AGSL GeoDiscovery

British Cameroons conflated historical administrative boundaries, 1949

Description:

Shapefile representing historical boundaries of provinces, divisions, and districts in British Cameroons for 1949. 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/hh63t0402

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, district, and districts

Theme:

Boundaries

Temporal Coverage:

1949, 2018, and 2018

Date Issued:

2018

Spatial Coverage:

Cameroons, British Cameroons, Cameroon, and Nigeria

Access Rights:

Public

Format:

Shapefile