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    • Gridded Population of the World, Version 3 (GPWv3): National Administrative Boundaries

    Metadata Updated: August 22, 2025

    The Gridded Population of the World, Version 3 (GPWv3): National Administrative Boundaries are derived from the land area grid to show the outlines of pixels (cells) that contain administrative Units in GPWv3 on a per-country/territory basis. The National Boundaries data are derived from the pixels as polygons and thus have rectilinear boundaries at large scale. Note that the polygons that outline the countries and territories are not official representations; rather, they represent the area covered by the statistical data as provided. The national/territorial boundaries are designed for cartographic use with the GPWv3 population raster data sets. GPWv3 is produced by the Columbia University Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) in collaboration with Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical (CIAT).

    Access & Use Information

    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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    References

    https://doi.org/10.7927/H4XK8CG2
    https://doi.org/10.7927/H4P26W1B
    https://doi.org/10.7927/H4Q23X5Q
    https://doi.org/10.7927/H4K935FC
    https://doi.org/10.7927/H49W0CDN
    https://doi.org/10.7927/H4639MPP
    https://doi.org/10.7927/H42B8VZZ
    https://doi.org/10.7927/H4ST7MRB
    https://doi.org/10.7927/H4TT4NWQ

    Dates

    Metadata Created Date November 12, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date August 22, 2025

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from NASA Data.json

    Other Data Resources

    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date November 12, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date August 22, 2025
    Publisher SEDAC
    Maintainer
    Identifier C1000000041-SEDAC
    Data First Published 2005-12-31
    Language en-US
    Data Last Modified 2025-07-17
    Category GPW, geospatial
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 026:00
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
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    Harvest Source Id 58f92550-7a01-4f00-b1b2-8dc953bd598f
    Harvest Source Title NASA Data.json
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Old Spatial -179.199552 -54.751503 179.848323 79.89196
    Program Code 026:001
    Related Documents https://doi.org/10.7927/H4XK8CG2, https://doi.org/10.7927/H4P26W1B, https://doi.org/10.7927/H4Q23X5Q, https://doi.org/10.7927/H4K935FC, https://doi.org/10.7927/H49W0CDN, https://doi.org/10.7927/H4639MPP, https://doi.org/10.7927/H42B8VZZ, https://doi.org/10.7927/H4ST7MRB, https://doi.org/10.7927/H4TT4NWQ
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash c77c8fa539524f355617b1422fc63fb40b8ea9dd3d7aac1ed89992fea027445c
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial
    Temporal 2000-07-01T00:00:00Z/2000-07-01T00:00:00Z

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