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Comprehensive Global Administrative Zones - ADM0 Countries

This dataset contains global administrative boundaries of over 200 countries and territories at the country level (ADM0). Boundary information is sourced from within-country authorities whenever possible, with other information sources including public archives, digitised map documents, and community contributors.

Frameworks

EUDR TNFD general spatial analysis

Use cases

  • Jurisdictional aggregation for regulatory reporting
  • Spatial join with other datasets for country/district-level analysis
  • EUDR operator due diligence — country and subnational boundary reference
  • Data pipeline normalisation for multi-country spatial workflows

Who uses this

Geospatial data engineers and sustainability reporting teams use the ADM0 boundary layer as the foundational reference for country-level spatial joins across all other Cecil datasets. EUDR compliance platforms use it to map operator-uploaded sourcing polygons against country boundaries for jurisdictional risk classification. Regulatory reporting teams use it as the authoritative geometry source for normalising multi-country datasets into consistent, comparable outputs.

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