Sri Lanka Administrative Boundaries for Levels 0-4, Version 03

Sri Lanka administrative boundaries are structured into four hierarchical levels, containing 9, 25, 339, and 14,043 units respectively. The dataset was contributed by OCHA Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, quality assured by OCHA FIS and HDX, and last reviewed for accuracy on 30 October 2025. It is part of the Global Subnational Administrative Boundaries collection.

Use Cases

• Map administrative units for humanitarian response planning based on the four-level hierarchy.
• Join socio-economic data to subnational regions based on the provided boundary geometries.
• Analyze regional governance structures based on the defined administrative divisions.
• Create gazetteer services based on the included administrative unit names.

Strengths

• Contains 14,043 units at the most granular administrative level (Admin 4).
• Explicitly reviewed for accuracy and completeness on 30 October 2025.
• Part of a standardized global collection (COD-AB), suggesting consistent methodology.
• Available in multiple geospatial formats (GeoJSON, SHP, Geodatabase) for interoperability.

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.

Provenance

Source

OCHA Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (ROAP), OCHA Field Information Services (FIS), and HDX.

Collection Method

Boundaries created by the source, likely derived from official administrative data.

Time Range

Dataset valid for use from 16 August 2022.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03 10 09:04:07.309578; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Sri Lanka.