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Belgium administrative boundaries

3 regions, 11 provinces and 565 municipalities, each with its official code, in GeoJSON, TopoJSON, GeoPackage, Shapefile, layered SVG, CSV and SQL.

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Outline of Belgium

One of the examples in the package

A layered SVG coloured from a table with a few lines of plain JavaScript: every entity is a path whose id is its official code. The page shows a part of the country: the two levels share the same borders, so they fit without gaps. The package has every entity of every level.

Flanders: the municipalities of the province of Antwerp, coloured by area, among the other provinces.

What is in the package

Levels and identifiers

LevelEntitiesIdentifier
country1BE
regions3BE-R-<official code>
provinces11BE-P-<official code>
municipalities565BE-M-<official code>

Every entity has the same identifier in every file: it is the feature id in GeoJSON and TopoJSON, the id of the path in SVG and the id column of the tables.

Formats and scales

Format full 100m 1km 10km light
GeoJSON 31.2 MB 1.6 MB 342 KB 9 KB 771 KB
TopoJSON 5.2 MB 481 KB 209 KB 5 KB 504 KB
Shapefile 27.0 MB 1.3 MB 271 KB 8 KB 658 KB
SVG - 1.7 MB 339 KB 10 KB 861 KB
  • full: the boundaries as published by the source.
  • 100m: simplified within 100 m and coherent: municipalities, provinces and regions share exactly the same border vertices.
  • 1km: simplified within 1 km and coherent like 100m, every level: the whole country on a web map.
  • 10km: simplified within 10 km and coherent, country, regions and provinces only: small maps and maps of many countries.
  • At the borders with the neighbouring countries (France, Germany, Luxembourg and Netherlands) the 100m, 1km and 10km boundaries share the same vertices as in their packages, so the maps fit without gaps or overlaps.
  • light: country, regions and provinces only, each level simplified on its own to a small file.
  • GeoJSON: one FeatureCollection per level, WGS84. TopoJSON: all the levels in one topology, shared borders are shared arcs.
  • GeoPackage: data/geopackage/be.gpkg (30.8 MB), one file for QGIS and ArcGIS with every level at every scale as a layer (municipalities_100m) with its spatial index, and every table of the package.
  • Shapefile: one per level and scale, WGS84, UTF-8; the columns longer than ten characters are shortened (region, province, abbrev).
  • SVG: one file per level and one with every level as a layer, in a Lambert conformal conic projection; they open as layers in Illustrator, Figma and Inkscape.
  • SQL: a script for PostGIS, one for MySQL 8 and one for SQL Server (1.6 MB each). It creates one table with every entity of every level, its 100m boundary in WGS84 and its indexes.
  • JSON: data/json/tree.json (43 KB), the levels nested and sorted by name, without boundaries: what the select boxes of a form need.

Tables

CSV, UTF-8. Names in EN, IT, ES, FR, DE, NL, PT, besides the official one.

FileRowsContent
tables/country.csv 1 The country: names, population, bounding box, centre and label point.
code, name, population, min_lat, min_lng, max_lat, max_lng, center_lat, center_lng, label_lat, label_lng, id, name_en, name_it, name_es, name_fr, name_de, name_nl, name_pt
tables/regions.csv 3 The regions: official code, names, area, population, bounding box, centre and label point.
code, name, area_km2, population, min_lat, min_lng, max_lat, max_lng, center_lat, center_lng, label_lat, label_lng, id, name_en, name_it, name_es, name_fr, name_de, name_nl, name_pt
tables/provinces.csv 11 The provinces: official code, abbreviation, the code of the parent, names, area, population, bounding box, centre and label point.
code, name, abbreviation, region_code, area_km2, population, min_lat, min_lng, max_lat, max_lng, center_lat, center_lng, label_lat, label_lng, id, name_en, name_it, name_es, name_fr, name_de, name_nl, name_pt
tables/municipalities.csv 565 The municipalities: official code, the codes of the parents, names, area, population, elevation in metres (of the centre, or lowest and highest point, as the official source gives it), bounding box, centre and label point.
code, name, province_code, province_abbreviation, region_code, cadastral_code, chief_town, area_km2, population, elevation, elevation_min, elevation_max, elevation_mean, min_lat, min_lng, max_lat, max_lng, center_lat, center_lng, label_lat, label_lng, id, name_en, name_it, name_es, name_fr, name_de, name_nl, name_pt
tables/names.csv 582 Every name an entity is written with (official, each side of a bilingual name, translated), without accents and as a slug: to match a file that has names and no codes.
id, level, name, name_ascii, slug, kind
tables/neighbours.csv 3,232 The entities of the same level that share a border, both ways, with the length of the shared border in km.
level, id, neighbour_id, shared_border_km
tables/history.csv 0 The suppressed municipalities with the one that replaced them, for archives that still have the old codes; no rows where the official source gives no history.
code, name, province_code, replaced_by_code, replaced_by_name
tables/changes.csv 0 What changed from one edition of the package to the next, one row per entity added, removed, renamed, moved or with a new boundary: the same as CHANGELOG.md.
edition, date, level, id, name, change, before, after

