Afghanistan Administrative Boundaries at Three Subnational Levels

GeoJSON and SHP files contain Afghanistan's administrative boundaries at ADM0 (country), ADM1, and ADM2 levels. The data is produced and maintained by geoBoundaries, an open license global database of political boundaries. The dataset was last updated on 2026-05-17.

Use Cases

• Create choropleth maps based on ADM1 or ADM2 level administrative units.
• Join statistical data to geographic regions using the provided boundary polygons.
• Perform spatial analysis on Afghanistan's internal political divisions.
• Generate base maps for country-level or regional-level visualizations.

Strengths

• Data is produced and maintained since 2017, indicating ongoing curation.
• Available in multiple open geospatial formats (GEOJSON, SHP).
• Covers three hierarchical administrative levels (ADM0, ADM1, ADM2).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

geoBoundaries Global Database of Political Administrative Boundaries Database

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-17 10:16:13.634653; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Afghanistan