Province and District level boundaries for Africa.

  Includes levels 1, 2. (provinces, districts).
  Source: FAO Geonet, 2000 version

Title   Sub-national boundaries of Africa (2000).
Date    2000-07-01, creation
Edition First edition
Presentation form       mapDigital
Language        English
Character set   utf8
Abstract        Sub-national boundaries of Africa made by FAO-GIS in 1993 and updated for some countries in colla
boration with the Global Information and Early Warning System on Food and Agriculture (FAO Group) in 1999. Furthe
r amendments made by FAO-GIS from 1999 up to 2001
Supplemental Information        Map created from various national and regional datasets. Latest update: the coast
line for South Africa has been corrected according to VMap0; Walvis Bay has been included into Namibia.
Status  onGoing
Topic category  boundaries
Free Keywords   Sub-national boundaries
Place Keywords  Africa
Spatial representation type     vector
Equivalent scale
Denominator     1000000
Geographic box
West bound longitude    East bound longitude    South bound latitude    North bound latitude
-17.3   51.1    -34.6   38.2
Extent
Begin date      1993-07-01
End date        2001-07-01
Point of contact
Role    custodian

Distribution info
Web links       FAO/GIEWS - Map of Africa (GeoWeb Web System)
Data for download       Sub-national boundaries of Africa (2000) shapefile
Interactive Map         National boundaries of Africa (2000)
Interactive Map         Sub-national boundaries of Africa_first level
Interactive Map         Sub-national boundaries of Africa_second level
Data quality info
Hierarchy level dataset
Description     Last Updated
Date time       2001-07-31
Metadata
File identifier 1113
Language        English
Character set   utf8
Date stamp      2004-07-22 11:34:03
Metadata standard name  ISO 19115
Metadata standard version       FDIS
Maintenance and update frequency        asNeeded
Metadata author
Organisation name       FAO - UN SDRN
Role    pointOfContact

Delivery point  Viale delle Terme di Caracalla
City    Rome
Postal code     00100
Country Italy
Electronic mail address gis-manager@fao.org



  NOTE: Eritrea districts and provinces updated by P. Ceccato
  2006