electricsheepafrica/africa-mali-west-and-central-africa-administrative-boundaries-levels-0-d9f606c6

West and Central Africa - Administrative Boundaries (Levels 0–2) and Settlements | Africa (Mali official open data)

8,301 rows - 1 Africa country - 2016-2025 - Repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa

TL;DR

This dataset packages one official XLSX resource from Mali as ML-ready Parquet. The source file is the provenance boundary; all usable indicators or tabular columns from the resource stay together in this repo.

About the source

• Source: West and Central Africa - Administrative Boundaries (Levels 0–2) and Settlements
• Publisher: OCHA West and Central Africa (ROWCA)
• Resource: wca_admin-0-1-2.xlsx
• Format: XLSX
• License: CC BY 4.0
• Packaging mode: indicator_long

Geographic coverage

1 Africa country:

Country	Rows	First year	Last year	Name
MLI	8,301	2016	2025	Mali

Indicators or Resource Contents

• west-and-central-africa-administrative-boundaries-levels-02-and-settleme-85eb6031 - West and Central Africa - Administrative Boundaries (Levels 0–2) and Settlements - area sqkm
• west-and-central-africa-administrative-boundaries-levels-02-and-settleme-c1eed9a4 - West and Central Africa - Administrative Boundaries (Levels 0–2) and Settlements - center lat
• west-and-central-africa-administrative-boundaries-levels-02-and-settleme-ba076f9e - West and Central Africa - Administrative Boundaries (Levels 0–2) and Settlements - center lon
• west-and-central-africa-administrative-boundaries-levels-02-and-settleme-17c1e800 - West and Central Africa - Administrative Boundaries (Levels 0–2) and Settlements - shape length
• west-and-central-africa-administrative-boundaries-levels-02-and-settleme-9c8e8760 - West and Central Africa - Administrative Boundaries (Levels 0–2) and Settlements - shape area

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
indicator_id	string	Stable indicator identifier.	west-and-central-africa-administrative-boundaries-levels-02-and-settleme
indicator_name	string	Human-readable indicator name.	West and Central Africa - Administrative Boundaries (Levels 0–2) and Set
country_iso3	string	ISO3 country code.	MLI
source_sheet	string	Workbook sheet name, when the source is a spreadsheet.	Admin2
country_name	string	Country name.	Mali
year	Int64	Observation year.	2016
value	float64	Numeric observation value.	12530.711269
unit	string	Measurement unit, when available.	source_units_unspecified
dimension_adm2_name	string	Source dimension.	Beyla
dimension_adm2_name1	string	Source dimension.	Beyla
dimension_adm2_pcode	string	Source dimension.	GN008001
dimension_adm1_name	string	Source dimension.	Nzerekore
dimension_adm1_name1	string	Source dimension.	Nzerekore
dimension_adm1_pcode	string	Source dimension.	GN008
dimension_adm0_name	string	Source dimension.	Guinea
dimension_adm0_name1	string	Source dimension.	Guinée
dimension_adm0_pcode	string	Source dimension.	GN
dimension_valid_to	string	Source dimension.	<Null>
dimension_version	string	Source dimension.	v01
dimension_lang	string	Source dimension.	en
dimension_lang1	string	Source dimension.	fr
dimension_source	string	Source dimension.	OCHAfrom ctrylayers
dimension_adm2_pcode_old	string	Source dimension.	GN0801
dimension_adm2_name_old	string	Source dimension.	Beyla
source_period_start_year	Int64	First year inferred from source resource metadata.	``
source_period_end_year	Int64	Last year inferred from source resource metadata.	``
source_period_label	string	Human-readable period inferred from source resource metadata.	``
source_provider	category	Publishing organization.	OCHA West and Central Africa (ROWCA)
source_dataset	category	Source package title.	West and Central Africa - Administrative Boundaries (Levels 0–2) and Set
source_resource	category	Source resource title.	wca_admin-0-1-2.xlsx
source_package_id	category	CKAN package UUID.	b20cd345-93fb-43bd-9c6e-7bc7d87b63eb
source_resource_id	category	CKAN resource UUID.	8e794cb5-eff7-4fe8-896f-6b9bc6c1c00e
source_url	category	Original source resource URL.	https://data.humdata.org/dataset/b20cd345-93fb-43bd-9c6e-7bc7d87b63eb/re
license_id	category	Source license identifier.	cc-by
retrieved_at	category	UTC retrieval timestamp.	2026-08-12T23:12:09Z
dimension_adm1_pcode_old	string	Source dimension.	``
dimension_adm1_name_old	string	Source dimension.	``
dimension_adm0_pcode_old	string	Source dimension.	``
dimension_adm0_name_old	string	Source dimension.	``

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-mali-west-and-central-africa-administrative-boundaries-levels-0-d9f606c6")
df = ds["train"].to_pandas()
print(df.head())

Filter to one country

sample_country = df[df["country_iso3"] == "MLI"]

Work with indicators

if "indicator_id" in df.columns:
    print(df["indicator_id"].value_counts().head())
    sample = df.sort_values([c for c in ["indicator_id", "year"] if c in df.columns])

Citation

@misc{electric_sheep_africa_africa_mali_west_and_central_africa_administrative_boundaries_levels_0_d9f606c6_2025,
  title        = {West and Central Africa - Administrative Boundaries (Levels 0–2) and Settlements | Africa (Mali official open data)},
  author       = {OCHA West and Central Africa (ROWCA)},
  year         = {2025},
  url          = {https://data.humdata.org/dataset/west-and-central-africa-administrative-boundaries-levels},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Africa},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepafrica/africa-mali-west-and-central-africa-administrative-boundaries-levels-0-d9f606c6}}
}

License

Released under CC BY 4.0.

Original data (c) OCHA West and Central Africa (ROWCA). When using this dataset, please cite both the original source above and the Electric Sheep Africa repackaging.

About Electric Sheep

Electric Sheep Africa is part of the Electric Sheep mission: a unified, ML-ready data layer for Africa on Hugging Face. We pull data from authoritative open sources, normalize the schemas, package as Parquet, and publish with consistent dataset cards so researchers and developers can use load_dataset() to start working in seconds.

Browse the full collection: huggingface.co/electricsheepafrica

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Provenance: ingested 2026-08-13 via the Electric Sheep pipeline. Source URL: https://data.humdata.org/dataset/b20cd345-93fb-43bd-9c6e-7bc7d87b63eb/resource/8e794cb5-eff7-4fe8-896f-6b9bc6c1c00e/download/wca_admin-0-1-2.xlsx