AGSL GeoDiscovery

Sierra Leone conflated historical administrative boundaries, 1948

Description:

Shapefile representing historical boundaries of provinces and districts in Sierra Leone for 1948. 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/t435gh50t

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, and district

Theme:

Boundaries

Temporal Coverage:

1948, 2016, and 2016

Date Issued:

2016

Spatial Coverage:

Sierra Leone

Access Rights:

Public

Format:

Shapefile