geo.be Metadata Catalog
Territorial Divisions
Territorial Divisions is the vectorproduct representing the geographical units of Belgium. The product consists of 16 feature types grouped into 4 topics: ‘AdminVector’, ‘Judicial cantons and arrondissements’, ‘Electoral cantons’ and ‘Postal cantons’.
The AdminVector dataset includes the statistical, geographical and administrative units of Belgium.
The dataset of the judicial cantons and arrondissements displays the geographical units used for the organisation of the courts.
The dataset of the electoral cantons consists of geographical units used for the organisation of elections.
The dataset of the postal cantons includes the boundaries of the Belgian postal cantons.
The product can be downloaded in its entirety via the links in 'Access' at the bottom of this page. Each of the themes is also available as separate datasets on their own webpage.
Simple
- Date (Creation)
- 2022-03-30
- Date (Revision)
- 2025-03-06
- Identifier
- BE.NGI-IGN / 1cd00540-b0ca-11ec-a863-186571a04de2
- Status
- Completed
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
- Keywords
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- HVD_cat_administrative units
- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- No limitations on public access
- Use limitation
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
- Denominator
- 10000
- Metadata language
- Français
- Metadata language
- Nederlands; Vlaams
- Character set
- 8859 Part 15
- Topic category
-
- Boundaries
- Description
- Belgium
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- Distribution format
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GeoPackage
(
1.3.0
)
-
Esri Shapefile
(
10.2
)
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GeoPackage
(
1.3.0
)
- OnLine resource
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Direct download of resource
(
WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download
)
Direct download of resource
- OnLine resource
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Direct download of resource
(
WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download
)
Direct download of resource
- OnLine resource
-
Direct download of resource
(
WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download
)
Direct download of resource
- OnLine resource
-
Direct download of resource
(
WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download
)
Direct download of resource
- OnLine resource
-
https://ac.ngi.be/remoteclient-open/ngi-standard-open/Specifications/Vectordata/TerritorialDivisions_spectech_EN.pdf
(
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
)
Technical specifications of the product
- OnLine resource
-
View service
(
OGC:WMS
)
View service
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Domain consistency
- Name of measure
- INSPIRE Conformity
Conformance result
- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Explanation
- The dataset’s compliance with the technical requirements as defined by the Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 has not been checked
- Statement
- AdminVector is updated annually with the authentic administrative data of the FPS Finance, except for the border markers and former municipalities. Based on this source and other relevant information, the postal cantons, electoral cantons and judicial districts were constructed according to their definition in their respective codes.
- File identifier
- 1cd00540-b0ca-11ec-a863-186571a04de2 XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2026-06-16T08:18:44
- Metadata standard name
- ISO 19115:2003/19139
- Metadata standard version
- 1.0
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Spatial extent
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