Zimbabwe Populated Places from OpenStreetMap

Zimbabwe settlements and residential areas exported from OpenStreetMap. The data includes named cities, towns, villages, suburbs, and residential land, contributed by volunteers. It was last updated on 2026-05-15 by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team.

Use Cases

• Demographic context mapping based on settlement names and types.
• Settlement-level targeting for humanitarian or development projects based on residential land areas.
• Population distribution analysis based on the density and location of populated places.

Strengths

• Data is available in multiple geospatial formats, including GEOPACKAGE, KML, and GEOJSON.
• The dataset is derived from OpenStreetMap, a free, collaborative world map.

Limitations

• Completeness varies by region; remote areas may be incomplete.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.

Provenance

Source

OpenStreetMap

Collection Method

Volunteer-contributed mapping.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-15 09:54:40.789141; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Zimbabwe