AGSL GeoDiscovery

British Togoland conflated historical administrative boundaries, 1955

Description:

Shapefile representing historical boundaries of administrative districts, electoral districts, and local councils in British Togoland (Eastern Ghana) for 1955. GADM country-level administrative shapefiles were conflated with, and where necessary supplemented by, the extracted boundaries of a scanned British Colonial Office map.

Identifier:

ark:/88435/0p096b41t

Creator:

Map and Geospatial Information Center, Lewis Library, Princeton University

Provider:

Princeton

Resource Class:

Datasets

Resource Type:

Polygon

Subject:

boundary, Boundaries, administrative boundaries, administrative divisions, colony, colonies, colonial boundaries, historical boundaries, public, open access, district, elections, electoral districts, electoral boundaries, councils, local councils, constituency, and constituencies

Theme:

Boundaries

Temporal Coverage:

1955, 2016, and 2016

Date Issued:

2016

Spatial Coverage:

Togoland, British Togoland, and Ghana

Access Rights:

Public

Format:

Shapefile