Pakistan Populated Places from OpenStreetMap, Including Cities and Residential Areas

OpenStreetMap exports from the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team provide geospatial data for populated places in Pakistan. The dataset includes features tagged as cities, towns, villages, hamlets, isolated dwellings, and residential land use, with attributes like name, population, and location. It was last updated on 2026-03-03 and is available in multiple geospatial formats under the ODbL-1.0 license.

Use Cases

• Mapping settlement hierarchies based on the 'place' attribute (city, town, village, hamlet, isolated_dwelling).
• Analyzing residential land use patterns based on the 'landuse' attribute.
• Estimating population distribution using the 'population' attribute where available.
• Linking place names to administrative units using the 'is_in' attribute.

Strengths

• Data includes multiple settlement types from isolated dwellings to cities.
• Features are available in four common geospatial formats: GEOJSON, SHP, GEOPACKAGE, KML.
• Attributes include multilingual name tags (name:en, name:ur) and population data.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last updated 2026-03-03 09:30:08.141940; freshness should be verified.

Provenance

Source

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)

Collection Method

OpenStreetMap export based on specific tag filters.

Time Range

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Freshness

2026-03-03 09:30:08.141940

Geography

Pakistan