Burkina Faso (BFA) Administrative Boundary

Common Operational Database (COD-AB)

GENERAL INFORMATION

Access and additional information:

Burkina Faso administrative level 0-3

boundaries

Source: Institut Géographique du Burkina

Data vintage: 2020

Most recent update: 26 March 2020

Endorsement: In progress

ITOS live services: Current and previous versions

available

Complementary COD-PS (population

statistics):
Burkina Faso administrative level 0-3
population statistics

VERSION HISTORY

20 March 2020 Boundary updates

17 August 2018 Initial upload

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CHARACTERISTICS

Administrative Administrative Administrative Administrative

level 0 level 1 level 2 level 3
Administrative country administrative province department
type: region

Geographic entire country entire country entire country entire country

extent:

Feature name French (FR) French (FR) French (FR) French (FR)
language:

Sample P- BF BF13 BF1300 BF130001

code:

Evaluation: fully usable fully usable fully usable fully usable

Feature types: polygons polygons polygons polygons,

lines
Feature count: 1 13 45 351

Formats: shapefile, shapefile, shapefile, shapefile,

EMF, KMZ, EMF, KMZ, EMF, KMZ, EMF, KMZ,
geodatabase geodatabase geodatabase geodatabase

COD-PS link: yes yes yes yes

METHODOLOGY

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Acquired from Institut Géographique du Burkina and P-coded by OCHA.

Vetting and live service provision by Information Technology Outreach Services

(ITOS) with funding from USAID.

CAVEATS

The KMZ files for administrative levels 0, 1, and 2 were created from generalized
(tolerance 0.01 degree) versions of the shapefiles. The shapefile resources are the
originals.

The significant characters of administrative level 2 feature Kadiogo [BF1300], which

includes Ouagadougou, are ‘00’.

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