This polygon shapefile represents the Commune Boundaries for the Aude department of France for 2010. These are the level 5 administrative divisions (ADM5) of Aude. French communes are roughly equivalent to townships or incorporated municipalities.This dataset is intended for researchers, students, and policy makers for reference and mapping purposes, and may be used for basic applications such as viewing, querying, and map output production, or to provide a basemap to support graphical overlays and analysis with other spatial data.