Sudan Administrative Boundaries for States and Localities

30 October 2025 marks the latest review of this dataset containing Sudan's administrative boundaries at two levels. It includes 19 states and 189 localities, contributed by OCHA ROSEA and published by OCHA FIS and HDX. The boundaries were created on 13 August 2013 and were valid for humanitarian use as of 31 August 2020.

Use Cases

• Create thematic maps for humanitarian response based on state and locality boundaries.
• Perform spatial joins for demographic or resource allocation analysis based on administrative units.
• Validate or update gazetteer entries for Sudan based on the official locality names.
• Integrate administrative boundaries into disaster risk models based on the defined geographic hierarchy.

Strengths

• Contains 19 states and 189 localities, providing a detailed subnational hierarchy.
• Quality assured and published by authoritative humanitarian organizations OCHA FIS and HDX.
• Part of the larger, standardized 'Global Subnational Administrative Boundaries' (COD-AB) dataset.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The underlying boundaries were created in 2013, and political changes since then may not be reflected.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale processing.

Provenance

Source

OCHA Regional Office for Southern and Eastern Africa (ROSEA).

Collection Method

Created and edited by the source organization, then configured and published by OCHA FIS and HDX.

Time Range

Boundaries created 13 August 2013; dataset valid for use as of 31 August 2020.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-10 09:05:33.082989; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Sudan.