Gridded Global Administrative Areas (GADM) for Africa

Gridded Global Administrative Areas (GADM) at uniform grid resolution of 0.05° by 0.05° used in Gascoigne et al. (2024).GADM is a database of the location of the world's administrative areas (boundaries). Administrative areas in this database include countries, counties, departments, etc. (Admin0-Admin6). The lowest level differs by country. For each area some attributes are provided, including the name and in some cases variant names.Source: Global Administrative Areas. 2012. GADM database of Global Administrative Areas, version 2.0. (https://biogeo.ucdavis.edu/data/gadm3.6/gadm36_shp.zip)