Accessibility to regional cities dataset is modeled as raster-based travel time/cost analysis, computed for the largest cities surrounding the country. The following cities are included:
City - Population
Maiduguri, Nigeria - 1 182 498
Garoua, Cameroon - 546 060
Maroua, Cameroon - 415 251
Bangui, Central African Republic - 1 145 280
Al-Fashir, Sudan - 263 243
This 500m resolution raster dataset is part of FAO's Hand-in-Hand Initiative, Geographical Information Systems - Multicriteria Decision Analysis (GIS-MCDA) aimed at the identification of value chain infrastructure sites (or optimal location).
Data publication: 2021-10-18
Contact points:
Metadata Contact: FAO-Data
Resource Contact: Justeen De Ocampo
Data lineage:
Produced using OpenStreetMap data for roads, railways, rivers; UN Map country border; The HydroSHEDS 15' resolution GRID for the DEM, GHSL - Global Human Settlement Layer.
Resource constraints:
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 IGO (CC BY-NC- SA 3.0 IGO)
Online resources:
Zipped raster TIF file for accessibility to regional cities (Chad ~ 500m)
