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Brazil - Subnational Administrative Boundaries

Short description

The "Brazil - Subnational Administrative Boundaries" dataset represents polygon shapes of Brazilian administrative level 0 (country), 1 (state), and 2 (municipality).

The dataset is made available on the Humanitarian Data Exchange (HDX) platform, which is a service provided by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). Supporting information on the dataset is given in the file CITATION-AND-USE-geoBoundaries.txt.

Link

https://data.humdata.org/dataset/cod-ab-bra?

Publisher

United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)

Dataset owner

The data is created by the Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE) and provided by the Humanitarian Data Exchange.

Data card author

Maximilian Zachow / Raed Hamed

Dataset overview

Methodology Based on Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE) data. P-coded by OCHA, based on Código da Unidade Geográfica. File format: Shapefile (SHP), GEOJSON Geomtry types: Polygons Visibility Public

Provenance

Time Period of the Dataset September 30, 2020-September 30, 2020 Last Modified 30 September 2020 Dataset Added on HDX 12 October 2017 Expected Update Frequency Every year

License

Creative Commons Attribution for Intergovernmental Organisations (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/legalcode)

Additional information

Crop statistics are at admin 2 level and the corresponding shapefile is bra_admbnda_adm2_ibge_2020.shp

Reference of source data

https://www.ibge.gov.br/en/geosciences/territorial-organization/territorial-meshes/18890-municipal-mesh.html?edicao=30154