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Title: Customary Lands: Southern Province, Zambia, 1985-2014

Contributors:

Dates

  • Issued: 2014
  • Coverage: 1985
  • Coverage: 2014

Publishers

  • Provincial Centre for Geographic Information Services (Zambia)

Summary

This polygon shapefile shows the boundaries of customary lands in the Southern Province of Zambia for 1985-2014. Customary land is land which is owned by indigenous communities and administered in accordance with their customs, as opposed to statutory tenure usually introduced during the colonial periods. Common ownership is one form of customary land ownership. These data were digitized from 1:50,000 scale topographic maps and Earthsat imagery. This layer is part of a collection of GIS data relating to Zambia including boundary files, rivers, roads, schools, utilities, protected areas and vegetation. This layer 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. Zambia Provincial Centre for Geographic Information Services. (2014) Customary Lands: Southern Province, Zambia, 1985-2014. PCGIS. Available at: http://purl.stanford.edu/dx468kz6122 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
  • Southern Province (Zambia)
  • Land tenure
  • Datasets

Geospatial coordinates

  • Bounding Box: BBOX (24.969617, 28.909356, -15.262595, -18.075114)
  • Geometry: BBOX (24.969617, 28.909356, -15.262595, -18.075114)

Provider

Stanford

Rights

  • Access rights: Restricted

Citation

Provincial Centre for Geographic Information Services (Zambia). Customary Lands: Southern Province, Zambia, 1985-2014. Provincial Centre for Geographic Information Services (Zambia). Polygon data. https://purl.stanford.edu/dx468kz6122

Format

Shapefile

Languages

  • English