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Wardak

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

Page GRX-AFG-REdition Baseline Edition 2026Evidence close 2026-09-30ISO AFG / AFHali UN member stateValues not yet publishedMethod v1.0.0-draft
909,844
people (GHSL 2025)
9,193 km²
area
2%
of Afghanistan
8
units inside

01Ramani

Inside Wardak

The 8 ADM2 units of Wardak.

FIG 1 · 8 units inside Wardak
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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.

Watu · GHSL 2025

909,844

2% of Afghanistan.

Watu · WorldPop 2025

782,647

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

Area

9,193 km²

99 people per km².

Code

AF-WAR

Subdivision code as carried by the boundary source.

03Units

8 units inside Wardak

Each unit has its own page.

Boundary licences: Public Domain

Unit Code People (GHSL) People (WorldPop) Area km² Per km² Share Coast ≤ 10 m
Chaki Wardak – 155,178 144,484 1,099.28 141 15.8% 0
Day Mirdad – 60,434 51,322 977.65 62 6.2% 0
Hisa-I- Awali Bihsud – 65,437 39,853 1,576.69 42 6.7% 0
Jalrez – 95,064 45,162 1,095.27 87 9.7% 0
Markazi Bihsud – 218,097 85,939 3,352.46 65 22.2% 0
Maydan Shahr – 76,856 105,356 246.21 312 7.8% 0
Nirkh – 107,849 108,825 535.03 202 11% 0
Saydabad – 201,975 236,641 1,125.5 179 20.6% 0
04Exposure

Open exposure layers

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

Urban areas
46.5 H3 cells
Bandari
None at this resolution
Viwanja vya ndege
None at this resolution
Major roads
429.1 H3 cells
Reli
None at this resolution
Rivers and lakes
84.8 H3 cells
05Hatari

Risk values

Values when released. Subnational risk values for Wardak publish with the edition from The Global Risks Index. Until then, run a scenario on open data for Afghanistan.
06Neighbours

Neighbouring units

07Vyanzo

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.
Nchi
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.

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