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Lebanon GIS data sources

Region
Western Asia
ISO 3166
LB · LBN
Sources
7
Themes
9
Last verified

Where to download GIS data for Lebanon: 7 sources across 9 themes, led by UN OCHA and National Council for Scientific Research Lebanon. 4 offer vector downloads such as Shapefile, GeoPackage or GeoJSON. 4 are under an open licence. Every link was last checked on 18 Oct 2026.

Country atlases

National and OpenStreetMap sources for Lebanon

Boundaries & admin 2

Administrative boundary data for every country

  • Lebanon - 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: Council for Development and Reconstruction (CDR).

    • 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

Buildings 1

Building footprint data for every country

  • Buildings of Lebanon (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

Census & statistics 1

Census and statistics data for every country

Transport 1

Road, rail and transport data for every country

Environment 1

Environmental and protected area data for every country

  • National Council for Scientific Research (CNRS) (opens in a new tab)

    Portal Cost: Mixed

    National Council for Scientific Research Lebanon

    Hosts the National Centre for Remote Sensing and National Centre for Marine Sciences, producers of Lebanon land cover and coastal data.

    • Environment
    • Land cover
    • Marine & coastal
    Licence
    See publisher terms
    Link
    cnrs.edu.lb

    Verified

Global datasets that cover Lebanon

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

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

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