Research Guides: GIS, Map and Statistics: China: Geospatial Data

GIS program tutorial

China Geo-Explorer User's Guide
[Currently unavailable] Created by University of Michigan China Data Center. Provide information about system interface, administrative units, regional selection, time series data, location selection, and Theme maps.

Center for GIS, RCHSS, Academic Sinica
Provides a variety of China and Taiwan geo-spatial data, maps and remote sensing images.
Health GIS
GIS service from Taiwan Academia Sinica. Provide Health GIS program by using Google earth.

CD-Roms of 2010 China census data is available from Asia Library.

Census and Regional Systems data 1990 (China A)
This dataset contains 1990 census and agricultural economics variables for every county-level unit in China.
China 2000 township population census data with maps
Includes 2000 township GIS maps with about 2,000 variables from 2000 population Census data for all townships. CD-ROM. Located in Asian Library.
China and County & City Population 1999
Contain records for 2357 administrative units for the year 1999. The table was compiled by Harvard University Committee on the Environment. Excel format.
China Dimensions Collection (SEDAC)
Offered by Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC) at NASA. Include a variety of socioeconomic data, including GIS databases that cover the administrative regions of China.
China In Time and Space (CITAS) data
Provide China's county-level data and base maps for the period 1982-1990. Include vectorized base maps, georeferenced social economic data, bibliographic resources and utilities for coding data of administrative units.
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Although vectorized administrative boundary data are listed separately, each county-level dataset come bundled with a corresponding boundary file. Depending on the dataset, data are provided in ARC/INFO interchange format, SPSS, or ASCII.
GADM Maps and Data
Provides a spatial database of the location of the world's administrative areas. The data are avilable as shapefile, ESRI geodatabase, RData, and Google Earth kmz format. Data can be downloaded by country.

Sidney Gamble Photo digital collection
Gamble's photo digital collection of China's urban and rural life from 1908 to 1932. Created by Duke University. Open to public.
China Historical GIS
Provide a database of populated places and historical administrative units fro the period of Chinese history between 221 BCE and 1911 CE.
Religious Atlas of China and the Himalayas
Includes names, dates, coordinates, and associated information for several thousand religious places in China and the Himalayas, including mosques, churches and temples; sacred mountains; religious kingdoms, and monumental statuary. Research project of Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative (ECAI).