Africapolis Urban Agglomerations (OECD/SWAC), 222 ms; LGA Boundaries (GRID3), 503 ms.

Topics

Both are tagged: boundaries.

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

Only LGA Boundaries (GRID3): geographic, gis.

Common questions

Which has better uptime, Africapolis Urban Agglomerations (OECD/SWAC) or LGA Boundaries (GRID3)?
They are level at 100% over the last 30 days.
Do Africapolis Urban Agglomerations (OECD/SWAC) or LGA Boundaries (GRID3) need approval before use?
Both are marked "No approval needed".
Is the documentation for Africapolis Urban Agglomerations (OECD/SWAC) and LGA Boundaries (GRID3) working?
Both show "Docs live" at the last check.
Where are Africapolis Urban Agglomerations (OECD/SWAC) and LGA Boundaries (GRID3) based?
Africapolis Urban Agglomerations (OECD/SWAC) is based in Pan-African; LGA Boundaries (GRID3) is based in Nigeria.

More comparisons

Full details: Africapolis Urban Agglomerations (OECD/SWAC)Full details: LGA Boundaries (GRID3)