Iraq places data

Cultural and historic places: museums, galleries, theatres, places of worship, monuments, and historic sites tagged via `tourism`, `amenity`, `historic`, or `heritage`. Useful for heritage protection, cultural mapping, and tourism context. Coverage reflects where volunteer mappers have been active. Urban areas are usually well represented, remote areas may be sparse. Cross-check critical decisions with local field knowledge. - Source: OpenStreetMap, a free, collaborative world map - Tags: tourism, amenity, historic, heritage - Part of the country exports on HDX by HOT

Settlements and residential areas: named cities, towns, villages, suburbs, and residential land (`place=*` and `landuse=residential`). Useful for demographic context, settlement-level targeting, and population analysis. Coverage reflects where volunteer mappers have been active. Urban areas are usually well represented, remote areas may be sparse. Cross-check critical decisions with local field knowledge. - Source: OpenStreetMap, a free, collaborative world map - Tags: place, landuse - Part of the country exports on HDX by HOT

Points of interest: public-facing amenities, shops, tourist attractions, and landmarks tagged via `amenity`, `shop`, `tourism`, or `man_made`. Useful for general POI reference, urban analysis, and basemap detail. Coverage reflects where volunteer mappers have been active. Urban areas are usually well represented, remote areas may be sparse. Cross-check critical decisions with local field knowledge. - Source: OpenStreetMap, a free, collaborative world map - Tags: amenity, shop, tourism, man_made - Part of the country exports on HDX by HOT

Settlement locations representing cities, towns, villages, and neighborhoods P-coded in accordance with Iraq - Subnational Administrative Boundaries (COD-AB). The "Iraq populated places 2021 P-coded.xlsx" spreadsheet contains two tables . Table "IRQ populated places master" contains all 12,494 available records. Table '"RQ populated places filter" excludes 338 master records that have blank English (ADM3_EN) and blank Arabic (ADM4_AR) names, and is the basis for the shapefile. The "IRQ populated places V04" contains the 12,156 points of the "IRQ populated places filter" table. When names are verified for the 338 excluded records the spreadsheet and shapefile will be updated. The Iraq - Subnational Administrative Boundaries (COD-AB) administrative level 0-3 gazetteer is also included.