Files

All the 148 files of the package, with their size.

ATTRIBUTION.md2 KB
CHANGELOG.md0 KB
LICENSE.md2 KB
README.md12 KB
data/geojson/100m/country.geojson70 KB
data/geojson/100m/municipalities.geojson1.2 MB
data/geojson/100m/provinces.geojson218 KB
data/geojson/100m/regions.geojson115 KB
data/geojson/10km/country.geojson1 KB
data/geojson/10km/provinces.geojson5 KB
data/geojson/10km/regions.geojson2 KB
data/geojson/1km/country.geojson11 KB
data/geojson/1km/municipalities.geojson281 KB
data/geojson/1km/provinces.geojson33 KB
data/geojson/1km/regions.geojson18 KB
data/geojson/full/municipalities.geojson24.4 MB
data/geojson/full/provinces.geojson4.6 MB
data/geojson/full/regions.geojson2.2 MB
data/geojson/light/country.geojson37 KB
data/geojson/light/provinces.geojson552 KB
data/geojson/light/regions.geojson182 KB
data/geopackage/be.gpkg30.8 MB
data/json/tree.json43 KB
data/shapefile/100m/country.cpg0 KB
data/shapefile/100m/country.dbf0 KB
data/shapefile/100m/country.prj0 KB
data/shapefile/100m/country.shp59 KB
data/shapefile/100m/country.shx0 KB
data/shapefile/100m/municipalities.cpg0 KB
data/shapefile/100m/municipalities.dbf52 KB
data/shapefile/100m/municipalities.prj0 KB
data/shapefile/100m/municipalities.shp973 KB
data/shapefile/100m/municipalities.shx5 KB
data/shapefile/100m/provinces.cpg0 KB
data/shapefile/100m/provinces.dbf1 KB
data/shapefile/100m/provinces.prj0 KB
data/shapefile/100m/provinces.shp184 KB
data/shapefile/100m/provinces.shx0 KB
data/shapefile/100m/regions.cpg0 KB
data/shapefile/100m/regions.dbf0 KB
data/shapefile/100m/regions.prj0 KB
data/shapefile/100m/regions.shp98 KB
data/shapefile/100m/regions.shx0 KB
data/shapefile/10km/country.cpg0 KB
data/shapefile/10km/country.dbf0 KB
data/shapefile/10km/country.prj0 KB
data/shapefile/10km/country.shp1 KB
data/shapefile/10km/country.shx0 KB
data/shapefile/10km/provinces.cpg0 KB
data/shapefile/10km/provinces.dbf1 KB
data/shapefile/10km/provinces.prj0 KB
data/shapefile/10km/provinces.shp3 KB
data/shapefile/10km/provinces.shx0 KB
data/shapefile/10km/regions.cpg0 KB
data/shapefile/10km/regions.dbf0 KB
data/shapefile/10km/regions.prj0 KB
data/shapefile/10km/regions.shp2 KB
data/shapefile/10km/regions.shx0 KB
data/shapefile/1km/country.cpg0 KB
data/shapefile/1km/country.dbf0 KB
data/shapefile/1km/country.prj0 KB
data/shapefile/1km/country.shp9 KB
data/shapefile/1km/country.shx0 KB
data/shapefile/1km/municipalities.cpg0 KB
data/shapefile/1km/municipalities.dbf52 KB
data/shapefile/1km/municipalities.prj0 KB
data/shapefile/1km/municipalities.shp161 KB
data/shapefile/1km/municipalities.shx5 KB
data/shapefile/1km/provinces.cpg0 KB
data/shapefile/1km/provinces.dbf1 KB
