Schema	iso19139
Purpose	Soil base data for general and analysis purpose.
Descriptive Keyword	Soil, Geology (theme) Hindu Kush Himalayan Region, HKH (place)

Metadata Record Info
Language	eng
Charset	utf8
Hierarchy Level
Date	2026-01-26T14:08:39
Standard Name	ISO 19115:2003/19139

Contact
Name		Email	metadata@icimod.org
Organization Name	ICIMOD	Voice	977-1-5275222
Position name		Address	Khumaltar Lalitpur Kathmandu 3226 Nepal
Role	pointOfContact

Identification Info
Title	Soils of Hindu Kush Himalayan (HKH) Region
Date	2007-09-21
Date Type	publication
Abstract	Digital polygon dataset of Soils of Hindu Kush Himalayan (HKH) Region. This dataset is basic Vector layer acquired from FAO.
Purpose	Soil base data for general and analysis purpose.
Status	completed
Charset	utf8
Topic Category	environment
Spatial Representation Type	vector
Equivalent Scale	2000000

Point Of Contact
Individual Name		Email	metadata@icimod.org
Organization Name	ICIMOD	Voice	977-1-5275222
Position name		Address	Khumaltar Lalitpur Kathmandu 3226 Nepal
Role	pointOfContact

Geographic Extent
Geographic Extent East	105.044632	Geographic Extent West	60.853848
Geographic Extent North	39.318611	Geographic Extent South	15.9578

Resource Maintenance Information
Maintenance and update frequency	asNeeded
User Defined Maintenance Frequency
Date of Next Update

Legal Constraints
Use Limitation	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Access Constraints	copyright
Use Constraints	otherRestrictions

Reference System Information
Code	WGS 1984

Data Quality Info
Hierarchy level	dataset

Distributor Info
Email	metadata@icimod.org	Organization Name	ICIMOD
Voice	977-1-5275222	Position name	Sr. Cartographer/GIS Analyst
Address	Khumaltar Lalitpur Kathmandu 3226 Nepal	Role	distributor