Congo Subnational Administrative Boundaries for 12 Departments and 89 Districts

Congo administrative boundaries for levels 0 to 2, structured into 12 departments and 89 districts. The dataset was contributed by OCHA West and Central Africa and quality assured by OCHA FIS and HDX. It was last reviewed for accuracy on 30 October 2025 and is part of the Global Subnational Administrative Boundaries collection.

Use Cases

• Create thematic maps for humanitarian response based on the department and district boundaries.
• Conduct spatial analysis of socio-economic indicators aggregated to the admin 1 and admin 2 levels.
• Integrate boundaries into GIS platforms for operational planning and reporting.
• Validate and update local administrative gazetteers using the provided hierarchical structure.

Strengths

• Explicitly structured into 12 admin 1 (department) and 89 admin 2 (district) units.
• Dataset was reviewed for accuracy and completeness on 30 October 2025.
• Published under the CC-BY-3.0-IGO license, facilitating open use and sharing.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale analysis.

Provenance

Source

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

Collection Method

Boundaries created by the source, quality assured, configured, and published by OCHA FIS and HDX.

Time Range

Boundaries created 06 July 2017; dataset valid for use from 17 June 2019.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-10 09:02:20.351389; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Congo (Republic of the Congo).