| Title: | Spatial Boundary Data for Malawi Administrative Levels |
| Version: | 1.0.0 |
| Description: | Provides official spatial boundary datasets for Malawi at multiple administrative levels: country (level 0), regions (level 1), districts (level 2), and traditional authorities (level 3). Also includes Lake Malawi boundary data. Boundary data are the Common Operational Datasets (COD-AB) sourced from the National Statistics Office of Malawi and distributed via the OCHA Humanitarian Data Exchange (HDX), version 02 https://data.humdata.org/dataset/cod-ab-mwi. Intended for use with the 'mwmap' package or any spatial analysis workflow requiring Malawi administrative boundaries. |
| License: | MIT + file LICENSE |
| Encoding: | UTF-8 |
| RoxygenNote: | 7.3.3 |
| Depends: | R (≥ 3.5) |
| Imports: | sf |
| Suggests: | knitr, rmarkdown, testthat (≥ 3.0.0) |
| LazyData: | true |
| LazyDataCompression: | xz |
| URL: | https://github.com/bitacanalytics/mwmapdata, https://github.com/bitacanalytics/mwmap |
| BugReports: | https://github.com/bitacanalytics/mwmapdata/issues |
| Config/testthat/edition: | 3 |
| NeedsCompilation: | no |
| Packaged: | 2026-05-02 20:09:36 UTC; bitac |
| Author: | Chifundo Bita [aut, cre] |
| Maintainer: | Chifundo Bita <bitac.analytics@gmail.com> |
| Repository: | CRAN |
| Date/Publication: | 2026-05-06 11:20:02 UTC |
Lake Malawi Boundary
Description
Spatial data for Lake Malawi, also known as Lake Nyasa.
Usage
major_lakes
Format
An sf object with 1 feature and Natural Earth lake attributes:
- name
Lake name
- name_alt
Alternative lake name
- geometry
MULTIPOLYGON geometry for the lake boundary
Source
Natural Earth lake polygons
Legacy Malawi States Dataset
Description
Deprecated. Legacy district-level dataset retained for backwards
compatibility. Please use mw_level_2 instead.
Usage
malawi_data
Format
An sf object equivalent to mw_level_2
Malawi Administrative Boundaries - Level 0 (Country)
Description
National boundary of Malawi at administrative level 0.
Usage
mw_level_0
Format
An sf object with 1 feature and 5 fields:
- ADM0_EN
Country name (Malawi)
- ADM0_PCODE
Country ISO code (MW)
- area_sqkm
Area in square kilometres
- center_lat
Centroid latitude
- center_lon
Centroid longitude
- geometry
MULTIPOLYGON geometry for the national boundary
Source
Malawi Spatial Data Platform (MASDAP) / OCHA HDX, version 2 (2023)
Malawi Administrative Boundaries - Level 1 (Regions)
Description
The three administrative regions of Malawi: Northern, Central, and Southern.
Usage
mw_level_1
Format
An sf object with 3 features and 7 fields:
- ADM1_EN
Region name (Northern, Central, Southern)
- ADM1_PCODE
Region code (MW1, MW2, MW3)
- ADM0_EN
Country name
- ADM0_PCODE
Country code
- area_sqkm
Area in square kilometres
- center_lat
Centroid latitude
- center_lon
Centroid longitude
- geometry
MULTIPOLYGON geometry for regional boundaries
Source
Malawi Spatial Data Platform (MASDAP) / OCHA HDX, version 2 (2023)
Malawi Administrative Boundaries - Level 2 (Districts)
Description
District-level administrative boundaries for all 32 districts of Malawi, including the four city districts (Blantyre City, Lilongwe City, Mzuzu City, Zomba City) added in the 2023 boundary update.
Usage
mw_level_2
Format
An sf object with 32 features and 12 fields:
- ADM2_EN
District name (e.g., Lilongwe, Blantyre, Mzimba)
- ADM2_PCODE
District code (e.g., MW201)
- ADM1_EN
Region name
- ADM1_PCODE
Region code
- ADM0_EN
Country name
- ADM0_PCODE
Country code
- area_sqkm
Area in square kilometres
- center_lat
Centroid latitude
- center_lon
Centroid longitude
- REGION
Region name (convenience alias for ADM1_EN)
- DISTRICT
District name (convenience alias for ADM2_EN)
- geometry
MULTIPOLYGON geometry for district boundaries
Source
Malawi Spatial Data Platform (MASDAP) / OCHA HDX, version 2 (2023)
Malawi Administrative Boundaries - Level 3 (Traditional Authorities)
Description
Traditional Authority (TA) level administrative boundaries representing third-level subdivisions within districts, governed by traditional leaders.
Usage
mw_level_3
Format
An sf object with 433 features and 16 fields:
- ADM3_EN
Traditional Authority name
- ADM3_PCODE
Traditional Authority code
- ADM3_REF
Reference name for the Traditional Authority
- ADM2_EN
District name
- ADM2_PCODE
District code
- ADM1_EN
Region name
- ADM1_PCODE
Region code
- ADM0_EN
Country name
- ADM0_PCODE
Country code
- area_sqkm
Area in square kilometres
- center_lat
Centroid latitude
- center_lon
Centroid longitude
- REGION
Region name (convenience alias for ADM1_EN)
- DISTRICT
District name (convenience alias for ADM2_EN)
- TA
Traditional Authority name (convenience alias for ADM3_EN)
- geometry
MULTIPOLYGON geometry for TA boundaries
Source
Malawi Spatial Data Platform (MASDAP) / OCHA HDX, version 2 (2023)
Check if mwmapdata spatial data is valid
Description
A utility to confirm that the spatial objects in mwmapdata are well-formed sf objects.
Usage
mwmapdata_check(x = mw_level_2)
Arguments
x |
An sf object to check. Defaults to |
Value
Logical. TRUE if x is a valid sf object.
Examples
mwmapdata_check(mw_level_0)
mwmapdata_check(mw_level_2)