Congo Populated Places from OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap settlements and residential areas for the Congo region. The data includes named cities, towns, villages, suburbs, and residential land, sourced from a collaborative volunteer mapping project. It was last updated on 2026-05-14 by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team.

Use Cases

• Demographic context analysis based on settlement locations and types.
• Settlement-level targeting for humanitarian or development projects based on residential land areas.
• Population distribution mapping based on the density of named places.

Strengths

• Data is derived from OpenStreetMap, a widely-used global collaborative mapping project.
• Covers multiple settlement types including cities, towns, villages, suburbs, and residential land.
• Available in multiple geospatial file formats including GEOPACKAGE, KML, SHP, and GEOJSON.

Limitations

• Completeness varies by region; urban areas are usually well-mapped, remote areas may be incomplete.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

OpenStreetMap

Collection Method

Volunteer-contributed mapping data exported via the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT).

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-14 11:40:24.300550

Geography

Congo