Wikidata:Property proposal/census area code

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Indian census area code[edit]

Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Generic

Descriptioncode used for an area for census calculations in India
Data typeExternal identifier
Domainstates, cities, villages, towns
Example
Sourcehttp://data.gov.in
Motivation

The census data in India given by data.gov.in has been released under NDSAP. This has a list of villages and cities which have a specific code and also population data. To keep track of census data over years and easily query the city/town/district/state (As names are not unique) the code is helpful. AbdealiJK (talk) 20:47, 16 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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