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South African District Municipal Boundary 2018

District Municipalities 2018 is a shapefile and attributes information of all the district municipalities in South Africa. In the hierarchy of local government structure, the District Municipalities are contained within Provinces, then District Municipalities contain Local Municipalities. District Municipalities 2018 was published in the Year 2018 after the municipal boundaries had minor technical adjustments.

The district (Category C) municipalities are municipalities that are comprised of local (Category B) municipalities. The Metropolitan (Category A) Municipalities are municipalities with the major cities as the core (e.g. City of Johannesburg) and they are outside the District Municipalities. When the boundaries of local municipalities change and affect the boundary of district municipalities, the new district municipal boundary is generated. In the District Municipalities 2018 shapefile there are 44 District Municipalities and 8 Metropolitan Municipalities. Note that Metropolitan Municipalities are included in the District Municipalities shapefile to ensure that the layer is continuous throughout the country. If the Metropolitan Municipalities were left out, there will be void spaces in the layer.

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Additional Info

Field Value
Feature metadata record on SAEOSS landing page? false
DOI
Metadata Standard
Metadata standard name
SANS 1878-1:2011
Metadata standard version
1.1
Metadata record responsible party
Individual name
Municipal Demarcation Board
Position name
Independent Authority
Role
resource provider
Electronic mail address
Website URL
Metadata record responsible party contact info
Phone
Facsimile
Metadata record responsible party contact address
delivery Point
City
Administrative area
Postal Code
Topic category and SAEOSS theme
Topic Category
Boundaries
Metadata and Metadata record language and character set
Dataset language
English
Dataset character set
UTF-8
Metadata language
English
Metadata character set
UTF-8
Lineage statement The topology of the features has been checked to eliminate duplications of vertices and ensure the integrity of the feature geometry. The projection of the feature class is Geographic (Lat/Lon) andif one has to calculate the area of features, it must be transformed to UTM Projection and metres be used as units of measurements.
Metadata record point of contact
Individual contact name
Municipal Demarcation Board
Role / Position of the contact individual
Independent Authority
Organisation role
point of contact
Electronic mail address
info@demarcation.org.za
Metadata record point of contact additional info
Contact point phone
Contact point facsimile
Metadata record online information
URL
https://dataportal-mdb-sa.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/23e1b3458c704f65bc764168ae8557b8_0/about
Name
MDB District Municipal Boundary 2018
Application profile
Description
download
Distribution format
Metadata record distribution format name
Electronic metadata record
Metadata record distribution format version
1.0
Spatial parameters
Spatial resolution equivalent scale
NA
Spatial representation type
Vector (vector data is used to represent geographic data)
Spatial Reference System Identifier
WGS:84
Additional information about Reference Systems (temporal, vertical)
Reference date
Reference date 1
Reference datetime
2019-10-02T00:00
Reference date type
Publication
Metadata stamp date 2025-09-25T00:00
Metadata record thumbnail