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Herat

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 / AFStatus UN member stateValues not yet publishedMethod v1.0.0-draft
3,769,203
people (GHSL 2025)
53,845 km²
area
8.5%
of Afghanistan
16
units inside

01Map

Inside Herat

The 16 ADM2 units of Herat.

FIG 1 · 16 units inside Herat
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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.

People · GHSL 2025

3,769,203

8.5% of Afghanistan.

People · WorldPop 2025

2,900,596

-23% against GHSL; the two grids differ in method.

ప్రాంతం

53,845 km²

70 people per km².

కోడ్

AF-HER

Subdivision code as carried by the boundary source.

03Units

16 units inside Herat

Each unit has its own page.

Boundary licences: Public Domain

Unit కోడ్ People (GHSL) People (WorldPop) Area km² Per km² Share Coast ≤ 10 m
Adraskan – 108,331 64,945 9,976.46 11 2.9% 0
Chishti Sharif – 48,204 55,898 2,563.83 19 1.3% 0
Farsi – 61,449 33,397 1,997.74 31 1.6% 0
Ghoryan – 180,870 174,508 7,296.97 25 4.8% 0
Gulran – 158,040 78,699 6,014.71 26 4.2% 0
Guzara – 290,891 337,071 2,589.87 112 7.7% 0
Hirat – 1,057,427 771,224 1,244.23 850 27.9% 0
Injil – 543,477 370,885 188.77 2,879 14.3% 0
Karukh – 130,626 95,883 2,000 65 3.4% 0
Kohsan – 95,181 94,652 2,206.99 43 2.5% 0
Koshk – 206,313 120,300 2,885.75 71 5.4% 0
Koshki Kohna – 86,078 29,633 1,658.31 52 2.3% 0
Obe – 155,851 118,453 2,618.95 60 4.1% 0
Pashtun Zarghun – 196,423 153,229 1,893.41 104 5.2% 0
Shindand – 363,176 310,939 6,705.98 54 9.6% 0
Zanda Jan
– 109,529 103,129 2,490.12 44 2.9% 0
04బహిర్గతం

Open exposure layers

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

Urban areas
114.7 H3 cells
Ports
None at this resolution
Airports
None at this resolution
Major roads
1,042.2 H3 cells
Railways
44.2 H3 cells
Rivers and lakes
343.5 H3 cells
05ప్రమాదం

Risk values

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

Neighbouring units

07మూలాలు

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.
దేశాలు
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.