Australian State Boundaries With Legal Identifiers

State boundaries and their legal identifiers derived from state and territory cadastre data. The dataset is part of the Geoscape Administrative Boundaries product built by Geoscape Australia using authoritative government sources. It was updated as of November 2019 with options for GDA94 or GDA2020 geodetic datums.

Use Cases

• Map state-level administrative units using the legal identifier and geometry fields.
• Perform spatial joins with other Australian datasets using the state boundary geometry.
• Analyze the spatial relationship between state boundaries and other Geoscape themes like local government areas or electoral boundaries.

Strengths

• Derived from authoritative state and territory cadastre data.
• Offers data in two geodetic datums (GDA94 and GDA2020) for coordinate reference flexibility.
• Part of a larger collection containing seven boundary themes like ABS and electoral boundaries.

Limitations

• Specific row counts and dataset size are unknown.
• The core data snapshot is from November 2019, which may not reflect recent boundary changes.

Provenance

Source

Geoscape Australia, using cadastre data from each Australian state and territory jurisdiction.

Collection Method

Derived from authoritative government cadastre data.

Freshness

Data snapshot from November 2019; metadata updated April 2026.

Geography

Australia.