Benin Subnational Administrative Boundaries for Levels 0-2

30 October 2025 marks the latest review for accuracy and completeness of this dataset. It contains geospatial boundaries for Benin at the national (Admin 0), regional (Admin 1), and local (Admin 2) levels, contributed and quality assured by OCHA humanitarian organizations. The dataset is part of the global COD-AB collection and is available in multiple formats including GeoJSON and Shapefile.

Use Cases

• Create regional maps for humanitarian planning based on the defined administrative boundaries.
• Aggregate socio-economic statistics by region based on the Admin 1 and Admin 2 divisions.
• Perform spatial joins with other datasets using the provided geographic boundaries.
• Develop basemaps for Benin using the official administrative subdivisions.

Strengths

• Contains boundaries for 12 Admin 1 and 77 Admin 2 units, providing subnational detail.
• Quality assured and published by authoritative humanitarian organizations (OCHA FIS, HDX).
• Available in multiple standard geospatial formats (GeoJSON, SHP, XLSX, Geodatabase).
• Part of a standardized global collection (COD-AB), suggesting consistent methodology.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The underlying source data for boundaries was created in August 2015, which may not reflect recent territorial changes.
• Row count and file size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

OCHA West and Central Africa (ROWCA), OCHA Field Information Services (FIS), HDX

Collection Method

Created and maintained as part of the Common Operational Datasets - Administrative Boundaries (COD-AB) global program.

Time Range

Boundaries created 07 August 2015; dataset reviewed 30 October 2025.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-10 09:01:14.997388; freshness should be verified against source creation date.

Geography

Benin (national and subnational)