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Africa

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The OpenStreetMap data files provided on this server do not contain the user names, user IDs and changeset IDs of the OSM objects because these fields are assumed to contain personal information about the OpenStreetMap contributors and are therefore subject to data protection regulations in the European Union.
Extracts with full metadata are available to OpenStreetMap contributors only.

Commonly Used Formats

• africa-latest.osm.pbf, suitable for Osmium, Osmosis, imposm, osm2pgsql, mkgmap, and others. This file was last modified 7 hours ago and contains all OSM data up to 2025-08-07T20:21:29Z. File size: 6.9 GB; MD5 sum: 12cc073e460297fbbb10effc42806c2a.
• africa-latest-free.shp.zip is not available for this region; try one of the sub-regions.

Other Formats and Auxiliary Files

• africa-internal.osh.pbf The history file contains personal data and is available on the internal server only. See notice above for further information.
• .poly file that describes the extent of this region.
• .osc.gz files that contain all changes in this region, suitable e.g. for Osmosis updates
• Taginfo statistics for this region
• raw directory index allowing you to see and download older files

Sub Regions

Click on the region name to see the overview page for that region, or select one of the file extension links for quick access.

Sub Region	Quick Links
	.osm.pbf		.shp.zip
Algeria	[.osm.pbf]	(275 MB)
Angola	[.osm.pbf]	(73 MB)
Benin	[.osm.pbf]	(44.3 MB)
Botswana	[.osm.pbf]	(83 MB)
Burkina Faso	[.osm.pbf]	(75 MB)
Burundi	[.osm.pbf]	(43.7 MB)
Cameroon	[.osm.pbf]	(203 MB)	[.shp.zip]
Canary Islands	[.osm.pbf]	(53 MB)	[.shp.zip]
Cape Verde	[.osm.pbf]	(11.0 MB)
Central African Republic	[.osm.pbf]	(93 MB)	[.shp.zip]
Chad	[.osm.pbf]	(101 MB)	[.shp.zip]
Comores	[.osm.pbf]	(3.7 MB)	[.shp.zip]
Congo (Republic/Brazzaville)	[.osm.pbf]	(27.5 MB)
Congo (Democratic Republic/Kinshasa)	[.osm.pbf]	(382 MB)
Djibouti	[.osm.pbf]	(6.6 MB)
Egypt	[.osm.pbf]	(164 MB)	[.shp.zip]
Equatorial Guinea	[.osm.pbf]	(6.1 MB)
Eritrea	[.osm.pbf]	(26.5 MB)	[.shp.zip]
Ethiopia	[.osm.pbf]	(100 MB)
Gabon	[.osm.pbf]	(21.4 MB)
Ghana	[.osm.pbf]	(100 MB)	[.shp.zip]
Guinea	[.osm.pbf]	(106 MB)
Guinea-Bissau	[.osm.pbf]	(9.9 MB)	[.shp.zip]
Ivory Coast	[.osm.pbf]	(72 MB)
Kenya	[.osm.pbf]	(307 MB)
Lesotho	[.osm.pbf]	(116 MB)	[.shp.zip]
Liberia	[.osm.pbf]	(35.0 MB)
Libya	[.osm.pbf]	(71 MB)
Madagascar	[.osm.pbf]	(358 MB)	[.shp.zip]
Malawi	[.osm.pbf]	(135 MB)
Mali	[.osm.pbf]	(161 MB)	[.shp.zip]
Mauritania	[.osm.pbf]	(27.1 MB)
Mauritius	[.osm.pbf]	(7.6 MB)	[.shp.zip]
Morocco	[.osm.pbf]	(226 MB)
Mozambique	[.osm.pbf]	(211 MB)	[.shp.zip]
Namibia	[.osm.pbf]	(48.2 MB)
Niger	[.osm.pbf]	(68 MB)
Nigeria	[.osm.pbf]	(624 MB)
Rwanda	[.osm.pbf]	(54 MB)
Saint Helena, Ascension, and Tristan da Cunha	[.osm.pbf]	(716 KB)	[.shp.zip]
Sao Tome and Principe	[.osm.pbf]	(1.2 MB)	[.shp.zip]
Senegal and Gambia	[.osm.pbf]	(97 MB)
Seychelles	[.osm.pbf]	(2.6 MB)	[.shp.zip]
Sierra Leone	[.osm.pbf]	(37.9 MB)
Somalia	[.osm.pbf]	(151 MB)
South Africa	[.osm.pbf]	(355 MB)	[.shp.zip]
South Sudan	[.osm.pbf]	(115 MB)	[.shp.zip]
Sudan	[.osm.pbf]	(124 MB)
Swaziland	[.osm.pbf]	(28.8 MB)	[.shp.zip]
Tanzania	[.osm.pbf]	(667 MB)
Togo	[.osm.pbf]	(57 MB)
Tunisia	[.osm.pbf]	(78 MB)
Uganda	[.osm.pbf]	(332 MB)
Zambia	[.osm.pbf]	(238 MB)
Zimbabwe	[.osm.pbf]	(166 MB)

Special Sub Regions

These regions are "special" because they are outside of the usual administrative hierarchies and may duplicate data already contained in the other sub regions.

Sub Region	Quick Links
	.osm.pbf		.shp.zip
South Africa (includes Lesotho)	[.osm.pbf]	(470 MB)