Administrative boundary map generator
Skip the shapefile scavenger hunt. Name a country and a level and AcadGIS fetches the official administrative boundaries, ready to style.
What you get
- Levels 0–4: country, state, district, sub-district
- Sourced from GADM, cached for reuse
- Subset to one parent region (e.g. districts of one state)
- Works offline once cached
Frequently asked questions
Where do the boundaries come from?
From the GADM database of global administrative areas, plus Natural Earth and OpenStreetMap for context layers.
Which countries are supported?
Effectively every country — boundaries are downloaded on demand by name.
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