AGSL GeoDiscovery

Nigeria conflated historical administrative boundaries, 1939

Description:

Shapefile representing historical boundaries of regions and provinces in Nigeria for 1939. 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/zp38wh12z

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 regions

Theme:

Boundaries

Temporal Coverage:

1939, 2017, and 2017

Date Issued:

2017

Spatial Coverage:

Nigeria, Cameroon, Cameroons, and British Cameroons

Access Rights:

Public

Format:

Shapefile