Populated Places in Qatar from OpenStreetMap

Settlements and residential areas in Qatar exported from OpenStreetMap. The data includes named cities, towns, villages, suburbs, and residential land use areas. It was last updated on 2026-05-14 and is provided by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team.

Use Cases

• Conduct demographic context analysis based on settlement locations.
• Perform settlement-level targeting for humanitarian or commercial projects.
• Analyze population distribution based on residential land use areas.
• Map urban and rural settlement patterns for regional planning.

Strengths

• Data is sourced from OpenStreetMap, a widely-used collaborative mapping project.
• Includes multiple geographic file formats (GEOPACKAGE, KML, SHP, GEOJSON, JSON).
• Covers a specific geographic region (Qatar) for focused analysis.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Completeness varies by region; remote areas may be incomplete.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

OpenStreetMap

Collection Method

Volunteer-contributed mapping data exported via the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT).

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-14 23:17:57.875133; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Qatar