Kyrgyzstan Administrative Boundaries for Levels 0 to 3

OCHA Field Information Services Section (FISS) provides a geospatial dataset of Kyrgyzstan's administrative boundaries. It includes 9 provinces, 53 districts, and 737 communities, with data reviewed for accuracy in January 2024. The dataset is part of the Global Subnational Administrative Boundaries collection and is available in formats like GeoJSON and Shapefile.

Use Cases

• Create regional choropleth maps based on the province and district boundaries.
• Perform spatial joins for demographic or economic data based on the community-level polygons.
• Develop country-level basemaps for humanitarian response planning based on the administrative hierarchy.

Strengths

• Contains a structured hierarchy of 9 provinces, 53 districts, and 737 communities.
• Dataset was reviewed for accuracy and completeness on 31 January 2024.
• Published and quality assured by OCHA FIS and HDX, indicating institutional oversight.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Coverage at Admin 2 and Admin 3 levels is noted as partial.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

OCHA Field Information Services Section (FISS)

Collection Method

Boundaries created by the source, with configuration and publishing by OCHA FIS and HDX.

Time Range

Boundaries created 21 November 2018; dataset reviewed 31 January 2024.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-10 09:03:44.520194; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Kyrgyzstan