Cambodia Administrative Boundaries for Levels 0-3, 2024 Review

25 provinces, 197 districts, and 1,633 communes comprise the subnational administrative boundaries for Cambodia. The dataset was contributed by OCHA Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, quality assured by OCHA FIS and HDX, and reviewed for accuracy on 31 October 2024. It is part of the Global Subnational Administrative Boundaries collection.

Use Cases

• Map creation and spatial analysis based on the three-level administrative hierarchy.
• Population or resource allocation modeling based on defined provincial, district, and commune boundaries.
• Integrating socio-economic data with standardized geographic units for Cambodia.
• Validating or updating other geographic datasets against official administrative divisions.

Strengths

• Contains 1,633 distinct commune-level boundaries, providing fine-grained spatial detail.
• Explicitly reviewed for accuracy and completeness on 31 October 2024.
• Published under the CC-BY-3.0-IGO license, facilitating open use and sharing.
• Available in multiple geospatial formats (GEOJSON, SHP, GEODATABASE) for tool flexibility.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The underlying boundary geometry was created on 01 January 2018, which may not reflect recent changes.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale processing.

Provenance

Source

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

Collection Method

Likely compiled from official national sources for humanitarian operational purposes.

Time Range

Boundaries created 01 January 2018; dataset valid from 04 October 2018.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-10 09:03:47.686879; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Cambodia