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Title: District Boundaries: Afghanistan, 2006

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Dates

  • Issued: 2006
  • Coverage: 2006

Publishers

  • Afghanistan Information Management Service

Summary

This polygon dataset shows the district level administrative boundaries of Afghanistan in 2006. These data were mapped at 1:100,000 scale from the United States Defence Mapping Agency (USDMA) 1:100,000 topo maps.This layer is part of the Topographic Maps of Afghanistan and Kabul dataset which contains shapefiles relating to district and provincial boundaries, land use, transportation, buildings and structures, rivers, settlements and other specific city data. This dataset is intended for researchers, students, and policy makers for reference and mapping purposes, and may be used for basic applications such as viewing, querying, and map output production, or to provide a basemap to support graphical overlays and analysis with other spatial data. Afghanistan Information Mangement Service. (2006) District Boundaries: Afghanistan, 2006. Afghanistan Information Mangement Service. Available at: http://purl.stanford.edu/tz142vq4451

Subjects

  • Boundaries
  • Afghanistan
  • Administrative and political divisions
  • Datasets

Geospatial coordinates

  • Bounding Box: BBOX (60.472083, 74.889451, 38.490792, 29.377065)
  • Geometry: BBOX (60.472083, 74.889451, 38.490792, 29.377065)

Provider

Stanford

Rights

  • Access rights: Restricted

Citation

Afghan Head Office of Geodesy & Cartography. District Boundaries: Afghanistan, 2006. Afghanistan Information Management Service. Polygon data. https://purl.stanford.edu/tz142vq4451

Format

Shapefile

Languages

  • English