Kuwait Administrative Boundaries for 6 Governorates

Kuwait administrative boundaries for level 1 (governorates), structured into 6 units. The dataset was created by OCHA ROMENA in 2015, reviewed for accuracy in December 2024, and is part of the global COD-AB collection. It is published by OCHA FIS and HDX under a CC-BY-3.0-IGO license.

Use Cases

• Create thematic maps for humanitarian response based on governorate-level administrative divisions.
• Perform spatial joins for demographic or resource allocation analysis based on the defined boundaries.
• Integrate Kuwait's administrative structure into a global GIS database based on its membership in the COD-AB collection.

Strengths

• Dataset was reviewed for accuracy and completeness on 19 December 2024.
• Boundaries are explicitly created and validated by OCHA, a UN humanitarian agency.
• Available in multiple geospatial formats (GEOJSON, SHP, GEODATABASE) and a spreadsheet (XLSX).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The underlying boundary geometry was created in 2015, which may not reflect recent administrative changes.

Provenance

Source

OCHA Middle East and North Africa (ROMENA) and OCHA Field Information Services (FIS).

Collection Method

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

Time Range

Boundaries created 30 November 2015; dataset valid from 01 February 2022.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-10 09:03:50.421069; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Kuwait, at the national (level 0) and governorate (level 1) scale.