The Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC)

Description

Geospatial data of 53 African countries that have joined the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) up until August 2022. Found in 2000, FOCAC aims to promote diplomacy, trade, security, and investment relations between China and African countries.

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Source

Data were collected from the official website of FOCAC. The geospatial features, including polygons and boundaries of regions, are sourced from Natural Earth, Admin 0 – Countries version 5.1.1 (Published on 12 May 2022). For metadata, such as data description and available methods for geospatial data processing, please read the readme.pdf.

Terms of use

This dataset features in a collection of geospatial data "Geo-mapping databases for the Belt and Road Initiative". To cite this work, available citation styles can be found here: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.6076193