Mali Subnational Administrative Boundaries for 20 Regions and 160 Cercles

160 administrative units at the Cercle level and 20 at the Region level provide the subnational boundaries for Mali. The dataset is part of the Global Subnational Administrative Boundaries collection, quality assured and published by OCHA Field Information Services (FIS) and HDX. It was last edited in May 2025 and is valid for use by the humanitarian community as of September 2025.

Use Cases

• Map humanitarian aid coverage based on administrative region boundaries.
• Conduct population density analysis aggregated to the Cercle level.
• Perform spatial joins for socio-economic data using the 20 Region features.
• Create base maps for disaster response planning in Mali.

Strengths

• Explicitly structured into 2 administrative levels with defined feature counts (20 Regions, 160 Cercles).
• Quality assured and published by authoritative humanitarian organizations (OCHA FIS and HDX).
• Dataset is part of a global standardized collection (COD-AB), suggesting consistent methodology.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale analysis.
• Data may reflect geographic or institutional bias inherent to the humanitarian data source.

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

Dataset dates range from February to September 2025.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-10 09:04:20.446540; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Mali