Syrian Arab Republic - Subnational Administrative Boundaries

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Most Recent Changes:

11 July 2024 added 257 New community. added 3 Columns: Admin 1 Capital: Indicates whether the community is an Admin 1 capital (Yes/No). Admin 3 Capital: Indicates whether the community is an Admin 3 capital (Yes/No). Hosting Individuals: Contains a list of communities that host populations displaced from Quneitra in 1967. Although these populations reside in Dara, Damascus, and Rural Damascus governorates, many of them receive services from Quneitra Governorate. Therefore, it’s important for humanitarian partners to know which Governorate they need to coordinate with to reach these individuals.

24 January 2023 added 100 Communities.

Glide: EQ-2023-000015-TUR

12 January 2021 ITOS GeoServices, shapefiles, and geodatabase added. EMF files added. ITOS gazetteer added.

18-August-2020 added 327 Communities.

21-March-2019 added 14 Communities.

19-Dec-2018 Use the Neighborhood as point loaded in the same layer/ Excel file called as a humanitarian Location added 11 Communities.

01-July-2018 added 1528 Communities and some localities moved to their accurate locations

31-Jan-2018- added 91 populated places and areas, some localities moved to their accurate locations, essential change in the admin boundary in Tartous Governorate at Admin 2 and Admin 3

1-June-2017- added 24 populated places and areas

22-Feb-2017- added three populated places and fixed some typos in admin4 and neighborhoods

04-Oct-2016 - Added two populated places

20-Sept-2016 - Built-up polygonal layer was created so that for each populated place there is a corresponding built-up poplygon; Added populated places based on feedback from humanitarian partners ; Neighborhood layer now includes 11 main cities with new p-codes ; column names follow global standard; reference names are unique both in English and Arabic

12-Jan-2014 - Shape file version posted. UTF-8 has been used to enable the correct display of Arabic characters.

19-May-2013 - New features added to Admin4 ; English Names edited to be consistent in all Admin levels; locations of few communities adjusted

07-Jan-2013 - Column with Capitals of Administrative Units (1 - 3) added to Populated Places (Admin 4). No changes.

19-Dec-2012 - Minor change: erroneous Admin 1 p-code for the populated place Arab Elmalik Jerkes (p-code = C3571) corrected (from SY010 to SY10).

12-Dec-2012 - Added neighborhoods , currently Damascus only. Added "C" as leading character of pcodes at level 4 (populated places) to ensure uniqueness. The digits remain the same from earlier versions.

24-Sep-2012 - Consolidated spelling between all 4 levels for all admin levels. Pcodes added.

24-Aug-2012 - Shapefile versions added. Exported from the geodatabase version of 30-June-2011.

30-Jun-2012 - Topology cleaned, underscores removed from admin names.

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