Bangladesh Administrative Boundaries for 8 Divisions, 64 Districts, and 507 Upazilas

507 subnational administrative units across three hierarchical levels define the geographic structure of Bangladesh. The dataset, contributed by OCHA Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific and quality-assured by OCHA FIS and HDX, is part of the global COD-AB collection. Its boundaries were created in 2010 and it was reviewed for accuracy in June 2025.

Use Cases

• Create thematic maps for humanitarian response based on the hierarchical administrative divisions.
• Aggregate socio-economic statistics to district or upazila levels based on the defined boundaries.
• Perform spatial joins for location-based analysis using the provided geospatial features.
• Develop gazetteer services for Bangladesh based on the named administrative units.

Strengths

• Contains 579 distinct administrative features across three levels (8, 64, 507).
• Quality assured and published by authoritative organizations (OCHA FIS and HDX).
• Available in multiple standard geospatial formats (GEOJSON, SHP, GEODATABASE).
• Explicitly reviewed for accuracy and completeness on 01 June 2025.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The dataset's temporal coverage is static, with boundaries created in 2010.

Provenance

Source

OCHA Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (ROAP), OCHA Field Information Services (FIS), and HDX.

Collection Method

Part of the structured Common Operational Datasets - Administrative Boundaries (COD-AB) global collection.

Time Range

Boundaries created 01 January 2010.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-10 09:01:21.126487; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Bangladesh.