Below you can find the location of administrative headquarters in various African countries. I collected this data for my paper The State, Chiefs, and Development: Evidence from Africa. Please cite this if you use the data.
Please consult the ReadMe for more information.
A table summarizing the changes over time can be found here.
Lastly, this table explains for each country what sources were used and other things to note.
Benin: Department 2017; Commune 2017
Botswana: District 2002; District 2017; Sub-District 2002; Sub-District 2017
Burkina Faso: Province 2017; Department 2017
Burundi: Province 2017; Commune 2017
Cameroon: Department 2017; Commune 2017
Chad: Region 2002; Region 2008; Region 2012; Department 2002; Department 2008; Department 2012; Department 2017
Cote d'Ivoire: Region 2017; District 2017; Department 2017; Sub-Prefecture 2017
Ghana: Region 2017; District 2000; District 2006; District 2010; District 2012
Kenya: Province 2002; County 2017; Constituency 2002; Constituency 2017
Liberia: County 2017
Madagascar: Region 2017; Department 2000; Department 2010
Malawi: Region 2017; District 2017
Mali: Cercle 2017; Commune 2017
Mauritania: Region 2002; Department 2002
Mozambique: Province 2017; District 2002; District 2013
Namibia: Region 2002; Region 2013; Constituency 2002; Constituency 2013
Niger: Region 2017; Department 2002; Department 2011
Nigeria: State 2017; LGA 2017
Senegal: Region 2002; Region 2008; Department 2002; Department 2008
Sierra Leone: Province 2017; District 2017
South Africa: District 2017; LC 2017
Togo: Region 2017; Prefecture 2002; Prefecture 2010
Tanzania: Region 2002; Region 2012; District 2002; District 2012
Uganda: District 2002; District 2006; District 2010
Zambia: Province 2002; Province 2011; District 2002; District 2013
Zimbabwe: Province 2017; District 2017