How do you access indian_admin_boundaries data?

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indian_admin_boundaries — admin, postal, forest & more

Name: indian_admin_boundaries — admin, postal, forest & more
Creator: ramSeraph

This repo is used for machine-readable Indian administrative boundary files for mapping and joins.

Open downloadGitHub repoVery largeGood starting dataset

geospatial

Host / institution

GitHub · ramSeraph

Geography

India, district, postal, forest, police

Time coverage

Historical and current admin products

Update frequency

Releases through 2025

What this is best for

Best-in-class release packaging of Indian administrative boundaries

Main limitations

Track asset-level licenses (many CC0 with attribution ask)

Quick answers

Short research-facing answers derived from this catalog record.

What is indian_admin_boundaries used for?: Best-in-class release packaging of Indian administrative boundaries
How do you access indian_admin_boundaries data?: indian_admin_boundaries is labeled “Open download” on this guide. Open the access portal or documentation links on the record for the current host process—do not assume open download if registration or a DUA is required.
What geography and time does indian_admin_boundaries cover?: Geography: India, district, postal, forest, police. Time coverage: Historical and current admin products.
What are the main limitations of indian_admin_boundaries?: Track asset-level licenses (many CC0 with attribution ask)

Guides for using this data

Official portals, user guides, codebooks, and tutorials for access and analysis.

2 links

Variables7

Live-fetched raw.githubusercontent.com (2026-07-09): Contains data from various sources about Indian administrative boundaries. Data. Representative fields for the page table — verify the full dictionary on the official site.

Sourced from live host documentation

Open official dictionary

Name / code	Description	Group
States / Districts / SubDistricts	Admin boundary hierarchy	Admin
Blocks / Panchayats / Villages	Rural local-body boundaries	Admin
Habitations / Urban	Habitation and urban extents	Settlement
Forests / Coastal	Forest and coastal regulation layers	Environment
Postal / Police	Postal and police jurisdiction layers	Services
Constituencies	Electoral constituency boundaries	Elections
Census 2011 / Historical districts	Census and historical admin layers	History

Formats

release assets · vector tiles

Technical tags

releasesvector tilesgithub

Example uses

Basemap and historical district work

Research and articles using this data

Verified examples that analyze, reuse, introduce, or visualize this dataset. Search matches without evidence are not published here.

3 verified sources

Scholarly works3

Journal articleAnalyzes data
Evaluation of long term forest fires in India with respect to state administrative boundary, forest category of LULC and future climate change scenario: A Geospatial Perspective
Firoz Ahmad, Meraj Uddin, Laxmi Goparaju · Forest Research Papers · 2018
Analyzes indian_admin_boundaries data in the context of: "Evaluation of long term forest fires in India with respect to state administrative boundary, forest category of LULC and future climate change scenario: A Geospatial Perspective".
Journal articleAnalyzes data
shapefiles: Read and Write ESRI Shapefiles
CRAN: Contributed Packages · 2003
Analyzes indian_admin_boundaries data in the context of: "shapefiles: Read and Write ESRI Shapefiles".
Journal articleAnalyzes data
Table 1: Description of land-use history, disturbance, stand, and biophysical predictor variables converted to GIS shapefiles and used to predict current tree species abundance and <scp> <scp>dbh</scp> </scp> values across the Harvard Forest ForestGEO plot
Analyzes indian_admin_boundaries data in the context of: "Table 1: Description of land-use history, disturbance, stand, and biophysical predictor variables converted to GIS shapefiles and used to predict current tree species abundance and <scp> <scp>dbh</scp> </scp> values across the Harvard Forest ForestGEO plot".

Scholarly checked:: 10 Sept 2026
Web checked:: Not checked yet

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Pairs well with

Many Indian data problems need survey + administrative combinations.