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Cambodia GIS data sources

Region
South-Eastern Asia
ISO 3166
KH · KHM
Sources
10
Themes
9
Last verified

Where to download GIS data for Cambodia: 10 sources across 9 themes, led by UN OCHA and Open Development Cambodia. 6 offer vector downloads such as Shapefile, GeoPackage or GeoJSON. 5 are under an open licence. Every link was last checked on 18 Oct 2026.

Country atlases

National and OpenStreetMap sources for Cambodia

Boundaries & admin 2

Administrative boundary data for every country

  • Cambodia - Subnational Administrative Boundaries (opens in a new tab)

    Download Cost: Free

    UN OCHA (HDX)

    Common Operational Dataset of subnational administrative boundaries with P-codes; source: Department of Geography of the Ministry of Land Management, Urbanization and Construction in 2008, WFP.

    • Boundaries & admin
    Licence
    CC BY 3.0 IGO
    Formats
    File geodatabase, Shapefile, GeoJSON, XLSX
    Link
    data.humdata.org

    Verified

  • geoBoundaries administrative boundaries (opens in a new tab)

    API Cost: Free

    William & Mary geoLab

    JSON API listing every available admin level with direct download links.

    • Boundaries & admin
    Licence
    Varies (open; see metadata)
    Formats
    GeoJSON, Shapefile, TopoJSON
    Link
    geoboundaries.org

    Verified

Land cover 1

Land cover datasets for every country

Buildings 1

Building footprint data for every country

  • Buildings of Cambodia (opens in a new tab)

    Download Cost: Free

    Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HDX)

    OpenStreetMap building footprints exported by HOT and refreshed regularly.

    • Buildings
    Licence
    ODbL 1.0
    Formats
    GeoPackage, GeoParquet, Shapefile, GeoJSON, PMTiles
    Link
    data.humdata.org

    Verified

Population 2

Gridded population data for every country

  • Cambodia - Subnational Population Statistics (opens in a new tab)

    Download Cost: Free

    UN OCHA (HDX)

    Common Operational Dataset of population estimates by administrative unit, joinable to the COD-AB via P-codes; source: Cambodia National Institute of Statistics.

    • Population
    • Census & statistics
    Licence
    CC BY 3.0 IGO
    Formats
    XLSX, CSV
    Link
    data.humdata.org

    Verified

  • WorldPop population data – Cambodia (opens in a new tab)

    Download Cost: Free

    WorldPop, University of Southampton

    100 m and 1 km gridded population counts, age/sex structure and related layers.

    • Population
    Licence
    CC BY 4.0
    Formats
    GeoTIFF
    Link
    hub.worldpop.org

    Verified

Census & statistics 1

Census and statistics data for every country

Transport 1

Road, rail and transport data for every country

Hydrology 1

River, lake and hydrology data for every country

  • Mekong River Commission Data Portal (opens in a new tab)

    Portal Cost: Free with registration

    Mekong River Commission · Mekong River basin

    Hydro-meteorological time series, river network, basin boundaries and water-quality data for the Mekong basin; some datasets need a free account.

    • Hydrology
    • Environment
    Licence
    See publisher terms
    Formats
    CSV, Shapefile, API
    Link
    portal.mrcmekong.org

    Verified

Open data portal 1

Open geospatial data portals for every country

  • Open Development Cambodia (opens in a new tab)

    Portal Cost: Free

    Open Development Cambodia

    Independent open data hub with land concessions, protected areas, forest cover and infrastructure layers.

    • Open data portal
    • Environment
    • Land cover
    Licence
    Varies by dataset
    Formats
    Shapefile, GeoJSON, CSV
    Link
    opendevelopmentcambodia.net

    Verified

Global datasets that cover Cambodia

Worldwide and continental layers that include Cambodia, useful where national data is missing, restricted or inconsistent across borders.

Boundaries & admin
Elevation / DEM
Imagery
Land cover
Buildings
Population
Census & statistics
Transport
Hydrology
Environment
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