About Open Admin Data

What is this?

Open Admin Data is a comprehensive, bilingual dataset of administrative divisions for countries worldwide. We provide structured, machine-readable data with geographic coordinates, postal codes, and proper local-script names. Starting with ASEAN and expanding globally.

All data is free under CC BY 4.0 and available via static JSON API, GitHub repositories, and this website.

Coverage

139
Countries
2,221
Top-Level Divisions
316,794
Total Records

Data Quality

  • All names sourced from official government data (BPS, DOSM, GSO, etc.)
  • Coordinates verified against multiple sources
  • Bilingual: local script + English/romanized
  • Hierarchical parent-child relationships validated
  • Updated when official data changes

Sources

CountryPrimary SourceLicense
Afghanistan OCHA COD-AB (HDX) CC BY-IGO
Algeria OCHA COD-AB (HDX) + algeria-cities CC BY-IGO
Angola OCHA COD-AB (HDX) CC BY-IGO
Antigua and Barbuda Who's On First + geoBoundaries CC BY
Argentina OCHA COD-AB (HDX) + Who's On First + TECHO CC BY-IGO
Armenia OCHA COD-AB (HDX) CC BY-IGO
Azerbaijan Azerbaijan Open Data CC BY-IGO
Bahamas OCHA COD-AB (HDX) + Who's On First CC BY-IGO
Bahrain OCHA COD-AB (HDX) + Wikipedia CC BY-IGO
Bangladesh OCHA COD-AB (HDX) CC BY-IGO
Barbados OCHA COD-AB (HDX) + Who's On First CC BY-IGO
Belize OCHA COD-AB (HDX) + Who's On First CC BY-IGO
Benin OCHA COD-AB Benin CC BY-IGO
Bhutan OCHA COD-AB (HDX) CC BY-IGO
Bolivia OCHA COD-AB (HDX) CC BY-IGO
Botswana OCHA COD-AB (HDX) + geoBoundaries CC BY-IGO
Brazil OCHA COD-AB (HDX) + geoBoundaries CC BY-IGO
Brunei Bruneiverse/bruneimap + geoBoundaries + Qoyyuum/Tulus + OpenStreetMap CC BY 4.0 / ODbL
Burkina Faso OCHA COD-AB (HDX) CC BY-IGO
Burundi OCHA COD-AB (HDX) CC BY-IGO
Cambodia Various CC BY 4.0
Cameroon OCHA COD-AB Cameroon CC BY-IGO
Cape Verde OCHA COD-AB (HDX) CC BY-IGO
Central African Republic OCHA COD-AB (HDX) CC BY-IGO
Chad OCHA COD-AB (HDX) CC BY-IGO
Chile OCHA COD-AB (HDX) CC BY-IGO
Colombia OCHA COD-AB (HDX) + geoBoundaries CC BY-IGO
Comoros OCHA COD-AB (HDX) CC BY-IGO
Costa Rica OCHA COD-AB (HDX) CC BY-IGO
Cuba OCHA COD-AB (HDX) CC BY-IGO
Djibouti OCHA COD-AB (HDX) + geoBoundaries CC BY-IGO
Dominica OCHA COD-AB (HDX) + Who's On First CC BY-IGO
Dominican Republic OCHA COD-AB (HDX) CC BY-IGO
DR Congo OCHA COD-AB (HDX) CC BY-IGO
Ecuador OCHA COD-AB (HDX) + geoBoundaries CC BY-IGO
Egypt OCHA COD-AB (HDX) CC BY-IGO
El Salvador OCHA COD-AB (HDX) CC BY-IGO
Equatorial Guinea OCHA COD-AB (HDX) CC BY-IGO
Eritrea OCHA COD-AB (HDX) CC BY-IGO
Eswatini OCHA COD-AB (HDX) CC BY-IGO
Ethiopia OCHA COD-AB (HDX) CC BY-IGO
Fiji OCHA COD-AB + geoBoundaries CC BY-IGO
Gabon OCHA COD-AB (HDX) CC BY-IGO
Gambia OCHA COD-AB (HDX) CC BY-IGO
Georgia OCHA COD-AB (HDX) CC BY-IGO
Ghana OCHA COD-AB (HDX) + Ghana Open Data Portal CC BY-IGO
Grenada OCHA COD-AB (HDX) + Who's On First CC BY-IGO
Guatemala OCHA COD-AB (HDX) CC BY-IGO
Guinea OCHA COD-AB Guinea CC BY-IGO
Guinea-Bissau OCHA COD-AB (HDX) CC BY-IGO
Guyana OCHA COD-AB (HDX) + geoBoundaries CC BY-IGO
Haiti OCHA COD-AB (HDX) CC BY-IGO
Honduras OCHA COD-AB (HDX) CC BY-IGO
Hong Kong GeoNames + snowiewdev/hkdistricts + hkdce/dcca-boundaries CC BY 4.0
Indonesia Wilayah Administratif Indonesia ODbL v1.0
Iran OCHA COD-AB (HDX) CC BY-IGO
Iraq OCHA COD-AB (HDX) CC BY-IGO
Ivory Coast OCHA COD-AB Côte d'Ivoire CC BY-IGO
Jamaica OCHA COD-AB (HDX) CC BY-IGO
Jordan Jordan DOS + geoBoundaries CC BY-IGO
Kenya OCHA COD-AB (HDX) CC BY-IGO
Kiribati OCHA COD-AB + geoBoundaries CC BY-IGO
Kuwait OCHA COD-AB + Kuwait Gov API CC BY-IGO
