Level 1
34 units
China Province Boundaries
$19.99one-time
- 34 province-level divisions
- Maritime boundary lines included
- GeoJSON, SHP, SVG, DXF, GML, KML, CSV
Downloadable vector data
China administrative boundaries, in the formats you use.
34 provinces, 368 prefectures and 2,890 counties. Each unit carries its GB/T 2260 code and its Chinese name next to the English one, and comes as GeoJSON, shapefile, SVG, DXF, GML, KML or CSV. Buy the whole country, or one province at a time.
The datasets
Three levels, one set of fields.
Buy the country or a single province. The fields are the same at every level, so a provincial file drops into a national build without renaming a column. Admin 1 is the province, Admin 2 the prefecture, Admin 3 the county, which is the numbering GADM and geoBoundaries use.
Level 2
368 units
China City & Prefecture Boundaries
$59.99one-time
- 368 prefectures & cities
- Province code on every feature
- GeoJSON, SHP, SVG, DXF, GML, KML, CSV
Level 3
2,890 units
China County & District Boundaries
$99.99one-time
- 2,890 counties & districts
- Parent province and city on every row
- GeoJSON, SHP, SVG, DXF, GML, KML, CSV
By province
All 34 provinces
Or one province at a time.
City level $19.99, county level $39.99, per province. Same fields, smaller file, and none of the national coverage you would never draw.
Guangdong, China21 cities · 124 counties
from $19.99
Zhejiang, China11 cities · 90 counties
from $19.99
Jiangsu, China13 cities · 95 counties
from $19.99
Shandong, China16 cities · 136 counties
from $19.99
Sichuan, China21 cities · 183 counties
from $19.99
Henan, China18 cities · 157 counties
from $19.99
Hebei, China11 cities · 167 counties
from $19.99
Shanghai, China16 districts
from $39.99
What you get
Formats & schema
What arrives in the zip.
GeoJSON for code, shapefile for desktop GIS, SVG and DXF for design, GML, KML, and CSV if you only want the table. Same polygons in every one of them.
Seven formats, one download
GeoJSON
.geojsonRFC 7946, the reference version of the data.
Code, web maps, PostGISWGS 84
Shapefile
.shpWith .shx, .dbf, .prj and .cpg. UTF-8 attributes intact.
ArcGIS, QGIS projectsWGS 84
SVG
.svgOne group per division, keyed by its code. Names sit in a layer you can hide.
PowerPoint, Illustrator, InkscapeDegrees
DXF
.dxfR12 ASCII, projected to metres, simplified to about 45 m.
AutoCAD, illustrationMetres, LCC
GML
.gmlOGC GML 3.2, latitude written before longitude.
GeoServer, XML pipelinesWGS 84
KML
.kmlStyled so it looks reasonable when you double-click it.
Google Earth, quick checksWGS 84
CSV
.csvUTF-8 with BOM, so Excel shows the Chinese names instead of squares.
Excel, pandas, joins—
| Formats | GeoJSON · SHP · SVG · DXF · GML · KML · CSV, one zip |
|---|---|
| Coordinate system | WGS 84 · EPSG:4326 · decimal degrees |
| Geometry | MultiPolygon — one feature per division |
| Codes | 6-digit GB/T 2260, e.g. 440300 |
| Names | name_en and name_zh on every feature |
| Hierarchy | province_code → city_code → code |
| Extras | parts, center_lon, center_lat, bbox |
| Licence | Commercial use, one organisation, no attribution required |
| Delivery | Instant download; links re-issued whenever you open them |
| Data current to |
The parts that eat a week.
01
The code is already there
Every feature carries its six-digit GB/T 2260 code, so it joins to National Bureau of Statistics tables without matching names by hand.
02
Both names, on every feature
name_en and name_zh sit side by side. One file labels a map in either language, and there is no lookup table to maintain at render time.
03
Seven formats, one geometry
GeoJSON, shapefile, SVG, DXF, GML, KML and CSV, all cut from the same polygons. The CAD file and the dataframe come from the same source.
04
Opens where you work
WGS 84 throughout, except the DXF, which is projected to metres so CAD behaves. Drag it into QGIS, ogr2ogr it into PostGIS, read it into pandas.
Open it before you buy.
Zhejiang's city layer, free and without a signup: eleven features, the full field set, all seven formats. It is the same data you would be buying.
Questions
What exactly do I get?
One zip: the dataset in seven formats, a README describing every field, and the licence. One payment, one download link, no subscription.
Which format should I use?
GeoJSON if you're writing code or using Mapbox or Leaflet. Shapefile for ArcGIS and QGIS projects, DXF for AutoCAD and Illustrator, GML for GeoServer, KML for Google Earth, CSV if you only want the table. They are all in the same zip, so there's nothing to get wrong.
Is the data up to date?
The division list follows current GB/T 2260 codes, including the county-level changes of recent years. Each file records the date it was generated.
Can I use it commercially?
Yes. One purchase covers one organisation, client work included. The one thing you can't do is resell the data as a dataset.