GIS Resources

This page contains information related to all aspects of Geospatial Technology in Myanmar, including Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Global Positioning System (GPS), Remote Sensing (RS) and relevant resources which could support development of a National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI). The aim of this page is to provide actors across the sector with information that will enable greater coordination, transparency, and efficiency of operations across sectors.

Information on this page includes situation updates and analysis, information on inter-agency coordination and activities under implementation, the MIMU GIS data repository, tools and methods, innovative approaches, some interesting and useful maps and publications, and also key technical guidelines, standardization, and resources related to the GeoSpatial Technoligies sector.

Current Situation

 

Updates

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Status_of_villages_with_GPS_coordinates_MIMU862v01_Feb2025_A3.pdf pdf
4.36 MB 04-Feb-2025

Core Documents

 

ToR

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ToR_GIS Working Group_2022_MMR.pdf pdf
160.08 KB 23-May-2023
ToR_GIS Working Group_2022.pdf pdf
133.76 KB 15-Dec-2022

Maps

Maps and Icons for Presentations and Reports

It shouldn't take years of GIS expertise and hours of tinkering to use just simple yet beautiful maps in your presentations and reports. In this PowerPoint file, you will find the maps of Myanmar at the country, state/region, district, and township levels along with humanitarian icons from OCHA -- all compiled in easy-to-use and extremely customizable formats.    

Disclaimer:
In accessing this page, you agree with the MIMU Terms and Conditions of Use in their entirety, including the following:

  • MIMU Products are prepared using available information from various sources and are provided “as is”, without guarantee of any kind about the completeness, accuracy, reliability or suitability of the information contained.
  • The boundaries and names shown, and the designations used on MIMU products and maps, do not imply any opinion or endorsement of these terms by the United Nations The United Nations encourages authorities to review place names which include terms that may be viewed or perceived as derogatory.
  • The MIMU Website includes recently prepared products. Earlier maps and MIMU products are available on request – please contact [email protected]
  • MIMU products are prepared as a service to support humanitarian and development activities in Myanmar and are for operational purposes only. MIMU products cannot be used for commercial or advertising purposes.

MIMU Geospatial Data

You can download the geospatial data in ESRI Shape file format for Myanmar, State & Region, District, Township, Village Tract, Village levels and for special regions through http://geonode.themimu.info

The datasets contain administrative boundaries, roads, railway, Town, Village, land use/land cover, etc.

The datasets are developed by WFP, UNODC, UNEP, UN OCHA and MIMU,  in intermediate-scale at 1:250,000 (approximately in Quarter Inch scale) in Geographic Coordinate System using WGS 1984 Datum and from other relevent datasets for Myanmar acquired from Digital Chart of the World (DCW), GeoNetwork, etc.

Excel Mapping Tool

 

This tool uses MIMU Place Codes to enable the preparation of simple "heatmaps" to compare data from Excel spreadsheets across states/regions and townships. It can compare and contrast different indicators from larger, national datasets such as the 2014 Myanmar Population and Housing Census, and also used with agencies' own information from different areas.

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Excel_Heat_Mapping_MIMU_V206_20200513.zip zip
21.21 MB 14-May-2020

Useful Resources

  

