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United Arab Emirates: 7 provinces, states and territories

Every administrative level, from the 7 first-level units, on a terrain map with people, density and sources.

Page GRX-ARE-REdition Baseline Edition 2026Evidence close 2026-09-30ISO ARE / AEStatus UN member stateValues not yet publishedMethod v1.0.0-draft
7
first-level units
7
units at 1 level
8,935,296
people (GHSL 2025)
Terrain
open relief

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United Arab Emirates by province, state and territory

7 first-level units, raised by people per km² over the population grid and terrain. Select a unit to drill in or open its page.

FIG 1 · 7 first-level units of United Arab Emirates
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Units rise with people per km² · GHSL 2025 raster · terrain · ADM1Risk 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.
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Every administrative level of United Arab Emirates

Each level comes from the boundary source admitted for that country and level, with its own licence.

ADM1
7 first-level units · geoBoundaries gbOpen · Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0 · each with its own page
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All 7 first-level units

Two population estimates from open grids, summed inside each boundary. The CSV carries the first two levels; each unit page carries the levels below it.

Boundary licences: Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0.

Unit Code People (GHSL) People (WorldPop) Area km² Per km² Share Coast ≤ 10 m
Abu Dhabi AE-AZ 3,148,460 3,637,537 59,598 53 35.2% 735,589
Ajman AE-AJ 472,365 594,377 248 1,905 5.3% 263,094
Dubai AE-DU 2,929,311 3,408,836 3,972 737 32.8% 1,455,395
Fujairah AE-FU 196,482 287,861 1,680 117 2.2% 12,051
Ras al-Khaimah AE-RK 413,975 570,583 2,489 166 4.6% 88,534
Sharjah AE-SH 1,690,309 1,879,560 2,400 704 18.9% 462,568
Umm al-Quwain AE-UQ 84,394 164,466 738 114 0.9% 22,852
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Subnational risk products

Values when released. Subnational risk values for United Arab Emirates publish with the edition from The Global Risks Index, with intervals and sources. Until then these pages show boundaries, people and exposure only.
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Sources, credits and licences

ADM1 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen ARE ADM1, source: OpenStreetMap, Wambacher © OpenStreetMap contributors, licence: Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0 (share-alike: this boundary layer is offered under the same licence) · source · represents 2017. Offered under the same licence (Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0), kept as its own layer and not merged into other data.
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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