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International GIS Data: South Asia

Finding data for use with GIS for areas outside the U.S.

Regional

AsiaPop
Population density raster files in GeoTIFF format.

By Country

Bangladesh

Digital Geologic and Geophysical Data of Bangladesh
On CD-ROM at Penn Libraries.

India

India Place Finder
Gives latitude and longitude of placenames in India, derived from the 2001 Census.
Bhuvan
Geoportal of the National Remote Sensing Centre, with mostly land use data and satellite imagery for download.
Assembly Constituencies Map
Courtesy of Dartmouth economist Sandip Sukhtankar.

Pakistan

Pakistan GIS
Blog with links to some shapefiles, including union council maps and bus routes.
Demobase Pakistan
Gridded population data.
Pakreport.org
Data on power generation, voter turnout, and flooding, in Google Docs with geocodes.
Humanitarian Response Pakistan
Shapefiles related to response to flooding in Pakistan.

Nepal

Mountain GeoPortal
Thematic layers covering Nepal. Free registration required.

Sri Lanka

Survey Department of Sri Lanka

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