Vanuatu Administrative Boundaries for 6 Provinces and 66 Subdivisions

Vanuatu's administrative boundaries for levels 0 to 2, structured into 6 provinces and 66 subdivisions. The dataset was contributed by OCHA Office of the Pacific Islands, quality assured by OCHA FIS and HDX, and is part of the Global Subnational Administrative Boundaries collection. It was reviewed for accuracy in October 2024 and is valid for humanitarian use since August 2018.

Use Cases

• Map administrative units for disaster response planning based on the defined province and subdivision boundaries.
• Conduct regional demographic or economic analysis based on the structured administrative hierarchy.
• Integrate boundary data into Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for spatial analysis based on the provided geospatial formats.
• Validate or update gazetteer entries based on the official administrative divisions.

Strengths

• Explicitly structured into 6 Admin 1 and 66 Admin 2 units, providing a clear hierarchy.
• Dataset was reviewed for accuracy and completeness on 31 October 2024.
• Published under the CC-BY-3.0-IGO license, facilitating open use and sharing.
• Available in multiple standard geospatial formats (GEOJSON, SHP, XLSX, GEODATABASE).

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 processing.
• Data may reflect geographic or source bias inherent to the humanitarian data platform.

Provenance

Source

OCHA Field Information Services Section (FISS)

Collection Method

Boundaries created by the source, quality assured and published by OCHA FIS and HDX.

Time Range

Boundaries created 31 October 2017; dataset valid from 24 August 2018.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-10 09:06:41.023147; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Vanuatu