Africapolis Urban Agglomerations (OECD/SWAC)
Built by OECD
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.
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- 🌍 Pan-African
- Last verified
- 5 Jul 2026
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- 10 Jul 2026 · live
- 7 Jul 2026 · live
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