Datatypes

GADM area id

ID gadm_gid

DatatypeNot PIIidentifierDraft

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Identifier of an administrative area in the GADM database of global administrative areas: the ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code of the country, the number of the area at each level, separated by dots, and the GADM version suffix, as in VNM.25.13_1. GBIF occurrences give it in gadm.level1.gid to level3.gid; level 0 is the alpha-3 code alone.

Parent datatype
Unique identifier id
Categories
Geographic identifiers
Countries
Global (not tied to a country)
Languages
Common to most languages
Quality
85/100 · missing: mapping (Wikidata, Schema.org, ...), translation
Metacrafter rules
1 rule (0 by field name, 1 by value)
Supported by tools
metacrafter

Regular expression

^[A-Z]{3}(?:\.\d+)+_\d+$

Python re syntax.

Examples

ValueDescription
VNM.25_1Level 1: Ho Chi Minh City
VNM.25.13_1Level 2
VNM.25.13.2_1Level 3
VNM invalidLevel 0 is the country code

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