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Madagascar - Subnational Administrative Boundaries

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Madagascar - Subnational Administrative Boundaries
Description
Madagascar administrative level 0-4 boundaries (COD-AB) dataset. The date that these administrative boundaries were established is unknown. NOTE: It is understood that there may have been administrative level 2, 3, and 4 changes. The OCHA Regional Office is inquiring about official information. Slight differences in the post-2009 total populations at the fokontany, commune, district and country levels are as a result of rounding of decimal places from the population growth. estimate calculations for 2010 to 2018. This COD-AB was most recently reviewed for accuracy and necessary changes in March 2024. The COD-AB requires improvements. Sourced from Madagascar National Disaster Management Office (BNGRC) Vetting by Information Technology Outreach Services (ITOS) with funding from USAID. This COD-AB is suitable for database or GIS linkage to the Madagascar [COD-PS](https://data.humdata.org/dataset/cod-ps-mdg). As this is an island country, no edge-matched (COD-EM) version of this COD-AB is required. Please see the [COD Portal](https://cod.unocha.org/). Administrative level 1 contains 22 feature(s). The normal administrative level 1 feature type is ""Region"". Administrative level 2 contains 119 feature(s). The normal administrative level 2 feature type is ""District"". Administrative level 3 contains 1,579 feature(s). The normal administrative level 3 feature type is ""Commune"". Administrative level 4 contains 17,465 feature(s). The normal administrative level 4 feature type is ""Fokontany"". Recommended cartographic projection: Africa Albers Equal Area Conic This metadata was last updated on January 13, 2025.
Creator
Madagascar National Disaster Management Office (BNGRC)
Publisher
The Centre for Humanitarian Data
Temporal Coverage
2010-12-31 to *
Date Issued
2015-10-16
License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/legalcode
Access Rights
Public
Date Added
December 19, 2023
Provenance Statement
The metadata for this resource was last retrieved from Humanitarian Data Exchange on 2025-08-23.

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    Madagascar National Disaster Management Office (BNGRC) (2015). Madagascar - Subnational Administrative Boundaries. The Centre for Humanitarian Data. https://data.humdata.org/dataset/26fa506b-0727-4d9d-a590-d2abee21ee22 (dataset)
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