Kyrgyzstan OCHA COD-AB Kyrgyzstan CC BY-IGO
Laos geoBoundaries + GeoNames CC BY 4.0
Lebanon OCHA COD-AB (HDX) CC BY-IGO
Lesotho OCHA COD-AB (HDX) + geoBoundaries CC BY-IGO
Liberia OCHA COD-AB (HDX) CC BY-IGO
Libya OCHA COD-AB (HDX) CC BY-IGO
Madagascar OCHA COD-AB (HDX) + geoBoundaries CC BY-IGO
Malawi OCHA COD-AB (HDX) CC BY-IGO
Malaysia OpenDOSM + geoBoundaries CC BY 4.0
Maldives OCHA COD-AB Maldives (mdv_admin_boundaries.xlsx) CC BY-IGO
Mali OCHA COD-AB Mali CC BY-IGO
Marshall Islands OCHA COD-AB + geoBoundaries CC BY-IGO
Mauritania OCHA COD-AB (HDX) CC BY-IGO
Mauritius OCHA COD-AB (HDX) + geoBoundaries CC BY-IGO
Mexico OCHA COD-AB (HDX) CC BY-IGO
Micronesia OCHA COD-AB + geoBoundaries CC BY-IGO
Mongolia OCHA COD-AB (HDX) CC BY-IGO
Morocco OCHA COD-AB (HDX) CC BY-IGO
Mozambique OCHA COD-AB (HDX) CC BY-IGO
Myanmar Various CC BY 4.0
Namibia OCHA COD-AB (HDX) CC BY-IGO
Nauru geoBoundaries CC BY-IGO
Nepal OCHA COD-AB (HDX) CC BY-IGO
Nicaragua OCHA COD-AB (HDX) CC BY-IGO
Niger OCHA COD-AB (HDX) CC BY-IGO
Nigeria OCHA COD-AB (HDX) + INEC Nigeria CC BY-IGO
North Korea OCHA COD-AB (HDX) CC BY-IGO
Oman OCHA COD-AB (HDX) CC BY-IGO
Pakistan OCHA COD-AB (HDX) CC BY-IGO
Palau geoBoundaries CC BY-IGO
Palestine OCHA COD-AB (HDX) CC BY-IGO
Panama OCHA COD-AB (HDX) CC BY-IGO
Papua New Guinea OCHA COD-AB (HDX) CC BY-IGO
Paraguay OCHA COD-AB (HDX) + geoBoundaries CC BY-IGO
Peru OCHA COD-AB (HDX) CC BY-IGO
Philippines Various CC BY 4.0
Qatar OCHA COD-EM (HDX) CC BY-IGO
Republic of the Congo OCHA COD-AB (HDX) CC BY-IGO
Rwanda OCHA COD-AB (HDX) + geoBoundaries CC BY-IGO
Saint Kitts and Nevis OCHA COD-AB (HDX) + Who's On First CC BY-IGO
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines OCHA COD-AB (HDX) + Who's On First CC BY-IGO
Samoa geoBoundaries CC BY-IGO
Sao Tome and Principe OCHA COD-AB (HDX) + geoBoundaries CC BY-IGO
Saudi Arabia OCHA COD-AB (HDX) CC BY-IGO
Senegal OCHA COD-AB (HDX) CC BY-IGO
Seychelles OCHA COD-AB (HDX) CC BY-IGO
Sierra Leone OCHA COD-AB (HDX) CC BY-IGO
Singapore Various CC BY 4.0
Solomon Islands OCHA COD-AB + geoBoundaries CC BY-IGO
Somalia OCHA COD-AB (HDX) CC BY-IGO
South Africa OCHA COD-AB (HDX) CC BY-IGO
South Sudan OCHA COD-AB (HDX) CC BY-IGO
Sri Lanka OCHA COD-AB Sri Lanka CC BY-IGO
Sudan OCHA COD-AB (HDX) CC BY-IGO
Suriname OCHA COD-AB (HDX) + geoBoundaries CC BY-IGO
Syria OCHA COD-AB (HDX) CC BY-IGO
Tajikistan Agency on Statistics (Tajikistan) + geoBoundaries CC BY
Tanzania OCHA COD-AB (HDX) CC BY-IGO
Thailand Various CC BY 4.0
Timor-Leste OCHA COD-AB (HDX) CC BY-IGO
Togo OCHA COD-AB (HDX) CC BY-IGO
Tonga OCHA COD-AB + geoBoundaries CC BY-IGO
Trinidad and Tobago OCHA COD-AB (HDX) + Who's On First CC BY-IGO
Tunisia OCHA COD-AB (HDX) CC BY-IGO
Turkey OCHA COD-AB (HDX) + isubas/turkish_cities CC BY-IGO / MIT
Tuvalu geoBoundaries CC BY-IGO
Uganda OCHA COD-AB (HDX) CC BY-IGO
United Arab Emirates OCHA COD-EM (HDX) CC BY-IGO
Uruguay INE Uruguay (Census 2023) + IDE Uruguay + geoBoundaries Open Data
Uzbekistan OCHA COD-AB (HDX) + geoBoundaries CC BY-IGO
Vanuatu OCHA COD-AB (HDX) CC BY-IGO
Venezuela OCHA COD-AB (HDX) CC BY-IGO
Vietnam ThangLeQuoc/vietnamese-provinces-database + vietnamadminunits MIT
Yemen OCHA COD-AB (HDX) CC BY-IGO
Zambia OCHA COD-AB (HDX) CC BY-IGO
Zimbabwe OCHA COD-AB (HDX) CC BY-IGO

License

Data: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Code: MIT License

You are free to use, share, and adapt this data for any purpose, including commercial, as long as you give appropriate credit.

GitHub

All source data and country repositories are on GitHub:

github.com/open-admin-data