About

LocalBoundaries is a project by Open Knowledge Nepal that publishes the administrative boundary geodata of Nepal (provinces, districts, and local levels) as free, open, and reusable data, in whichever format your tools expect: GeoJSON, TopoJSON, Shapefile, KML, or GeoPackage.

Following the Constitution of Nepal (2015), the country was restructured into 7 provinces and local levels categorized as rural municipality, municipality, metropolitan city, and sub-metropolitan city. Prior to this project, up-to-date digital boundary files for these units were difficult for developers, researchers, and civic-tech projects to find in an open format. LocalBoundaries fills that gap.

Explore the data on the interactive map, or head straight to the download catalog for whole-country or per-province files.

What’s included

• Provinces (7)
• Districts (77), dissolved from local-level boundaries by district, since no separately-attributed district source exists
• Local levels: Rural Municipality (Gaupalika), Municipality (Nagarpalika), Metropolitan City (Mahanagarpalika), Sub-Metropolitan City (Upamahanagarpalika)
• National parks, wildlife reserves, hunting reserves, and other protected/special areas

Other Nepal GIS data sources

LocalBoundaries focuses on administrative boundaries. For other kinds of geospatial data, see:

• Survey Department / National Geoportal: official topographic and administrative data
• Department of Land Information and Archive: cadastral (parcel-level) data
• Humanitarian Data Exchange: humanitarian and crowdsourced datasets
• OpenStreetMap: crowdsourced, continuously updated map data

License

The datasets are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). You are free to use, share, and adapt this data for any purpose, including commercially, as long as you give appropriate credit.

Contributing

Found an error in the boundary data, or have an update to suggest? Open an issue or pull request on GitHub. The data pipeline that generates every downloadable file from source is in scripts/generate_datasets.py.