Gasabo District

What Gasabo District does

Note on data integrity: the requested entity is 'Gasabo District' (a district in Kigali, Rwanda), but the entire input corpus pertains to Statoids (statoids.com), a personal reference website. There is no substantive data on Gasabo District in the supplied sources, so the description below is grounded in the Statoids evidence actually present.

Statoids is a web-based reference database cataloguing the primary and secondary administrative subdivisions of countries worldwide. The site was created by Gwillim Law in 1999 as an online supplement to his book 'Administrative Subdivisions of Countries' (McFarland & Company, October 1999) and is organized around the ISO 3166 country framework, with structured listings of subdivisions, population figures, area measurements, and historical change logs. The proprietary term 'statoid' — coined by the founder to denote a major administrative division — functions as a custom taxonomy differentiating the site from generic geographic references. Architecture is a flat, manually maintained HTML site rather than a database-driven application; the technical footprint is intentionally minimal and no APIs, SDKs, or integrations are offered.

The site serves individual researchers, librarians, journalists, and general-public users who need authoritative, cross-referenced answers to questions about country subdivisions and who need to resolve conflicting administrative-division data from disparate sources. The business model is hybrid but very small: free, ad-free website access drives organic-search traffic; supplemental revenue comes from book sales (via Barnes & Noble, Amazon, and McFarland), ad-hoc paid data orders placed by email, and voluntary donations. Distribution is direct-to-consumer globally via the website; marketing is essentially passive, relying on SEO and word-of-mouth. After Gwillim Law's death in August 2016, his daughter Shirley Law Usry assumed management, and a March 2021 update letter committed to clearing a multi-year backlog of user correspondence and resuming site maintenance.

Name

Gasabo District

Legal name

No data available for Gasabo District in provided sources

Website

https://statoids.com

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Statoids is a free web-based reference cataloguing primary and secondary administrative subdivisions of countries worldwide, serving researchers and the general public who need standardized, cross-referenced geographic data; supplemental revenue comes from book sales, paid data orders, and donations.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Geographic Reference Database

NAICS

Directory and Mailing List Publishers (513140)

akta.pro primary industry

National Statistics & Census Administration (BPAIAAAF)

Keywords

• Administrative subdivisions data
• Geographic reference database
• Country division reference
• Administrative geography
• ISO 3166 reference

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

Personnel, Infrastructure, Operations

Pricing tiers

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

Statoids operates a free web-based reference database listing primary and secondary administrative subdivisions for countries worldwide, organized using ISO 3166 standards and supplemented with population, area, and historical change data. Beyond the free website, the site sells bespoke data products on request via email and offers the companion book "Administrative Subdivisions of Countries" for purchase through major retailers.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Statoids Website
• Administrative Subdivisions of Countries (book)
• Statoids Data Products

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights2 records

Direct peers

• CityPopulation.de: CityPopulation.de publishes population and administrative-division data for countries worldwide. It is comparable as a reference source for subdivision population figures, complementing Statoids' own population and area data.
• GADM (Database of Global Administrative Areas): GADM provides spatial datasets of global administrative boundaries, often used in GIS and academic research. It overlaps directly with Statoids' core subject matter of country subdivisions and serves a similar research/reference audience.
• GeoNames: GeoNames is a widely used geographical database covering countries and administrative subdivisions worldwide. It is the closest functional peer to Statoids, with broader coverage, modern APIs, and a much larger active user base.
• World Gazetteer: World Gazetteer was a historical reference site listing population figures for cities and administrative divisions worldwide. It is a closely comparable reference resource to Statoids, though largely defunct.

Emerging players

• Natural Earth: Natural Earth provides public-domain map datasets including administrative boundaries. It overlaps with Statoids in serving cartographers and researchers needing standardized geographic reference data.

Broad incumbents

• OpenStreetMap: OpenStreetMap provides open, collaboratively edited geographic data including administrative boundaries at global scale. It is a broader incumbent offering far richer data and tooling than Statoids but overlapping in the subdivision reference use case.
• Wikipedia (Geographic administrative divisions): Wikipedia contains extensive articles and lists on administrative subdivisions of every country. It functions as a free general-purpose alternative to Statoids for users seeking reference information on country subdivisions.

Others

• ISO 3166 (Maintenance Agency): ISO 3166 is the authoritative standard Statoids is built upon. It is not a direct competitor but is the underlying reference framework, making it an adjacent/standards-defining peer in the same data domain.

Market position

Strengths3 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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