Mauritania Subnational Administrative Boundaries for Levels 0-2

31 October 2024 boundaries for Mauritania, structured into 15 administrative level 1 and 63 administrative level 2 units. The dataset is part of the Global Subnational Administrative Boundaries collection and was quality assured and published by OCHA Field Information Services (FIS) and HDX. It was reviewed for accuracy on 30 October 2025 and is valid for use by the humanitarian community.

Use Cases

• Mapping and visualizing administrative regions based on the defined level 1 and level 2 boundaries.
• Aggregating socio-economic or humanitarian data to administrative units for analysis.
• Performing spatial joins and overlays using the provided geospatial boundaries.
• Supporting disaster response planning and resource allocation by administrative area.

Strengths

• Dataset is explicitly quality assured and published by authoritative organizations OCHA FIS and HDX.
• Contains 15 admin level 1 and 63 admin level 2 boundaries, providing subnational granularity.
• Part of a standardized global collection (COD-AB), suggesting consistent methodology.
• Multiple file formats (GEOJSON, SHP, XLSX, GEODATABASE) are available for different use cases.

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 processing.
• Freshness should be verified as the boundaries were created in October 2024.

Provenance

Source

OCHA Field Information Services Section (FISS)

Collection Method

Likely compiled from official national sources as part of the Common Operational Datasets - Administrative Boundaries (COD - AB) program.

Time Range

Boundaries valid as of 31 October 2024.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-10 09:04:34.128980; boundaries created 31 October 2024.

Geography

Mauritania