Place Codes

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Myanmar_PCodes_Release_9.6_Feb2025_Countrywide-Villages_only.xlsm xlsm
10.17 MB 11-Feb-2025
Myanmar_PCodes_Release_9.6_Feb2025_Countrywide.xlsm xlsm
12 MB 11-Feb-2025
Myanmar_PCodes_Release_9.6_Feb2025_Ayeyarwady.xlsm xlsm
2.11 MB 11-Feb-2025
MIMU_PCode_ChangeHistory_Version9.5_to_Version9.6_4Feb2025.xlsx xlsx
302.82 KB 11-Feb-2025
MIMU_PCoder_9.6.zip zip
41.89 MB 07-Feb-2025
Status_of_villages_with_GPS_coordinates_MIMU862v01_Feb2025_A3.pdf pdf
4.36 MB 04-Feb-2025
MIMU_PCodesMajorChangesbetweenVersion9.5and9.6_4Feb2025.pdf pdf
5.16 MB 04-Feb-2025
Myanmar_PCodes_Release_9.6_Feb2025_Yangon.xlsm xlsm
615.17 KB 04-Feb-2025
Myanmar_PCodes_Release_9.6_Feb2025_Tanintharyi.xlsm xlsm
386.32 KB 04-Feb-2025
Myanmar_PCodes_Release_9.6_Feb2025_Shan.xlsm xlsm
2.86 MB 04-Feb-2025
Myanmar_PCodes_Release_9.6_Feb2025_Sagaing.xlsm xlsm
1.27 MB 04-Feb-2025
Myanmar_PCodes_Release_9.6_Feb2025_Rakhine.xlsm xlsm
898.31 KB 04-Feb-2025
Myanmar_PCodes_Release_9.6_Feb2025_Nay_Pyi_Taw.xlsm xlsm
301.71 KB 04-Feb-2025
Myanmar_PCodes_Release_9.6_Feb2025_Mon.xlsm xlsm
380.28 KB 04-Feb-2025
Myanmar_PCodes_Release_9.6_Feb2025_Mandalay.xlsm xlsm
1.01 MB 04-Feb-2025
Myanmar_PCodes_Release_9.6_Feb2025_Magway.xlsm xlsm
1012.32 KB 04-Feb-2025
Myanmar_PCodes_Release_9.6_Feb2025_Kayin.xlsm xlsm
492.21 KB 04-Feb-2025
Myanmar_PCodes_Release_9.6_Feb2025_Kayah.xlsm xlsm
258.22 KB 04-Feb-2025
Myanmar_PCodes_Release_9.6_Feb2025_Kachin.xlsm xlsm
653.19 KB 04-Feb-2025
Myanmar_PCodes_Release_9.6_Feb2025_Chin.xlsm xlsm
413.7 KB 04-Feb-2025
Myanmar_PCodes_Release_9.6_Feb2025_Bago.xlsm xlsm
1.24 MB 04-Feb-2025
Myanmar_PCodes_Release_9.6_Feb2025_StRgn_Dist_Tsp_Town_Ward_VT.xlsm xlsm
1.99 MB 04-Feb-2025
MIMU_PCode_ChangeHistory_Version9.4_to_Version9.5_13Feb2024.xlsx xlsx
221.6 KB 24-Jan-2025
MIMU_PCodesMajorChangesbetweenVersion9.4and9.5_13Feb24.pdf pdf
3.63 MB 13-Feb-2024
MIMU_PCodesMajorChangesbetweenVersionV9.3and9.4_09May2023.pdf pdf
6.19 MB 11-May-2023
MIMU_PCode_ChangeHistory_Version9.3_to_Version9.4_04May2023.xlsx xlsx
290.95 KB 09-May-2023
MIMU Pcoder Guildeline_12Mar2021_Eng.pdf pdf
539.23 KB 15-Mar-2021
MIMU Pcoder Guildeline_12Mar2021_MMR.pdf pdf
636.07 KB 15-Mar-2021
MIMU_PCodesMajorChangesbetweenVersionV9.2and9.3_02Feb2020.pdf pdf
2.88 MB 02-Feb-2021
MIMU_PCode_ChangeHistory_Version9.2_to_Version9.3_23Jan2021.xlsx xlsx
48.53 KB 29-Jan-2021
Pcodes_Read_Me_9.2_20Mar2020.pdf pdf
348.16 KB 20-Mar-2020
Administrative_Structure_2008Constitution_20Mar2020.pdf pdf
108.66 KB 20-Mar-2020
MIMU_PCodesMajorChangesbetweenVersionV9and9.1_24Jan2020.pdf pdf
384.72 KB 13-Feb-2020

