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Africapolis Urban Agglomerations (OECD/SWAC)

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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.

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馃實 Pan-African
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5 Jul 2026

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boundaries
population
cities
geospatial
urbanization

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