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Waterbodies (WRIS 2024)
8,51,093 waterbodies · Source: CWC · Licence: CC0-1.0
Surface waterbody polygons from CWC WRIS — covers ponds, tanks, reservoirs and natural waterbodies beyond named lakes.
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India national boundary (2024)
LGD
1 country (MultiPolygon)
India's national boundary as a single MultiPolygon. Derived by dissolving the 36 LGD state and UT polygons, so it's India-correct by construction (Aksai Chin via J&K/Ladakh, full Arunachal Pradesh claim). LGD snapshot 2024.
Per Local Government Directory · updated 5d ago
Licence: CC0-1.0 / CC-BY-4.0
Download: geojson 7.2 MB · kml 6.6 MB · shp 3.7 MB
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States (2024)
LGD
36 states & UTs
Pan-India state and Union Territory boundaries. The base layer for every drill-down. LGD snapshot 2024.
Per Local Government Directory also: SOI , Bhuvan , geoBoundaries · updated 1w ago
Licence: CC0-1.0 / CC-BY-4.0
Download: parquet 7.0 MB 63 · pmtiles 3.4 MB · geojson 25.8 MB 22 · kml 20.3 MB 15 · shp 11.2 MB
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LGD primary
36 rows · Authoritative state and Union Territory boundaries from India's Local Government Directory (LGD). 36 polygons with the full LGD code chain, enabling joins with district, subdistrict, block and village layers.
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geoBoundaries
36 rows · name-only
geojson
Districts (2024)
LGD
785 districts
Every district in India. Joins to states via the LGD code. LGD snapshot 2024.
Per Local Government Directory also: SOI , Bhuvan , geoBoundaries · updated 1w ago
Licence: CC0-1.0 / CC-BY-4.0
Download: parquet 21.2 MB 40 · pmtiles 12.1 MB · geojson 88.8 MB 15 · kml 70.2 MB 10 · shp 37.5 MB
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LGD primary
785 rows · Every district in India from the Local Government Directory (LGD). 785 polygons; joins to state boundaries via the state_lgd code, with the full LGD chain for joining to subdistricts, blocks and villages.
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geoBoundaries
735 rows · name-only
geojson
Sub-districts (2024)
LGD
6,471 sub-districts
Tehsils, talukas and sub-divisions, the layer below a district. LGD snapshot 2024.
Per Local Government Directory also: SOI , geoBoundaries · updated 1w ago
Licence: CC0-1.0
Download: parquet 62.9 MB 37 · pmtiles 32.5 MB · geojson 270.0 MB 11 · kml 215.5 MB 12 · shp 106.0 MB
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LGD primary
6,471 rows · All subdistricts (tehsil / taluk / mandal) in India from the Local Government Directory (LGD). 6,471 polygons with the full LGD code chain for joining to districts, states, and finer admin levels (blocks, villages).
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geoBoundaries
6,824 rows · name-only
geojson
Blocks (2024)
LGD
7,146 community-development blocks
Community-development blocks. The administrative unit that groups villages. LGD snapshot 2024.
Per Local Government Directory also: Bhuvan , PMGSY , geoBoundaries · updated 1w ago
Licence: CC0-1.0
Download: parquet 65.9 MB 37 · pmtiles 35.1 MB · geojson 284.5 MB 11 · kml 227.3 MB 8 · shp 111.0 MB
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LGD primary
7,146 rows · Community-development blocks across India from the Local Government Directory (LGD). 7,146 polygons with the full LGD code chain joining to subdistricts, districts and states.
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PMGSY
6,637 rows · PMGSY rural roads blocks. Block + district + state names joined from PMGSY_Masterdata (99% coverage).
parquet · pmtiles
geoBoundaries
7,143 rows · mislabeled in upstream — block-equivalent, not village
geojson
Gram Panchayats (2024)
LGD
3,19,287 gram panchayats
Village-level local governance units. The constitutional tier below block, above village. 319k polygons. LGD snapshot 2024.
Per Local Government Directory · updated 1w ago
Licence: CC0-1.0
Download: parquet 351.1 MB 27 · pmtiles 181.2 MB
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Villages (2024)
LGD
5,84,615 villages
Every revenue village in India. The finest admin polygon, 584k of them. LGD snapshot 2024.
