<oai_dc:dc xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd"><dc:creator>Madagascar National Disaster Management Office (BNGRC)</dc:creator><dc: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.</dc:description><dc:identifier>cod-ab-mdg</dc:identifier><dc:publisher>Humanitarian Data Exchange</dc:publisher><dc:rights>Public</dc:rights><dc:title>Madagascar - Subnational Administrative Boundaries</dc:title><dc:type>Datasets</dc:type><dc:coverage>Madagascar</dc:coverage><dc:date>2010-12-31 to *</dc:date></oai_dc:dc>