Baseline Data

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MIMU_BaselineData_AllSectors_Countrywide_5Mar2025.zip zip
10.72 MB 04-Mar-2025
MIMU_BaselineData_InfoCom_Countrywide_5Mar2025.zip zip
169.42 KB 04-Mar-2025
MIMU_BaselineData_Agriculture_Countrywide_5Mar2025.zip zip
690.08 KB 04-Mar-2025
MIMU_BaselineData_Demography_Countrywide_5Mar2025.zip zip
2.93 MB 04-Mar-2025
MIMU_BaselineData_Economy_Countrywide_5Mar2025.zip zip
795.46 KB 04-Mar-2025
MIMU_BaselineData_Education_Countrywide_5Mar2025.zip zip
1.83 MB 04-Mar-2025
MIMU_BaselineData_Environment_Countrywide_5Mar2025.zip zip
2 MB 04-Mar-2025
MIMU_BaselineData_Health_Countrywide_5Mar2025.zip zip
591.43 KB 04-Mar-2025
MIMU_BaselineData_Nutrition_Countrywide_5Mar2025.zip zip
140.32 KB 04-Mar-2025
MIMU_BaselineData_Protection_Countrywide_5Mar2025.zip zip
837.53 KB 04-Mar-2025
MIMU_BaselineData_Transportation_Countrywide_5Mar2025.zip zip
194.75 KB 04-Mar-2025
MIMU_BaselineData_Gender_Countrywide_5Mar2025.zip zip
48.75 KB 04-Mar-2025
MIMU_BaselineData_PeaceBuilding_Countrywide_5Mar2025.zip zip
87 KB 04-Mar-2025
MIMU_BaselineData_AllSectors_Kayin_5Mar2025.zip zip
344.25 KB 04-Mar-2025
MIMU_BaselineData_AllSectors_Mon_5Mar2025.zip zip
417.74 KB 04-Mar-2025
MIMU_BaselineData_AllSectors_Yangon_5Mar2025.zip zip
1.21 MB 04-Mar-2025
MIMU_BaselineData_AllSectors_Tanintharyi_5Mar2025.zip zip
410.11 KB 04-Mar-2025
MIMU_BaselineData_AllSectors_Shan_5Mar2025.zip zip
1.63 MB 04-Mar-2025
MIMU_BaselineData_AllSectors_Sagaing_5Mar2025.zip zip
1.17 MB 04-Mar-2025
MIMU_BaselineData_AllSectors_Nay_Pyi_Taw_5Mar2025.zip zip
326.13 KB 04-Mar-2025
MIMU_BaselineData_AllSectors_Magway_5Mar2025.zip zip
853.98 KB 04-Mar-2025
MIMU_BaselineData_AllSectors_Kachin_5Mar2025.zip zip
623.55 KB 04-Mar-2025
MIMU_BaselineData_AllSectors_Kayah_5Mar2025.zip zip
326.83 KB 04-Mar-2025
MIMU_BaselineData_AllSectors_Bago_5Mar2025.zip zip
949.77 KB 04-Mar-2025
MIMU_BaselineData_AllSectors_Rakhine_5Mar2025.zip zip
616.28 KB 04-Mar-2025
MIMU_BaselineData_AllSectors_Ayeyarwady_5Mar2025.zip zip
876.03 KB 04-Mar-2025
MIMU_BaselineData_AllSectors_Chin_5Mar2025.zip zip
384.77 KB 04-Mar-2025
MIMU_BaselineData_AllSectors_Mandalay_5Mar2025.zip zip
939.58 KB 04-Mar-2025
MIMU_BaselineData_HealthFacilities_All_StateRegion_GAD2019_26Nov2020.xlsx xlsx
1.34 MB 01-Feb-2021
MIMU_BaselineData_HardToReach_08May2019.xls xls
748.5 KB 01-Oct-2019

Technical Guidance & Reference Documents

Georeferenced and Cropped Historic Topographic Maps of Myanmar

Courtesy of a community creator on Zenodo, a georeferenced (to WGS1984) and cropped set of about 820 historic "63k Maps of Burma" at a scale of 1 inch per mile (1:63,360), half inch (1:126,720), quarter inch (1:253,440) are now available, covering about 75% of the country. These topographic maps, originally produced and published by the Royal Survey of India between 1899 and 1946, have been scanned and shared with the public by John Brown under a CC BY 4.0 International Licence.

Since John Brown’s original scans were in the Everest 1830 projection, these were first converted to the WGS1984 (EPSG4326) standard projection. Next, the cropping process kept only the map area, allowing a seamless mosaic without overlapping map frames when multiple sheets are combined in GIS software. The aim is to make them easier to use and integrate with other GIS data.

Kindly note that this dataset and any work related to it, is not and was not related to MIMU. The link to these already publicly available resources is shared for reference only. MIMU is not responsible for their creation, publication or any past, current or future use.

For more information and to download the maps, please visit the page on Zenodo:

  1. https://zenodo.org/records/11367062
    Georeferenced and cropped "One Inch" (1:63,360) maps of Burma (colonial period)
  2. https://zenodo.org/records/13346102
    Georeferenced and cropped "Half Inch" (1:126,720) maps of Burma (colonial period)
  3. https://zenodo.org/records/13341173
    Georeferenced and cropped "Quarter Inch" (1:253,440) maps of Burma (colonial period)
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