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GRID3 COD - Health Areas v9.0

Center for Integrated Earth System Information; Ministère de la Santé Publique, Hygiène et Prévention, Democratic Republic of the Congo; GRID3

The GRID3 COD - Health Areas v9.0 dataset consists of health area boundaries with name, health zone, and other attributes for all the twenty-six provinces in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (COD).

The current version supersedes the GRID3 COD - Health Areas v8.0 < https://doi.org/10.7916/kcq9-7s03 >. The following changes were made:

-The data for Haut-Lomami, Haut-Katanga, Ituri, Kwango, Lomami, Maniema and Tanganyika provinces were updated. Health area names were updated.

This dataset should be considered operational; it has not been fully validated by government authorities.

Keywords: Health Boundaries, Health Areas

Geographic Areas

Subjects

Files

  • thumbnail for GRID3 COD - Health Areas v9.0 Data Release Notes.pdf GRID3 COD - Health Areas v9.0 Data Release Notes.pdf application/pdf 242 KB
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  • thumbnail for GRID3_COD_Ituri_health_areas_v9_0.gpkg GRID3_COD_Ituri_health_areas_v9_0.gpkg application/x-geopackage 15.1 MB
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  • thumbnail for GRID3_COD_Sankuru_health_areas_v9_0.gpkg GRID3_COD_Sankuru_health_areas_v9_0.gpkg application/x-geopackage 40.4 MB
  • thumbnail for GRID3_COD_Maniema_health_areas_v9_0.gpkg GRID3_COD_Maniema_health_areas_v9_0.gpkg application/x-geopackage 8.23 MB

More About This Work

Academic Units
Center for Integrated Earth System Information
Series
GRID3
Published Here
August 27, 2026

Related Items

Previous version:
GRID3 COD - Health Areas v8.0

Notes

Dataset citation:
Center for Integrated Earth System Information (CIESIN), Columbia University, Ministère de la Santé Publique, Hygiène et Prévention, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and GRID3. 2026. GRID3 COD - Health Areas v9.0. New York: Columbia University. https://doi.org/10.7916/hv5g-p227. Accessed [DAY MONTH YEAR].

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