Egypt Populated Places and Residential Areas from OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap features for Egypt matching populated place types and residential land use. The dataset includes attributes like name, population, and place classification, exported by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team. It was last updated on March 3, 2026.

Use Cases

• Map settlement hierarchies based on the 'place' attribute (city, town, village, hamlet, isolated_dwelling).
• Analyze residential land use distribution using the 'landuse' attribute.
• Geocode locations using multilingual name fields ('name', 'name:en', 'name:ar').
• Estimate population distribution for settlements where the 'population' attribute is populated.

Strengths

• Includes multilingual place names ('name:en', 'name:ar').
• Covers multiple settlement types from cities to isolated dwellings.
• Available in multiple geospatial formats (GEOJSON, SHP, GEOPACKAGE, KML).

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to OpenStreetMap volunteer contributions.

Provenance

Source

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)

Collection Method

Export of features from the OpenStreetMap database matching specific tags.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-03 09:52:12.246987; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Egypt