AGSL GeoDiscovery

Tanzania conflated historical administrative boundaries, 1950

Description:

Shapefile representing historical boundaries of provinces and districts in Tanganyika (Tanzania) for 1950. 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:/88435/6h440w96d

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, province, provinces, and district

Theme:

Boundaries

Temporal Coverage:

1950, 2016, and 2016

Date Issued:

2016

Spatial Coverage:

Tanzania, Tanganyika, Zanzibar, and Zanzibar Protectorate

Access Rights:

Public

Format:

Shapefile