Nigeria - Subnational Administrative Boundaries

Name: Nigeria - Subnational Administrative Boundaries
Creator: OCHA Field Information Services Section (FISS)
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/legalcode

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Nigeria

About this dataset

Nigeria administrative level 0-3 boundaries (COD-AB) dataset version 01. This dataset is structured into 3 levels: - Admin 1: 37 State - Admin 2: 774 Local Governement Area - Admin 3: 714 Ward, partial coverage Dates associated with this dataset: - 30 October 2025: dataset reviewed for accuracy and completeness - 17 April 2019: valid for use by the humanitarian community - 01 October 1996: last edit to the dataset before publishing - 01 October 1996: boundaries created by the source Contributed by OCHA Nigeria. Quality assured, configured, and published by OCHA Field Information Services (FIS) and HDX. Part of the dataset: Global Subnational Administrative Boundaries

Documentation

Dataset: Admin Level 3 (Wards) boundaries were developed by Ehealth Africa through the collation of settlements referred to as “Microplan” within each Local Government Area (LGA). The list is then sent to Ward focal points and traditional leaders from respective LGAs to verify which Wards the settlements belong. This confirmation forms the basis for demarcating the ward boundaries. The ehealth boundaries are operational and constantly being updated. The Ehealth boundaries are also cross-checked with the list of wards available from the Independent National Electoral Commission to harmonise the two available sources of ward level information. The Nigeria boundaries from OSGOF and wards from Ehealth were reviewed by ITOS to clean and align the wards with the boundaries for Admin 0, 1 and 2 and international boundaries. The complete evaluation report for the ITOS process can be found [here](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1eEzVP_X2lGRFSrm69_iCTo5SOO67FeuxRppHbCg2oYE/edit#gid=0) ADM2 feature "Bakassi" [NG009005] is not represented in the COD-PS, but is thought to be uninhabited. Any actual population will be incorporated in the "Akpabuyo" ]NG009003] COD-PS record. Admin level 3 are developed for operational purposes only. Two wards in the Administrative registry file (Sagir and Wurge) in Ngala, Borno State are not demarcated in the shapefile due to access constraint. The COD replaces the following datasets: <br /> https://data.humdata.org/dataset/nigeria-admin-level-0-1-and-2-administrative-boundaries <br /> https://data.humdata.org/dataset/nigeria-borno-operational-boundaries-admin-1-3-state-lga-ward<br />

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