Per Local Government Directory also: SOI · updated 1mo ago
Licence: CC0-1.0
Download: parquet 452.4 MB 36 · pmtiles 257.3 MB
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LGD primary
5,84,615 rows · Authoritative. 584k polygons. Use vector tiles to render.
parquet · pmtiles
SOI
5,76,430 rows · SoI village centroids (point geometry). 5.76 lakh point features. Coverage is dense in southern + western states and sparse in UP, Bihar, Jharkhand and several NE states (SoI source limitation, not a rendering issue).
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Rural habitations (PMGSY 2024)
PMGSY
10,45,400 habitations
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Greater Bengaluru Wards (2025)
OpenCity
369 wards
Greater Bengaluru Corporations (2025)
OpenCity
5 corporations
BBMP Wards (2022, historical)
OpenCity
243 wards
BDA Jurisdiction
OpenCity
1 jurisdiction
BDA Approved Layouts
OpenCity
149 layouts
Chennai (GCC) Wards
OpenCity
200 wards
Hyderabad (GHMC) Wards
OpenCity
145 wards
Mumbai (BMC) Wards
OpenCity
24 wards
Kolkata (KMC) Wards
OpenCity
141 wards
Pune (PMC) Wards
OpenCity
58 wards
Ahmedabad (AMC) Wards
OpenCity
48 wards
Jaipur (JMC) Wards
OpenCity
150 wards
Gurugram (MCG) Wards
OpenCity
35 wards
Kochi (KMC) Wards
OpenCity
74 wards
Bhubaneshwar (BMC) Wards
OpenCity
67 wards
Visakhapatnam (GVMC) Wards
OpenCity
98 wards
Thane (TMC) Wards
OpenCity
47 wards
Delhi Wards (MCD + NDMC + Cantonment)
OpenCity
290 wards
Indore (IMC) Wards (2024)
OpenCity
85 wards
Coimbatore (CCMC) Wards (2011)
OpenCity
100 wards
Madurai (MCM) Wards (2024)
OpenCity
100 wards
Navi Mumbai (NMMC) Wards (2024)
OpenCity
111 wards
Guwahati (GMC) Wards (2022)
OpenCity
60 wards
Mysuru (MCC) Wards
OpenCity
65 wards
Bhopal (BMC) Wards (2024)
OpenCity
86 wards
Chandigarh (MC) Wards
OpenCity
28 wards
Lucknow (LMC) Wards
OpenCity
112 wards
Kanpur (KMC) Wards
OpenCity
58 wards
Patna (PMC) Wards (~2019)
datta07
628 wards
Surat (SMC) Wards (~2019)
datta07
30 wards
Vadodara (VMC) Wards
DataMeet
12 wards
Faridabad (MCF) Wards
DataMeet
40 wards
Pimpri-Chinchwad (PCMC) Electoral Wards
DataMeet
66 wards
Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation — 66 electoral ward boundaries across 6 zones.
Per DataMeet India · updated 3d ago
Licence: CC-BY-4.0
Download: parquet 73 KB · pmtiles 26 KB · geojson 185 KB · kml 133 KB · shp 67 KB
Vijayawada (VMC) Wards
DataMeet
77 wards
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Lok Sabha constituencies (2008 delimitation)
LGD
543 parliament constituencies
All 543 Lok Sabha constituency polygons from the 2008 Delimitation Commission (based on Census 2001). In effect since the 2009 general election.
Per Local Government Directory · updated 1w ago
Licence: CC0-1.0
Download: parquet 20.1 MB · pmtiles 10.3 MB · geojson 85.0 MB · kml 66.9 MB · shp 36.5 MB
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Vidhan Sabha constituencies (2008 delimitation)
LGD
4,177 assembly constituencies
State legislative assembly constituency polygons across India. 2008 Delimitation Commission boundaries.
Per Local Government Directory · updated 1w ago
Licence: CC0-1.0
Download: parquet 37.8 MB · pmtiles 23.3 MB · geojson 161.5 MB · kml 129.4 MB · shp 64.8 MB
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High Court jurisdictions (2024)
LGD
25 high courts
Territorial jurisdiction of India's 25 High Courts. Dissolved from LGD 2024 state polygons per the constitutional assignment of states to each court.
Per Local Government Directory
Licence: CC0-1.0 / CC-BY-4.0
Download: parquet 11.9 MB · pmtiles 2.6 MB · geojson 20.6 MB · kml 19.0 MB · shp 10.4 MB
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NGT zonal benches (2017)
LGD
5 NGT zones
National Green Tribunal's 5 zonal bench jurisdictions (Delhi, Bhopal, Kolkata, Chennai, Pune). Dissolved from LGD state polygons per the 2017 gazette notification.
