Guides: International GIS Data: Africa

Regional

AfricaMap
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Downloadable as zipped shapefile, GML 2.0, GML 3.1.1, CSV ,Excel, GeoJSON, GeoTIFF, JPEG, PDF, PNG, KML
AfriPop
Population density estimates across Africa in 100m resolution, as well as age and gender distributions.
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Esri GRID format
Africa Infrastructure Diagnostic Map Data
Africa Land Cover Characteristics Data Base
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Flat raster format.
UNOSAT Horn of Africa Data
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Geodatabase or KMZ.
HarvestChoice
Data on the food supply of sub-Saharan Africa.
Ebola GeoNode
African Marine Atlas

By Country

Central African Republic

Interactive Forest Atlas
Conservation, permits, logging, habitat, hydrography, infrastructure, and vegetation for the Central African Republic, in shapefile format.

Gabon

Interactive Forest Atlas
Forest management, mining, hydrography, infrastructure, and vegetation for Gabon, in shapefile format.

Kenya

Virtual Kenya

Namibia

Digital Atlas of Namibia
Physical and political geography in shapefile format.
Namib Sand Sea Data
Satellite imagery, dune maps, elevation, and vegetation index in shapefile, ERDAS IMG, or ASCII format, depending on file.
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From the University of Sheffield.

Sudan

Darfur Damaged and Destroyed Villages, 2003-2010
In shapefile format.

Uganda

Poverty and Ecosystem Data
Poverty, sanitation, wetlands, and base data for Uganda.

Subject Guide

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