District


ISO-19139 Metadata

Resource Identification Information:

Citation:
Title:  District

Presentation format:  mapDigital

Descriptive keywords:
Keywords:  Downloadable Data

Thesaurus name: ArcGIS Content Type
Descriptive keywords:
Keywords:  Rwanda, gis data, boundary

Descriptive keywords:
Keywords:  Rwanda, gis data, boundary

Descriptive keywords:
Keywords:  Rwanda, gis data, boundary

Abstract:  District boundary shapefile contain district boundaries for Rwanda since 2006. The shapefile was created in 2006 and updated by the 2012 Census mapping. The census mapping statred in 2011 and ended in 2012, where a team of 80 field staff collected census and administrtive boundaries up to the lowest administrative level which is "Umudugudu". Boundaries were adjusted in the GIS lab using te 2008-2009 Orthophoto taken by the Rwanda Natural ressource Authority. Rwanda has thirty District located inside four Province and Kigali City,its geographic distribution is different among these province,Kigali City has three Districts,Eastern Province has seven District,Northern Province has five districts,Southern province has eight districts and Western Province has seven Districts.Downloaded from https://rwandalanduse.rnra.rw/ on 18.1.2018

Purpose: This shapefile was created while dividing the country into Enumeration Area for the 2012 Population and housing census. Then sector boundaries together with other administrative boundaries form the spatial sampling frame used for statistics study in National institute of Statistics of Rwanda

Dataset language:  eng
Dataset character set:  utf8

Spatial representation type:  vector

Processing environment:  Version 6.2 (Build 9200) ; Esri ArcGIS 10.5.1.7333

Extent:
Geographic element - Bounding rectangle:
Extent contains the resource: true
West longitude: 28.861439
East longitude: 30.900257
North latitude: -1.046991
South latitude: -2.840402
Credits: RLMUA/RNRA 2012

Spatial Representation - Vector:

Level of topology for this dataset:  geometryOnly
Geometric objects:
Object type:  composite
Object count: 30

Reference System Information:

Reference system identifier:
Value: 0
Code space: EPSG
Version: 7.4.1

Distribution Information:

Format:
Format name: File Geodatabase Feature Class

Transfer options:
Transfer size: 2.353

Metadata Information:

Metadata language:  eng
Metadata character set:  utf8


Last update:  2018-01-18

Scope of the data described by the metadata:  dataset
Scope name: dataset

Name of the metadata standard used: ISO 19139 Geographic Information - Metadata - Implementation Specification
Version of the metadata standard: 2007