Title

Somalia Regional Capitals

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Abstract

DATA AND INFORMATION MANAGEMENT UNIT (DIMU) ORGANIZATION: UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME (UNDP SOMALIA) MODIFIED BY: DATA AND INFORMATION MANAGEMENT UNIT UNDP SOMALIA MODIFICATION DATES: 22/03/2001 The settlements where digitized from Somalia topographic maps at a scale of 1: 100,000. The maps were produced by stereo photography using aerial photography 1974.Printed 1976 by Bureau of cartography, Ministry of Defence, Somalia Democratic government. Reprinted by Canadian Forces Mapping and Charting Establishment from reprographic material of native Somalia mapping by the British Director of Military Survey. Other settlements were collated from gazetteer data ( Defense Mapping Agency USA) and UNDOS, populations surveys 1997/98 of N.W Somalia- Middle and lower Shabelle. STATUS COMPLETE TABLES SOURCE: DATA AND INFORMATION MANAGEMENT UNIT UNDP SOMALIA SOURCE PUBLICATION DATE: 2000 ATTRIBUTE RELIABILITY: Good STATUS: COMPLETE FIELDS DESCRIPTION SETT_ID Internal Feature Number HUTS Number of huts in a settlement HOUSES Number of houses in a settlement NAME Name of the settlement PCODE Alphanumeric coding system for coding the settlements based on the region and district they belong to. CODE Code assigned to the settlements to classify them. Code definition 1 = Settlement 5 = Other town 10 = District town 100 = Regional Capital 1000 = Capital town REG_CODE Codes assigned to the regions. From 1 to 17 REGION Name of the region DISTRICT Name of the district SOURCE Source of the settlement either gazetteer, topomap or survey. PPRWARES Population pre-war estimated using number of nomadic huts. PPRWANS Population pre-war estimated using number of houses. TOP_POP Population from the topomaps. SUR_POP Field Survey populations. X COOD X coordinate of the settlement or the easting Y COOD Y coordinate of the settlement or the northing.

Publication Date

Dec. 5, 2019, 5:14 p.m.

Type

Vector Data

Keywords

somalia

Regions

Somalia

Owner

admin

Group

Settlements

More info

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Maintenance Frequency

Data Is Updated As Deemed Necessary

Language

English

Supplemental Information

Credits: UNDP SOMALIA

Spatial Representation Type

vector data is used to represent geographic data

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