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Division

Divisions are recognized official or non-official organizations of people as seen from a given political perspective.

Examples include countries, provinces, cities, towns, neighborhoods, etc.

Fields

NameTypeDescription
idIdA feature ID. This may be an ID associated with the Global Entity Reference System (GERS) if—and-only-if the feature represents an entity that is part of GERS.
bboxbbox (optional)An optional bounding box for the feature
geometrygeometryApproximate location of a position commonly associated with the real-world entity modeled by the division feature.

Allowed geometry types: Point
theme"divisions"
type"division"
versionFeatureVersion
subtypePlaceTypeadmin_level is required when subtype is one of: county, macrocounty, region, macroregion, dependency, country
parent_division_id is required when subtypecountry
parent_division_id is forbidden when subtype = country
countryCountryCodeAlpha2ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code of the country or country-like entity, that this division represents or belongs to.

If the entity this division represents has a country code, the country property contains it. If it does not, the country property contains the country code of the first division encountered by traversing the parent_division_id chain to the root.

For example: - The country value for the United States is 'US' - The country value for New York City is 'US' - The country value for Puerto Rico, a dependency of the US, is 'PR'. - The country value for San Juan, Puerto Rico is 'PR'.

If an entity has an internationally-recognized ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code, it should always be used. In cases where the schema requires the code but no internationally-recognized code is available, a synthetic code may be used provided it does not conflict with any internationally-recognized codes.
parent_division_idId (optional)Division ID of this division's parent division.

Not allowed for top-level divisions (countries) and required for all other divisions.

The default parent division is the parent division as seen from the default political perspective, if there is one, and is otherwise chosen somewhat arbitrarily. The hierarchies property can be used to inspect the exhaustive list of parent divisions.

Minimum length: 1

parent_division_id is required when subtypecountry
parent_division_id is forbidden when subtype = country
admin_levelAdminLevel (optional)Integer representing the division's position in its country's administrative hierarchy, where lower numbers correspond to higher level administrative units.

admin_level is required when subtype is one of: county, macrocounty, region, macroregion, dependency, country
classDivisionClass (optional)
local_typeCommonNames (map, optional)Local name for the subtype property, optionally localized.

For example, the Canadian province of Quebec has the subtype 'region', but in the local administrative hierarchy it is referred to as a 'province'. Similarly, the Canadian Yukon territory also has subtype 'region', but is locally called a 'territory'.

This property is localized using a standard Overture names structure. So for example, in Switzerland the top-level administrative subdivision corresponding to subtype 'region' is the canton, which is may be translated in each of Switzerland's official languages as, 'canton' in French, 'kanton' in German, 'cantone' in Italian, and 'chantun' in Romansh.
regionRegionCode (optional)ISO 3166-2 principal subdivision code of the subdivision-like entity this division represents or belongs to.

If the entity this division represents has a principal subdivision code, the region property contains it. If it does not, the region property contains the principal subdivision code of the first division encountered by traversing the parent_division_id chain to the root.

For example: - The region value for the United States is omitted. - The region value for the U.S. state of New York is 'US-NY'. - The region value for New York City is 'US-NY', which it inherits from the state of New York. - The region value for Puerto Rico is 'US-PR'.
populationint32 (optional)Population of the division

≥ 0
capital_division_idslist<Id> (optional)Division IDs of this division's capital divisions. If present, this property will refer to the division IDs of the capital cities, county seats, etc. of a division.

Minimum length: 1
All items must be unique. (UniqueItemsConstraint)
wikidataWikidataId (optional)A wikidata ID, as found on https://www.wikidata.org/

Constraints

  • admin_level is required when subtype is one of: county, macrocounty, region, macroregion, dependency, country
  • parent_division_id is required when subtypecountry
  • parent_division_id is forbidden when subtype = country

Examples

ColumnValue
cartography.prominence29
cartography.min_zoomnull
cartography.max_zoomnull
cartography.sort_keynull
names.primarySia'atoutai
names.commonnull
id350e85f6-68ba-4114-9906-c2844815988b
bbox.xmin-175.25515747070312
bbox.xmax-175.255126953125
bbox.ymin-21.1353702545166
bbox.ymax-21.13536834716797
geometryPOINT (-175.2551522 -21.1353686)
themedivisions
typedivision
version1
sources[0].property
sources[0].datasetOpenStreetMap
sources[0].record_idn3173231082@4
sources[0].update_time2014-12-18T09:17:03Z
sources[0].confidencenull
sources[0].betweennull
subtypelocality
countryTO
hierarchies[0][0].division_idfef8748b-0c91-46ad-9f2d-976d8d2de3e9
hierarchies[0][0].subtypecountry
hierarchies[0][0].nameTonga
hierarchies[0][1].division_id4d67561a-2292-41bd-8996-7853d276a42c
hierarchies[0][1].subtyperegion
hierarchies[0][1].nameTongatapu
hierarchies[0][2].division_id8730f0cc-d436-4f11-a7d3-49085813ef44
hierarchies[0][2].subtypecounty
hierarchies[0][2].nameVahe Kolomotu'a
hierarchies[0][3].division_id350e85f6-68ba-4114-9906-c2844815988b
hierarchies[0][3].subtypelocality
hierarchies[0][3].nameSia'atoutai
parent_division_id8730f0cc-d436-4f11-a7d3-49085813ef44
classvillage
local_type{"en": "village"}
regionTO-04
perspectivesnull
normsnull
population534
capital_division_idsnull
capital_of_divisionsnull
wikidatanull
names.rules[0].variantalternate
names.rules[0].languagenull
names.rules[0].perspectivesnull
names.rules[0].valueNafualu
names.rules[0].betweennull
names.rules[0].sidenull