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Title
Ethiopia - Populated Places GeoNames
Description
This dataset represents populated places in Ethiopia at the locality level, including villages, kebeles, towns, and other administrative divisions. Each entry is associated with XY coordinates and is integrated with Ethiopian administrative boundaries. The data originates from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) and is accessible through their GeoNames platform(https://geonames.nga.mil/geonames/GNSData/).The dataset includes various types of populated areas such as: villages, kebeles and towns. This dataset is crucial for various applications, including urban planning to assist in the development of infrastructure and services based on population distribution, for research, and on disaster management to support humanitarian efforts by identifying populated areas during crises.
Creator
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA)
Publisher
The Centre for Humanitarian Data
Temporal Coverage
2024-12-01 to 2025-01-15
Date Issued
2025-03-07
License
http://www.opendefinition.org/licenses/cc-by
Access Rights
Public
Date Added
March 27, 2025
Provenance Statement
The metadata for this resource was last retrieved from Humanitarian Data Exchange on 2025-08-23.
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) (2025). Ethiopia - Populated Places GeoNames. The Centre for Humanitarian Data. https://data.humdata.org/dataset/7f71b556-5d26-4f4f-b1db-e3fb61da98b9 (dataset)