GADM

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Global Administrative Areas

GADM - version 0.9

GADM is a database of the location of the world's administrative areas. Administrative areas in this database are countries and lower level subdivisions such as provinces, departments, districts etc. GADM has been developed as part of the BioGeoMancer project. It was partly funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore foundation. The work was done at the Univeristy of California, Berkeley, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, and the International Rice Research Institute by Robert Hijmans, Nell Garcia, Julian Kapoor, Arnel Rala, Aileen Maunahan, and John Wieczorek.

The authors of this data have kindly given permission for it to be reproduced here. In its original form (available from the GADM site) the data is in a single global file. Here we have broken the data down into countries for ease of access.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. Note that this only covers the contribution of the BioGeoMancer project, not that of others who provided original data. Data for some countries is more restricted, where this is the case this is noted on the country web page, however also note that documentation is as yet incomplete.