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GRID3 COD - Settlement Names v8.0

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

The GRID3 COD - Settlement Names v8.0 dataset consists of settlement points with name and attributes for all the twenty-six provinces in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (COD).

Province group 1: Haut-Katanga, Kasaï, Kasaï-Oriental, Kinshasa, and Lomami
Province group 2: Haut-Lomami and Tanganyika
Province group 3: Ituri and Kwilu
Province group 4: Maniema
Province group 5: Kasaï-Central
Province group 6: Tshopo and Mongala
Province group 7: Sankuru
Province group 8: Kongo-Central
Province group 9: Lualaba, Mai-Ndombe, Sud-Ubangi, Tshuapa
Province group 10: Equateur, Nord-Ubangi, Sud-Kivu
Province group 11: Bas-Uele, Haut-Uele, Kwango, and Nord-Kivu

This operational dataset has not been fully validated by government officials or ministries.

This current version supersedes the GRID3 COD - Settlement Names v7.0 (https://doi.org/10.7916/fyk2-sj30). The following changes were made:

Added data for the provinces of Bas-Uele, Haut-Uele, Kwango, and Nord-Kivu.
The data for Tanganyika was updated.

Keywords: Settlements

Geographic Areas

Subjects

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More About This Work

Academic Units
Center for Integrated Earth System Information
Series
GRID3
Published Here
January 13, 2026

Related Items

Previous version:
GRID3 COD - Settlement Names v7.0

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. 2025. GRID3 COD - Settlement Names v8.0. New York: GRID3. https://doi.org/10.7916/qpnw-1c89. Accessed .

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