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Hong Kong GIS data sources

Region
Eastern Asia
ISO 3166
HK · HKG
Sources
11
Themes
12
Last verified

Where to download GIS data for Hong Kong: 11 sources across 12 themes, led by Lands Department and Digital Policy Office. 4 offer vector downloads such as Shapefile, GeoPackage or GeoJSON, 2 cover elevation. 1 is under an open licence. Every link was last checked on 18 Oct 2026.

Country atlases

National and OpenStreetMap sources for Hong Kong

Boundaries & admin 3

Administrative boundary data for every country

  • CSDI Portal (opens in a new tab)

    API Cost: Free

    Development Bureau

    Common Spatial Data Infrastructure portal: hundreds of government spatial datasets as downloads and OGC/ESRI APIs.

    • Boundaries & admin
    • Transport
    • Imagery
    Licence
    See publisher terms
    Formats
    API, GeoJSON
    Link
    portal.csdi.gov.hk

    Verified

  • Lands Department open map data (opens in a new tab)

    Download Cost: Free

    Lands Department

    Free iB1000/iB5000 topographic data, building footprints, digital terrain models, orthophotos and map tile APIs.

    • Boundaries & admin
    • Transport
    • Buildings
    • Elevation / DEM
    • Imagery
    Licence
    DATA.GOV.HK terms of use
    Formats
    Shapefile, GML, GeoTIFF, API
    Link
    landsd.gov.hk

    Verified

  • GeoInfo Map (opens in a new tab)

    Web viewer Cost: Free

    Lands Department

    Official web map of Hong Kong with government facility and land information layers.

    • Boundaries & admin
    • Imagery
    Licence
    DATA.GOV.HK terms of use
    Link
    map.gov.hk

    Verified

Land cover 1

Land cover datasets for every country

  • Planning Department open data (opens in a new tab)

    Download Cost: Free

    Planning Department

    Statutory plan zoning, land utilisation map and planning data release schedule.

    • Land cover
    • Boundaries & admin
    Licence
    DATA.GOV.HK terms of use
    Formats
    Shapefile, GeoJSON, CSV
    Link
    pland.gov.hk

    Verified

Buildings 2

Building footprint data for every country

  • 3D Spatial Data viewer (opens in a new tab)

    Web viewer Cost: Free

    Lands Department

    Territory-wide 3D photo-realistic mesh and 3D building models; downloads are offered via the CSDI Portal.

    • Buildings
    • Elevation / DEM
    Licence
    DATA.GOV.HK terms of use
    Formats
    3D Tiles
    Link
    3d.map.gov.hk

    Verified

  • Buildings of Hong Kong (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 1

Gridded population data for every country

  • 2021 Population Census (opens in a new tab)

    Download Cost: Free

    Census and Statistics Department

    Census results by District Council district, constituency area and Tertiary Planning Unit.

    • Population
    • Census & statistics
    Licence
    DATA.GOV.HK terms of use
    Formats
    CSV, XLSX
    Link
    censtatd.gov.hk

    Verified

Census & statistics 1

Census and statistics data for every country

  • Census and Statistics Department (opens in a new tab)

    Portal Cost: Free

    Census and Statistics Department

    National statistical office (from the UN Statistics Division directory).

    • Census & statistics
    Licence
    See publisher terms
    Link
    censtatd.gov.hk

    Verified

Climate & weather 1

Climate and weather data for every country

Geology 1

Geology data for every country

Open data portal 1

Open geospatial data portals for every country

  • DATA.GOV.HK (opens in a new tab)

    Portal Cost: Free

    Digital Policy Office

    Government open data portal with an API; geospatial layers are increasingly published via the CSDI Portal.

    • Open data portal
    Licence
    See publisher terms
    Link
    data.gov.hk

    Verified

Global datasets that cover Hong Kong

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

Boundaries & admin
Elevation / DEM
Imagery
Land cover
Buildings
Population
Census & statistics
Transport
Climate & weather
Natural hazards
Geology
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