Burkina Faso Administrative Boundaries for 17 Regions, 47 Provinces, and 351 Communes

A 2025 dataset provides geospatial boundaries for Burkina Faso's administrative divisions. It includes 17 regions (Admin 1), 47 provinces (Admin 2), and 351 communes (Admin 3), contributed by OCHA Burkina Faso and published by OCHA FIS and HDX. The underlying boundaries were created in March 2020.

Use Cases

• Map humanitarian operations based on the defined administrative regions and communes.
• Conduct spatial analysis of socio-economic indicators based on the province-level boundaries.
• Create choropleth maps for regional data based on the provided geospatial files.
• Integrate administrative units into a larger geodatabase for West Africa based on the dataset's global collection context.

Strengths

• Contains 415 distinct administrative units across three hierarchical levels.
• Quality assured and configured by OCHA Field Information Services (FIS) and HDX.
• Available in multiple geospatial formats (GEOJSON, SHP, GEODATABASE) and a tabular format (XLSX).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The underlying boundaries are from March 2020, though the dataset was edited in July 2025.

Provenance

Source

OCHA Burkina Faso, OCHA Field Information Services Section (FISS), HDX.

Collection Method

Part of the Global Subnational Administrative Boundaries (COD-AB) collection.

Time Range

Boundaries created March 2020; dataset valid for use from August 2025.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-10 09:01:18.085605; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Burkina Faso.