Japan - Subnational Administrative Boundaries

Data and Resources [4]
Additional information
Time Period of the Dataset [?]
December 17, 2019-March 20, 2025 ... More
Modified [?]
19 December 2019
Dataset Added on HDX [?]
17 December 2019 Less
Expected Update Frequency
Every year
Location
Japan
Source
Prefecture governments
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Contributor
OCHA Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (ROAP)
Methodology

Adapted from prefecture sources and P-coded by OCHA. Feature name translations by OCHA. Hundreds of polygons in the source files covering parts of the surrounding water were removed by OCHA. The administrative level 2 (city, town, or village) shapefile was created by dissolving a working set of overlapping administrative level 3 shapefiles to make level 2 and then consolidated with the ArcGIS ‘integrate’ command (100 m tolerance) that makes new compromise boundaries where input features disagree in order to establish topological integrity.

Caveats / Comments

Because of the methodology many of the administrative level 2 boundaries will be as much as 100 m from the positions in the source shapefile.
License
Creative Commons Attribution for Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY-IGO)
Tags
administrative boundaries-divisions
gazetteer
File Format
Visibility
Public
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