Populated Places in Tonga from OpenStreetMap

Tonga settlements and residential areas exported from OpenStreetMap. The data includes named cities, towns, villages, suburbs, and residential land, tagged with `place=*` and `landuse=residential`. It was last updated on 2026-05-15 and is provided by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team.

Use Cases

• Demographic context mapping based on named settlements.
• Settlement-level targeting for humanitarian or development projects based on residential land use.
• Population distribution analysis based on the presence of cities, towns, and villages.

Strengths

• Data is sourced from OpenStreetMap, a free, collaborative world map.
• Includes multiple geographic file formats: GEOPACKAGE, SHP, GEOJSON, and JSON.
• Covers specific OSM tags for populated places (`place=*`) and residential land (`landuse=residential`).

Limitations

• Completeness varies by region; remote areas may be incompletely mapped.
• 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.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-15 10:42:44.520273.

Geography

Tonga