Dominican Republic Administrative Boundaries for Levels 0 to 4

OCHA Field Information Services (FIS) and HDX provide a geospatial dataset of Dominican Republic administrative boundaries. It contains structured boundaries for 10 regions, 32 provinces or national districts, 155 municipios, and 386 lower-level units. The dataset was reviewed for accuracy in February 2025 and is part of the Global Subnational Administrative Boundaries collection.

Use Cases

• Create administrative maps for the Dominican Republic based on the four structured boundary levels.
• Conduct spatial analysis of regional or municipal data using the provided geospatial boundaries.
• Integrate subnational administrative units into a larger geospatial database as part of the global COD-AB collection.

Strengths

• Contains four clearly defined administrative levels with specific counts: 10 regions, 32 provinces, 155 municipios, and 386 lower-level units.
• Quality assured and published by authoritative organizations OCHA FIS and HDX.
• Part of a standardized global collection (COD-AB), suggesting consistent structure and interoperability.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The description does not specify the exact meaning or full name of the 386 'dm(?)' units at Admin 4.

Provenance

Source

OCHA Field Information Services Section (FISS)

Collection Method

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

Time Range

Boundaries created 06 September 2017; dataset reviewed 17 February 2025.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-10 09:02:38.562133; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Dominican Republic