data/shapefile/1km/provinces.prj0 KB
data/shapefile/1km/provinces.shp26 KB
data/shapefile/1km/provinces.shx0 KB
data/shapefile/1km/regions.cpg0 KB
data/shapefile/1km/regions.dbf0 KB
data/shapefile/1km/regions.prj0 KB
data/shapefile/1km/regions.shp15 KB
data/shapefile/1km/regions.shx0 KB
data/shapefile/full/municipalities.cpg0 KB
data/shapefile/full/municipalities.dbf52 KB
data/shapefile/full/municipalities.prj0 KB
data/shapefile/full/municipalities.shp21.1 MB
data/shapefile/full/municipalities.shx5 KB
data/shapefile/full/provinces.cpg0 KB
data/shapefile/full/provinces.dbf1 KB
data/shapefile/full/provinces.prj0 KB
data/shapefile/full/provinces.shp3.9 MB
data/shapefile/full/provinces.shx0 KB
data/shapefile/full/regions.cpg0 KB
data/shapefile/full/regions.dbf0 KB
data/shapefile/full/regions.prj0 KB
data/shapefile/full/regions.shp1.9 MB
data/shapefile/full/regions.shx0 KB
data/shapefile/light/country.cpg0 KB
data/shapefile/light/country.dbf0 KB
data/shapefile/light/country.prj0 KB
data/shapefile/light/country.shp31 KB
data/shapefile/light/country.shx0 KB
data/shapefile/light/provinces.cpg0 KB
data/shapefile/light/provinces.dbf1 KB
data/shapefile/light/provinces.prj0 KB
data/shapefile/light/provinces.shp469 KB
data/shapefile/light/provinces.shx0 KB
data/shapefile/light/regions.cpg0 KB
data/shapefile/light/regions.dbf0 KB
data/shapefile/light/regions.prj0 KB
data/shapefile/light/regions.shp154 KB
data/shapefile/light/regions.shx0 KB
data/topojson/100m/be.topojson481 KB
data/topojson/10km/be.topojson5 KB
data/topojson/1km/be.topojson209 KB
data/topojson/full/be.topojson5.2 MB
data/topojson/light/be.topojson504 KB
examples/choropleth-svg.html129 KB
examples/drill-down-d3.html89 KB
examples/leaflet-geojson.html555 KB
examples/lib/LICENSES.md3 KB
examples/lib/d3.min.js273 KB
examples/lib/leaflet.css14 KB
examples/lib/leaflet.js144 KB
examples/lib/topojson-client.min.js7 KB
examples/point-lookup.html227 KB
flags/BE.svg0 KB
sql/mysql.sql1.6 MB
sql/postgis.sql1.6 MB
sql/sqlserver.sql1.6 MB
svg/100m/layers.svg912 KB
svg/100m/municipalities.svg682 KB
svg/100m/provinces.svg124 KB
svg/100m/regions.svg66 KB
svg/10km/layers.svg5 KB
svg/10km/provinces.svg3 KB
svg/10km/regions.svg2 KB
svg/1km/layers.svg172 KB
svg/1km/municipalities.svg137 KB
svg/1km/provinces.svg19 KB
svg/1km/regions.svg10 KB
svg/light/layers.svg441 KB
svg/light/provinces.svg316 KB
svg/light/regions.svg104 KB
tables/changes.csv0 KB
tables/country.csv0 KB
tables/history.csv0 KB
tables/municipalities.csv109 KB
tables/names.csv37 KB
tables/neighbours.csv136 KB
tables/provinces.csv2 KB
tables/regions.csv1 KB

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