Tajikistan Populated Places from OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap data for Tajikistan provides settlements and residential areas. The dataset includes named cities, towns, villages, suburbs, and residential land, sourced from the collaborative OpenStreetMap project and exported by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team. It was last updated on 2026-05-15.

Use Cases

• Create demographic context maps based on named settlements.
• Perform settlement-level targeting for aid distribution using residential land areas.
• Analyze population distribution patterns based on the hierarchy of places (cities, towns, villages).

Strengths

• Covers multiple settlement types including cities, towns, villages, suburbs, and residential land.
• Available in multiple geospatial file formats including GEOPACKAGE, KML, SHP, and GEOJSON.
• Data is licensed under the open ODbL-1.0 license.

Limitations

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

Provenance

Source

OpenStreetMap

Collection Method

Volunteer-contributed mapping via the OpenStreetMap platform.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-15 09:25:22.824597; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Tajikistan