Africa - Water Bodies (2015)
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This dataset shows water bodies in Africa including lakes, reservoir, and lagoon. Data is curated from The Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development (RCMRD) was established in Nairobi Ð Kenya in 1975 under the auspices of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) and the then Organization of African Unity (OAU), today African Union (AU). RCMRD is an inter-governmental organization and currently has 20 Contracting Member States in the Eastern and Southern Africa Regions; Botswana, Burundi, Comoros, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius, Namibia, Rwanda, Seychelles, Somali, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
- Purpose
- The World Bank and the International Finance Corporation, collectively the World Bank Group (WBG) strives to enhance public access to and use of data that can support development impact.
Description
| Type of resource | cartographic, software, multimedia |
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| Form | Shapefile |
| Extent | 0.942 |
| Place | Washington, D.C., US |
| Publisher | World Bank Group |
| Publication date | 2017 |
| Language | English |
| Digital origin | born digital |
| Map data | Scale not given. ; Custom projection W 16°25ʹ54ʺ--E 49°19ʹ16ʺ/N 37°12ʹ7ʺ--S 34°45ʹ10ʺ, Scale not given ; EPSG::4326 |
Creators/Contributors
| Creator | World Bank Group |
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Subjects
| Subject | Bodies of water |
|---|---|
| Subject | Africa |
| Subject | 2017 |
| Subject | Inland Waters |
| Genre | Geospatial data |
| Genre | Cartographic dataset |
Bibliographic information
| WGS84 Cartographics | This layer is presented in the WGS84 coordinate system for web display purposes. Downloadable data are provided in native coordinate system or projection. |
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| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/nd124my6773 |
Access conditions
- Use and reproduction
- This material may be shared or adapted provided appropriate credit is given to the originator, and the same license is used.
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4.0 International license (CC BY-SA).
Preferred citation
- Preferred citation
- World Bank Group. (2015). Africa - Water Bodies (2015) World Bank Group. Available at: http://purl.stanford.edu/nd124my6773
Collection
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