Poland Administrative Boundaries for Levels 0-2, 2022-2024

18 December 2024 marks the latest review of this dataset containing subnational administrative boundaries for Poland. It includes 16 Admin 1 and 380 Admin 2 units, structured by OCHA Field Information Services (FIS) and HDX. The dataset is part of the Global Subnational Administrative Boundaries collection and was last edited in April 2022.

Use Cases

• Create thematic maps based on administrative divisions mentioned in the description.
• Perform spatial joins for demographic or economic data based on the defined Admin 1 and Admin 2 boundaries.
• Support humanitarian response planning based on the dataset's validation for humanitarian use.
• Integrate into a global administrative boundaries database based on its membership in the global COD-AB collection.

Strengths

• Contains 16 Admin 1 and 380 Admin 2 units, providing detailed subnational coverage.
• Explicitly reviewed for accuracy and completeness on 18 December 2024.
• Validated for use by the humanitarian community, indicating a quality assurance process.
• Part of a standardized global collection (COD-AB), suggesting interoperability.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The underlying boundary geometry was created in April 2022, which may not reflect recent administrative changes.

Provenance

Source

OCHA Field Information Services Section (FISS) and HDX.

Collection Method

Quality assured, configured, and published by OCHA FIS and HDX.

Time Range

Boundaries created April 2022; dataset reviewed December 2024.

Freshness

Last metadata update was 2026-03-10; boundary geometry dates from April 2022.

Geography

Poland.