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Title: Kism and Markaz Boundaries, Egypt, 2006

Dates

• Issued: 2015
• Coverage: 2006

Publishers

• Egypt. Jihāz al-Markazī lil-Taʻbiʼah al-ʻĀmmah wa-al-Iḥṣāʼ

Summary

This polygon shapefile contains the kism (qism) and markaz boundaries of Egypt for 2006. Kisms (qisms) and markazes are 2nd level administrative disvisions (ADM2) of Egypt, with markazes being more rural than kisms. These data are part of a collection of boundary data for Egypt published by the Central Agency for Public Mobilization And Statistics. 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. Central Agency for Public Mobilization And Statistics. (2015) Kism and Markaz Boundaries, Egypt, 2006. CAPMAS. Available at: http://purl.stanford.edu/wq280wk4908. This layer is presented in the WGS84 coordinate system for web display purposes. Downloadable data are provided in native coordinate system or projection.

Subjects

• Boundaries
• Egypt
• Administrative and political divisions
• Datasets

Geospatial coordinates

• Bounding Box: BBOX (24.692906, 36.907099, 31.670021, 21.941342)
• Geometry: BBOX (24.692906, 36.907099, 31.670021, 21.941342)

Provider

Stanford

Rights

• Access rights: Restricted

Citation

Egypt. Jihāz al-Markazī lil-Taʻbiʼah al-ʻĀmmah wa-al-Iḥṣāʼ. Kism and Markaz Boundaries, Egypt, 2006. Egypt. Jihāz al-Markazī lil-Taʻbiʼah al-ʻĀmmah wa-al-Iḥṣāʼ. Polygon data. https://purl.stanford.edu/wq280wk4908

Format

Shapefile

Languages

• English