Africapolis Urban Agglomerations (OECD/SWAC) vs States/LGAs JSON

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Africapolis Urban Agglomerations (OECD/SWAC)States/LGAs JSON

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boundaries, population, cities, geospatial, urbanization

geographic, npm, states-lgas

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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.

Zero-dependency JavaScript package (naija-state-local-government) providing Nigerian states, LGAs and senatorial districts; some versions add wards and polling units.

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