Free Shape Files for districts of the world

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I am looking for shape files(polygons data) of all the districts in the world. I can find few files from different sources for districts of one country but I need one (updated) file that have all the districts in the world OR one reliable source from where I can get files may be one per country. Please help me find.

PS: shape files for countries and regions are easily available but not required in my case.

also, not 100% on this, but open data may be more appropriate for this question: http://opendata.stackexchange.com — albert, Dec 20 '13 at 21:50
Do you mean 1st level administrative divisions? This would correspond to states in the US and provinces/territories in Canada. — Andrew - OpenGeoCode, Dec 22 '13 at 18:01
and by world districts I mean district of all the cities or states in the world. like New York consists 27 Congressional Districts. — Asim Saeed, Dec 23 '13 at 06:56

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 12 '14 at 22:46

Geofabrik (http://download.geofabrik.de/) contains shapefiles for the whole world generated from OpenstreetMap data. These include administrative areas.

Natural Earth (see http://www.naturalearthdata.com/features/) has first-order administrative boundaries for the whole world.

Free Shape Files for districts of the world

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