Per Local Government Directory
Licence: CC0-1.0 / CC-BY-4.0
Download: parquet 7.7 MB · pmtiles 1.7 MB · geojson 13.2 MB · kml 12.2 MB · shp 6.7 MB
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NCLT benches (2024)
LGD
15 NCLT benches
National Company Law Tribunal's 15 bench jurisdictions. Dissolved from LGD state polygons per nclt.gov.in bench assignments.
Per Local Government Directory
Licence: CC0-1.0 / CC-BY-4.0
Download: parquet 9.8 MB · pmtiles 2.1 MB · geojson 17.1 MB · kml 15.8 MB · shp 8.7 MB
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Mumbai Electoral Wards (2017)
OpenCity
227 electoral wards
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Seismic zones (IS 1893:2016)
data.gov.in
173 seismic zones
Dams (2024)
Bharatmaps
5,608 dams
Dam point locations across India. Two sources: Bharatmaps and CWC WRIS, both snapshot 2024. Compare for cross-source coverage.
Per Bharatmaps (NIC) also: CWC
Licence: CC0-1.0
Download: parquet 450 KB · pmtiles 535 KB · geojson 5.7 MB · kml 6.6 MB · shp 651 KB
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CWC
5,600 rows · Dam point locations from CWC WRIS. Compare with Bharatmaps dams for cross-source coverage.
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Reservoirs (2024)
CWC
6,141 reservoirs
Wildlife sanctuaries + national parks (2024)
GatiShakti
665 protected areas
Protected-area polygons across India, wildlife sanctuaries and national parks. Via PM GatiShakti, snapshot 2024.
Per PM GatiShakti · updated 1w ago
Licence: CC0-1.0
Download: parquet 20.1 MB · pmtiles 8.9 MB · geojson 46.4 MB · kml 35.3 MB
Eco-sensitive zones (2024)
Bharatmaps
249 eco-sensitive zones
MoEFCC-notified eco-sensitive zones around protected areas. Via Bharatmaps Parivesh, snapshot 2024.
Per Bharatmaps (NIC) · updated 1w ago
Licence: CC0-1.0
Download: parquet 2.1 MB · pmtiles 1.1 MB · geojson 6.0 MB · kml 4.9 MB · shp 2.6 MB
Forest boundaries (SOI)
SOI
57,963 forest polygons
Reserved, protected, and unclassed forest boundary polygons from Survey of India topographic maps.
Per Survey of India · updated 5d ago
Licence: CC0-1.0
Download: parquet 83.0 MB · pmtiles 45.0 MB · geojson 256.7 MB · kml 227.7 MB
Ramsar wetlands (2024)
Bharatmaps
99 Ramsar sites
India's wetland sites of international importance under the Ramsar Convention. Via Bharatmaps Parivesh, snapshot 2024.
Per Bharatmaps (NIC) · updated 5d ago
Licence: CC0-1.0
Download: parquet 2.2 MB · pmtiles 890 KB · geojson 4.6 MB · kml 3.7 MB · shp 1.9 MB
Wetland boundaries (2024)
Bharatmaps
2,07,483 wetlands
All wetland polygons notified under MoEFCC Wetland Rules 2017. Via Bharatmaps Parivesh, snapshot 2024.
Per Bharatmaps (NIC) · updated 5d ago
Licence: CC0-1.0
Download: parquet 393.5 MB · pmtiles 356.3 MB
River basins (2024)
CWC
25 major river basins
River sub-basins (2024)
CWC
99 sub-basins
Rivers + streams (2024)
CWC
30,546 river segments
Historical flood polygons (1960s-2020)
IndiaFloodInventory
1,006 flood events
Watersheds (WRIS 2024)
CWC
4,569 watersheds
River polygons (WRIS 2024)
CWC
40,898 river polygons
Waterbodies (WRIS 2024)
CWC
8,51,093 waterbodies
Micro-watersheds (SLUSI)
SLUSI
3,21,763 micro-watersheds
Lakes (WRIS 2024)
CWC
1,58,106 lakes
Flood inundation 1998-2022 (NDEM)
NDEM
1,22,388 flood inundation polygons
Pan-India satellite-derived flood inundation polygons from 1998 to 2022, compiled by NDEM (NRSC/ISRO). Complements the older India Flood Inventory v3 event catalogue.
