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Political-administrative division of order 2.
Layer of polygons representing subnational administrative units of adm2 level (department, province, state). Provides a reference for the location in context of the second level subnational administrative units within the Amazon countries.
The units are identified by the name of the country to which they belong (NAME_0), the type of first level administrative unit (TYPE_1, for example, "State" or "Department"), the type of second level administrative unit (TYPE_2, such as "Municipality" or "District") and its specific name (NAME_2). Each unit also includes a compound name (COMPNAME) that refers to the country, department or state, and its name. For example, "Acrelândia, Acre, BRA" dignifies the municipality, the state and the ISO acronym of the country. In addition, the total area of each unit in square kilometers (ASQKM), the projected population for 2025 derived from the Global Human Settlement Layer model (POPGHS25), and the population density in inhabitants per square kilometer (DENS) are provided.
The limits shown are only illustrative and referential. They are a compilation of AmazoniaForever360+, 2023-2024, with successive corrections. This layer was assembled from the political-administrative division derived from the national cartographic services of the Amazonian countries. With additional information derived from GADM V4.1 data:
https://gadm.org/download_world.html
The Database of Global Administrative Areas (GADM) provides detailed spatial data on the administrative areas of all countries and their subdivisions. The current version is 4.1, released on July 16, 2022, which delineates 400,276 administrative areas. The data are available for download in different formats, including GeoPackage and shapefiles.