Datasets
Africapolis Urban Agglomerations (OECD/SWAC) vs LGA Boundaries (GRID3)
A verified, side-by-side comparison. Both records are status-checked by Findra, so you are comparing what each actually offers today, not a stale listing.
Category
Datasets
Datasets
Type
Geographic
Geographic
Country
🌍 Pan-African
🇳🇬 Nigeria
Docs status
Docs live
Docs live
Licensing
Pricing
Free / open
Free
Verified
Unverified
Verified
Last verified
5 Jul 2026
5 Jul 2026
Tags
boundaries, population, cities, geospatial, urbanization
geographic, boundaries, gis
Summary
Standardised geospatial database of urban agglomerations across all 54 African countries, built from censuses, electoral registers and satellite imagery. Each urban area is a polygon with population and built-up-area attributes, available in 2015 and 2020 versions. Data is downloadable as geospatial vector files from africapolis.org under CC BY 4.0.
Authoritative, OSGOF-backed LGA boundary polygons for all 36 states plus FCT (Dec 2020) in GeoJSON/SHP, no auth required.