Afghanistan Populated Places from OpenStreetMap

Afghanistan settlements and residential areas exported from OpenStreetMap. The data includes named cities, towns, villages, suburbs, and residential land, sourced from the collaborative OpenStreetMap project. It was last updated on 2026-05-12.

Use Cases

• Map settlement distribution for demographic context based on named places.
• Target humanitarian or development interventions based on residential landuse data.
• Analyze population patterns using the categorized place and landuse features.

Strengths

• Data is sourced from OpenStreetMap, a widely-used global collaborative mapping project.
• Includes multiple geographic file formats (GEOPACKAGE, KML, SHP, GEOJSON, JSON) for interoperability.
• Explicitly includes both named places (`place=*`) and residential land areas (`landuse=residential`).

Limitations

• Completeness varies by region; remote areas may be incompletely mapped.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

OpenStreetMap

Collection Method

Volunteer-contributed mapping via the OpenStreetMap platform.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-12 12:04:48.242798; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Afghanistan