Afghanistan Administrative Boundaries for Provinces and Districts

Afghanistan administrative boundaries for levels 0 to 2, structured into 34 provinces and 401 districts. The dataset was contributed by OCHA Afghanistan, quality assured by OCHA FIS and HDX, and is part of the Global Subnational Administrative Boundaries collection. It was last edited in March 2026 and is valid for use by the humanitarian community.

Use Cases

• Create thematic maps for humanitarian response based on province and district boundaries.
• Conduct spatial analysis of socio-economic indicators across 34 Afghan provinces.
• Support logistics and resource allocation planning using the 401 district units.
• Integrate administrative boundaries into Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for regional studies.

Strengths

• Contains 34 province and 401 district boundaries, providing subnational coverage.
• Explicitly reviewed for accuracy and completeness on 01 June 2025.
• Published under the CC-BY-3.0-IGO license, allowing for open sharing and adaptation.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The humanitarian community uses 401 districts, differing from the 457 units designated by the de-facto authority, indicating a potential coverage gap.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale analysis.

Provenance

Source

OCHA Field Information Services Section (FISS) and HDX, contributed by OCHA Afghanistan.

Collection Method

Likely compiled from official sources and configured for humanitarian use.

Time Range

Boundaries created by the source on 01 May 2019; dataset valid as of June 2025.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-25 09:02:14.783322; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Afghanistan, covering national, provincial, and district levels.