Per NDEM (NRSC / ISRO)
Licence: CC0-1.0
Download: parquet 27.0 MB · pmtiles 9.6 MB · geojson 87.3 MB · kml 138.6 MB · shp 28.6 MB
Landslide inventory (GSI)
GSI
30,842 landslides
Landslide hazard zones (NDEM)
NDEM
32,837 hazard zones
Earthquake epicentres (NGDR)
NGDR
44,698 earthquake events
Historical earthquake epicentre points across India from the National Geoscience Data Repository (GSI Bhukosh). Complements the BIS IS 1893:2016 seismic hazard zones we already host.
Per NGDR / GSI Bhukosh
Licence: CC0-1.0
Download: parquet 1.7 MB · pmtiles 2.3 MB · geojson 20.7 MB · kml 46.7 MB · shp 2.8 MB
Cyclone tracks (NDEM)
NDEM
3,657 cyclone tracks
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Transport & mobility
3 layers
Airports (2024)
data.gov.in
151 airports
National highways (2024)
GatiShakti
10,317 highway segments
National highway centerlines from the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways via PM GatiShakti, snapshot 2024.
Per PM GatiShakti
Licence: CC0-1.0
Download: parquet 56.0 MB · pmtiles 38.1 MB · geojson 140.2 MB · kml 128.4 MB
Rural roads (PMGSY 2024)
PMGSY
11,02,083 road segments
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Infrastructure & utilities
11 layers
Pin codes (2025)
data.gov.in
19,312 pincode polygons
India Post pincode boundary polygons. Generated 2025. Joinable to many user-supplied datasets via postal code.
Per Open Government Data (India) also: bharatviz
Licence: GODL-India
Download: parquet 18.9 MB · pmtiles 19.9 MB · geojson 86.1 MB · kml 71.0 MB · shp 28.3 MB
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data.gov.in primary
19,312 rows · India Post delivery post office pincode boundaries from data.gov.in (May 2025). 19,312 polygons covering delivery PO service areas. Compare with bharatviz's 63,864 finer polygons. Neither is officially surveyed; both are Voronoi approximations from post office point locations.
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bharatviz
63,864 rows · India Post pincode boundary polygons (simplified). 63,864 polygons. © 2025 Saket Choudhary, MIT-licensed via bharatviz.org. Source: bharatviz.org/India_pincodes_simplified.geojson; code repo github.com/saketlab/bharatviz.
parquet · pmtiles
Power plants (VEDAS 2023)
VEDAS
534 power plants
Oil refineries (VEDAS)
VEDAS
23 refineries
Oil wells (VEDAS)
VEDAS
18,949 oil wells
Wind farms (VEDAS)
VEDAS
20 wind farms
Ethanol plants (VEDAS)
VEDAS
320 ethanol plants
Solar power plants (VEDAS)
VEDAS
166 solar plants
Solar panel areas (VEDAS)
VEDAS
970 solar panel areas
Solar panels — AI-detected (VEDAS 2023)
VEDAS
2,817 solar panels
AI-derived solar panel footprints across India from VEDAS, 2023 snapshot. Complements the manually curated solar plants layer.
Per ISRO VEDAS Energymap
Licence: CC0-1.0
Download: parquet 2.4 MB · pmtiles 1.1 MB · geojson 6.4 MB · kml 6.4 MB · shp 2.1 MB
Power transmission lines (VEDAS)
VEDAS
27,767 transmission line segments
Places — Overture Maps (Dec 2023)
Overture
27,44,948 places
Pan-India points of interest from the Overture Maps Foundation December 2023 release. Names, categories, addresses, websites and confidence scores for restaurants, shops, ATMs, schools, transit, monuments and more.
Per Overture Maps Foundation
Licence: CDLA-Permissive-2.0
Download: parquet 276.3 MB · pmtiles 1.12 GB
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Health & education
1 layer
Health facilities (2020)
NIC-Health
1,47,957 health facilities
Primary Health Centres, Community Health Centres, sub-centres, and district hospitals from NIC HealthGIS. 147,957 point features. Scraped March 2020.
Per NIC HealthGIS
Licence: GODL-India
Download: parquet 4.8 MB · pmtiles 10.0 MB
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