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Khost

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
1,380,907
people (GHSL 2025)
4,252 km²
area
3.1%
of Afghanistan
13
units inside

01Map

Inside Khost

The 13 ADM2 units of Khost.

FIG 1 · 13 units inside Khost
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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

1,380,907

3.1% of Afghanistan.

People · WorldPop 2025

870,410

-37% against GHSL; the two grids differ in method.

Indawo

4,252 km²

325 people per km².

Ikhowudi

AF-KHO

Subdivision code as carried by the boundary source.

03Humanitarian data

Khost 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

46.3%

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

Rainfall · 2026-10-10

104%

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

04Units

13 units inside Khost

Each unit has its own page.

Boundary licences: Public Domain

Unit Ikhowudi People (GHSL) People (WorldPop) Area km² Per km² Share Coast ≤ 10 m
Bak – 50,262 33,408 171.04 294 3.6% 0
Gurbuz – 56,719 58,493 300.68 189 4.1% 0
Jaji Maidan – 56,932 41,910 327.89 174 4.1% 0
Khost(Matun) – 371,104 281,555 483.82 767 26.8% 0
Mando Zayi – 112,588 73,095 122.66 918 8.1% 0
Mosa Khail – 74,569 13,994 431.35 173 5.4% 0
Nadir Shah Kot – 100,780 41,439 331.28 304 7.3% 0
Qalandar – 23,709 3,110 157.83 150 1.7% 0
Sabri – 166,257 79,335 413.53 402 12% 0
Shamal – 31,613 8,040 173.22 183 2.3% 0
Spira – 56,055 20,596 494.5 113 4% 0
Tani – 163,232 111,083 490.41 333 11.8% 0
Tere Zayi – 122,036 103,148 396.01 308 8.8% 0
05Ukuchaphazeleka

Open exposure layers

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

Urban areas
None at this resolution
Ports
None at this resolution
Airports
None at this resolution
Major roads
None at this resolution
Railways
None at this resolution
Rivers and lakes
None at this resolution
06Umngcipheko

Risk values

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

Neighbouring units

08Imithombo

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.
Amazwe
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.