Ghana Subnational Administrative Boundaries for Levels 0-2

March 2021 boundaries for Ghana's administrative divisions, structured into 16 regions (Admin 1) and 260 districts (Admin 2). This dataset was contributed by OCHA West and Central Africa, quality assured by OCHA Field Information Services and HDX, and is part of the Global Subnational Administrative Boundaries collection. It was reviewed for accuracy in October 2025.

Use Cases

• Map creation and spatial analysis based on the provided administrative boundaries.
• Regional and district-level data aggregation based on the 16 and 260 administrative units.
• Humanitarian response planning based on the dataset's validation for the humanitarian community.

Strengths

• Contains explicitly defined counts of 16 Admin 1 and 260 Admin 2 units.
• Dataset was reviewed for accuracy and completeness on 30 October 2025.
• Published by authoritative sources OCHA FIS and HDX as part of a global collection.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The boundaries were created in March 2021; demographic or political changes since then are not reflected.

Provenance

Source

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

Collection Method

Boundaries created by the source, quality assured and published.

Time Range

Boundaries created March 2021, reviewed October 2025.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-10 09:02:58.619923; freshness should be verified

Geography

Ghana