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Takhar

First-level unit, Afghanistan: people, area, the units inside and neighbours, with risk values when released.

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Page GRX-AFG-REdition Baseline Edition 2026Evidence close 2026-09-30ISO AFG / AFStatus UN member stateValues not yet publishedMethod v1.0.0-draft
1,761,991
people (GHSL 2025)
12,412 km²
area
4%
of Afghanistan
17
units inside

01Kaart

Inside Takhar

The 17 ADM2 units of Takhar.

FIG 1 · 17 units inside Takhar
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Units rise with people per km² · GHSL 2025 raster · terrain · ADM1 ADM2Risk values when released
Lowest fifthLow fifthMiddle fifthHigh fifthHighest fifthNo data
Column height and colour show people per km² by unit, in quantile fifths among the units shown (the key on the map gives the breaks); units with no people on the grid are grey, not the lowest class; the raster beneath is the GHSL 2025 population grid. Source observations, not index values. Choose a humanitarian figure from the list to colour and raise the units by it; each figure shows its source on the unit page. Select a unit to drill into the units inside it; the path above the map climbs back.
02Figures

People, area and density

Source observations from open grids summed inside the boundary; not index values.

Mense · GHSL 2025

1,761,991

4% of Afghanistan.

Mense · WorldPop 2025

1,506,658

-14% against GHSL; the two grids differ in method.

Area

12,412 km²

142 people per km².

Code

AF-TAK

Subdivision code as carried by the boundary source.

03Humanitarian data

Takhar in humanitarian data

Source observations from the Humanitarian Data Exchange, matched to this unit by name, each with its reference date, provider and licence. They are not index values.

Poverty headcount · 2023-12-31

50.4%

of people in multidimensional poverty. Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative · Public Domain / No restrictions (CC0).

Rainfall · 2026-10-10

85%

of the long-term average, latest dekad. WFP – World Food Programme · Creative Commons Attribution International (CC BY).

04Units

17 units inside Takhar

Each unit has its own page.

Boundary licences: Public Domain

Unit Code People (GHSL) People (WorldPop) Area km² Per km² Share Coast ≤ 10 m
Baharak – 61,347 103,579 231.26 265 3.6% 0
Bangi – 51,847 53,943 566.48 92 3% 0
Chah Ab – 137,436 66,457 764.14 180 8% 0
Chal – 49,978 20,792 331.11 151 2.9% 0
Darqad – 57,910 106,368 392.7 147 3.4% 0
Dashti Qala – 44,591 96,125 280.92 159 2.6% 0
Farkhar – 84,425 42,389 1,215.96 69 4.9% 0
Hazar Sumuch – 29,306 13,678 309.63 95 1.7% 0
Ishkamish – 106,408 81,048 806.72 132 6.2% 0
Kalfagan – 60,645 46,884 479.3 127 3.5% 0
Khwaja Bahawuddin – 36,289 42,372 178.24 204 2.1% 0
Khwaja Ghar – 120,554 105,398 402.61 299 7% 0
Namak Ab – 22,527 22,665 584.42 39 1.3% 0
Rustaq – 289,715 172,623 1,938.5 149 16.9% 0
Taluqan – 413,165 398,518 875.95 472 24.1% 0
Warsaj – 68,712 31,040 2,706.88 25 4% 0
Yangi Qala – 77,998 68,977 247.43 315 4.6% 0
05Exposure

Open exposure layers

Count of H3 resolution-3 cells whose centre falls in the unit and that carry each Natural Earth layer.

Urban areas
99.7 H3 cells
Hawens
None at this resolution
Lughawens
None at this resolution
Major roads
438.4 H3 cells
Spoorweë
53.8 H3 cells
Rivers and lakes
215.5 H3 cells
06Risiko

Risk values

Values when released. Subnational risk values for Takhar publish with the edition from The Global Risks Index. Until then, run a scenario on open data for Afghanistan.
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07Neighbours

Neighbouring units

08Bronne

Sources, credits and licences

ADM1 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen AFG ADM1, source: Wikimedia, geoBoundaries, licence: Public Domain · source · represents 2007
ADM2 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen AFG ADM2, source: Afghanistan Information Management Services, Esri Disaster Response Program, licence: Public Domain · source · represents 2014
Basemap
OpenFreeMap © OpenMapTiles (CC BY 4.0) · data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0). Vector tiles requested by the reader’s browser, unmodified; the map falls back to plain land and sea when the host does not answer.
Terrain
Terrain Tiles (Mapzen, AWS Open Data), compiled from SRTM and other public elevation sources (NASA, USGS, ETOPO1, GMTED, EU-DEM under the Copernicus programme, Geoscience Australia, Kartverket, INEGI, LINZ, data.gov.uk). Display relief, not survey data.
People
GHSL 2025 population grid, European Commission Joint Research Centre (CC BY 4.0), shown at 0.05° and summed per unit; WorldPop 2025 (CC BY 4.0) as a second estimate. Units smaller than a grid cell take the density of the cell under them.
Lande
Natural Earth (public domain).
Elevation
GEBCO Compilation Group (2024) GEBCO 2024 Grid (public domain), reduced to 0.05°: the share of each cell’s land at or below 10 m, weighted by GHSL 2025 people for the low coastal zone.
Position
Boundaries are shown for location only and take no position on any boundary, name or status.

Status

The methodology, structure and definitions of The Global Risks Index are a preparatory working draft (2026), circulated for review and comment and not for implementation. No value appears until an edition is released from a governed evidence cut; values then carry intervals, classes, sources and their correction pathway. Simulators run the published methods on numbers you choose and never show a NXS-GRX value.

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Wat NXS-GRX nie is nie

NXS-GRX is navorsings- en risiko-analise-inligting. Dit is nie 'n krediet- of ESG-gradering nie en gebruik geen graderingskaal nie, nie 'n maatstaf vir finansiële instrumente nie, nie amptelike statistiek nie, nie 'n noodwaarskuwing of amptelike klassifikasie nie, en nie advies nie. Dit mag nie gebruik word om natuurlike persone te evalueer nie. Risikoklasse is bande op 'n gepubliseerde skaal, nooit ranglyste van lande of mense nie.

Pulse-seine en vooruitskouwaarskynlikhede is inligting vir hersiening deur bevoegde owerhede, nooit openbare waarskuwings nie; amptelike waarskuwings kom slegs van gemandateerde owerhede.

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