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Tunisia GIS data sources

Region
Northern Africa
ISO 3166
TN · TUN
Sources
18
Themes
12
Last verified

Where to download GIS data for Tunisia: 18 sources across 12 themes, led by OCHA / Humanitarian Data Exchange and UNFPA / Humanitarian Data Exchange. 7 offer vector downloads such as Shapefile, GeoPackage or GeoJSON. 11 are under an open licence. Every link was last checked on 18 Oct 2026.

Country atlases

National and OpenStreetMap sources for Tunisia

Boundaries & admin 4

Administrative boundary data for every country

  • Subnational administrative boundaries (COD-AB) (opens in a new tab)

    Download Cost: Free

    OCHA / Humanitarian Data Exchange · National

    Humanitarian common operational dataset of administrative boundaries for levels 0–4 with P-codes; source: Institut National de la Statistique Tunisie.

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

    Verified

  • Territorial units open data (opens in a new tab)

    Download Cost: Free

    Ministère de l'Intérieur · National

    Official lists of governorates, delegations, municipalities and sectors.

    • Boundaries & admin
    Licence
    CC BY 4.0
    Formats
    CSV, XLSX
    Link
    opendata.interieur.gov.tn

    Verified

  • Second Administrative Level Boundaries (SALB) (opens in a new tab)

    Download Cost: Free

    United Nations · National

    UN-validated first and second level boundaries with change history.

    • Boundaries & admin
    Licence
    See publisher terms
    Formats
    Shapefile
    Link
    salb.un.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

Imagery 1

Satellite and aerial imagery for every country

  • Digital Earth Africa Map (opens in a new tab)

    Web viewer Cost: Free

    Digital Earth Africa · Africa

    Viewer for analysis-ready Landsat and Sentinel imagery and derived products such as water observations, cropland extent and coastlines; data are also open on AWS.

    • Imagery
    • Land cover
    • Hydrology
    Licence
    CC BY 4.0
    Formats
    GeoTIFF, WMS
    Link
    maps.digitalearth.africa

    Verified

Buildings 2

Building footprint data for every country

  • Copernicus Global Human Settlement Layer (opens in a new tab)

    Download Cost: Free

    European Commission JRC / Humanitarian Data Exchange · National

    Country clip of GHSL built-up surface, population and degree-of-urbanisation grids derived from satellite imagery.

    • Buildings
    • Population
    Licence
    CC BY 4.0
    Formats
    GeoTIFF
    Link
    data.humdata.org

    Verified

  • Google Open Buildings (opens in a new tab)

    Download Cost: Free

    Google Research · Africa, Asia and Latin America

    Building footprint polygons detected from high-resolution imagery, with confidence scores and a 2.5D temporal dataset; download by S2 tile.

    • Buildings
    Licence
    CC BY 4.0 or ODbL 1.0
    Formats
    CSV, GeoJSON
    Link
    sites.research.google

    Verified

Population 4

Gridded population data for every country

  • Subnational population statistics (COD-PS) (opens in a new tab)

    Download Cost: Free

    UNFPA / Humanitarian Data Exchange · National

    Sex- and age-disaggregated population statistics for levels 0–2 (reference year 2020), keyed to the COD-AB P-codes for joining to boundaries.

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

    Verified

  • WorldPop population counts 2015–2030 (opens in a new tab)

    Download Cost: Free

    WorldPop, University of Southampton · National

    Annual gridded estimates of people per ~100 m cell from 2015 to 2030, modelled with random forest dasymetric mapping.

    • Population
    Licence
    CC BY 4.0
    Formats
    GeoTIFF
    Link
    data.humdata.org

    Verified

  • High Resolution Population Density Maps (opens in a new tab)

    Download Cost: Free

    Meta Data for Good / Humanitarian Data Exchange · National

    Roughly 30 m population density rasters derived from building detection in satellite imagery, with layers for women, men, children, youth and the elderly.

    • Population
    Licence
    CC BY 4.0
    Formats
    GeoTIFF, CSV
    Link
    data.humdata.org

    Verified

  • RGPH 2024 census (opens in a new tab)

    Download Cost: Free

    Institut National de la Statistique · National

    Results of the 2024 general population and housing census by governorate and delegation.

    • Population
    • Census & statistics
    Licence
    See publisher terms
    Formats
    PDF, XLSX
    Link
    ins.tn

    Verified

Census & statistics 1

Census and statistics data for every country

Transport 1

Road, rail and transport data for every country

Climate & weather 1

Climate and weather data for every country

  • Rainfall indicators at subnational level (opens in a new tab)

    Download Cost: Free

    WFP / Humanitarian Data Exchange · National

    Dekadal CHIRPS rainfall totals and anomalies aggregated by administrative unit from 1981, updated regularly.

    • Climate & weather
    Licence
    CC BY 4.0
    Formats
    CSV
    Link
    data.humdata.org

    Verified

Agriculture & soils 1

Agriculture and soil data for every country

  • iSDAsoil (opens in a new tab)

    Download Cost: Free

    iSDA · Africa

    Predicted soil properties such as pH, carbon, nitrogen and texture at 30 m resolution for two depths, available as cloud-optimised GeoTIFFs and a map viewer.

    • Agriculture & soils
    • Environment
    Licence
    CC BY 4.0
    Formats
    GeoTIFF
    Link
    isda-africa.com

    Verified

Environment 1

Environmental and protected area data for every country

  • Protected and conserved areas (WDPCA) (opens in a new tab)

    Download Cost: Free

    UNEP-WCMC and IUCN / Humanitarian Data Exchange · National

    Country extract of the World Database on Protected and Conserved Areas, including OECMs, with designation and IUCN category.

    • Environment
    Licence
    Free for non-commercial use; see UNEP-WCMC terms
    Formats
    GeoJSON, GeoPackage, CSV
    Link
    data.humdata.org

    Verified

Open data portal 2

Open geospatial data portals for every country

  • data.gov.tn (opens in a new tab)

    Download Cost: Free

    Government of Tunisia · National

    National open data portal with datasets from ministries and agencies.

    • Open data portal
    • Census & statistics
    Licence
    See publisher terms
    Formats
    CSV, XLSX
    Link
    data.gov.tn

    Verified

  • Tunisia open data hub (opens in a new tab)

    Download Cost: Free

    Esri Tunisia · National

    ArcGIS Hub with administrative boundaries and thematic layers for Tunisia.

    • Open data portal
    • Boundaries & admin
    Licence
    Varies by dataset
    Formats
    Shapefile, GeoJSON, CSV
    Link
    tunisie-tunisia.opendata.arcgis.com

    Verified

Global datasets that cover Tunisia

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

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