Details
The GADM dataset provides up-to-date administrative boundaries, vectorized on a country-by-country basis and up to five management levels. In addition, we aggregated the GADM dataset into continents and regions. The regional aggregation dissolves countries following the global geoscheme of the United Nations Statistical Division (UNSD).
Subdatasets
continents | Continent boundaries
| ogc_fid |
Unique feature identifier |
| region |
Continent name |
unsd | Continent boundaries
| ogc_fid |
Unique feature identifier |
| region |
Region name |
level0 | Country boundaries
| ogc_fid0 |
Unique feature identifier |
| gid_0 |
Country ISO3 code |
| name_0 |
Country name |
level1 | Level 1 administrative boundaries (e.g. Regions)
| ogc_fid0 |
Unique feature identifier |
| gid_0 |
Country ISO3 code |
| name_0 |
Country name |
| gif_1 |
Unique identifier of administrative area (level 1) |
| name_1 |
Name of administrative area (level 1) |
| engtype_1 |
Type of administrative area (English name) |
level2 | Level 2 administrative boundaries (e.g. Districts)
| ogc_fid0 |
Unique feature identifier |
| gid_0 |
Country ISO3 code |
| name_0 |
Country name |
| gif_1 |
Unique identifier of administrative area (level 1) |
| name_1 |
Name of administrative area (level 1) |
| gid_2 |
Unique identifier of administrative area (level 2) |
| name_2 |
Name of administrative area (level 2) |
| engtype_2 |
Type of administrative area (English name) |
level3 | Level 3 administrative boundaries (e.g. Counties)
| ogc_fid0 |
Unique feature identifier |
| gid_0 |
Country ISO3 code |
| name_0 |
Country name |
| gif_1 |
Unique identifier of administrative area (level 1) |
| name_1 |
Name of administrative area (level 1) |
| gid_2 |
Unique identifier of administrative area (level 2) |
| name_2 |
Name of administrative area (level 2) |
| gid_3 |
Unique identifier of administrative area (level 3) |
| name_3 |
Name of administrative area (level 3) |
| engtype_3 |
Type of administrative area (English name) |
level4 | Level 4 administrative boundaries (e.g. Municiplality)
| ogc_fid0 |
Unique feature identifier |
| gid_0 |
Country ISO3 code |
| name_0 |
Country name |
| gif_1 |
Unique identifier of administrative area (level 1) |
| name_1 |
Name of administrative area (level 1) |
| gid_2 |
Unique identifier of administrative area (level 2) |
| name_2 |
Name of administrative area (level 2) |
| gid_3 |
Unique identifier of administrative area (level 3) |
| name_3 |
Name of administrative area (level 3) |
| gid_4 |
Unique identifier of administrative area (level 4) |
| name_4 |
Name of administrative area (level 4) |
| engtype_4 |
Type of administrative area (English name) |
level5 | Level 5 administrative boundaries (e.g. Commune)
| ogc_fid0 |
Unique feature identifier |
| gid_0 |
Country ISO3 code |
| name_0 |
Country name |
| gif_1 |
Unique identifier of administrative area (level 1) |
| name_1 |
Name of administrative area (level 1) |
| gid_2 |
Unique identifier of administrative area (level 2) |
| name_2 |
Name of administrative area (level 2) |
| gid_3 |
Unique identifier of administrative area (level 3) |
| name_3 |
Name of administrative area (level 3) |
| gid_4 |
Unique identifier of administrative area (level 4) |
| name_4 |
Name of administrative area (level 4) |
| gid_5 |
Unique identifier of administrative area (level 5) |
| name_5 |
Name of administrative area (level 5) |
| engtype_5 |
Type of administrative area (English name) |
masDMT query
# data call without specifying subdataset and resolution
list_data("GADM")
# data call for specific subdataset
list_data("GADM/continents")
# data call to subdataset with a specific resolution
list_data("GADM/continents/10m")
References
(bibtex)
[1] (2012)