Global Administrative Areas

• SALB (ADM-2, formally approved by countries, high quality, but only for selected countries)
• ADM-1 data, all countries, intended for use with Epi Info™/Epi Map

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• Global oceans, seas and other big water.
• Exclusive economic zones for the Pacific
• Global built up areas (digital chart of the world)

--- General sources of administrative boundary data ----

• Statoids
• the country entries in Wikipedia
• More info about names and changes of administrative boundaries: Geonames
• some theory and more