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Australia: 9 provinces, states and territories

Every administrative level, from the 9 first-level units down to ADM2, on a terrain map with people, density and sources.

Page GRX-AUS-REdition Baseline Edition 2026Evidence close 2026-09-30ISO AUS / AUStatus UN member stateValues not yet publishedMethod v1.0.0-draft
9
first-level units
556
units at 2 levels
25,622,142
people (GHSL 2025)
Terrain
open relief

01Map

Australia by province, state and territory

9 first-level units and 547 second-level units inside them, raised by people per km² over the population grid and terrain. Select a unit to drill in or open its page.

FIG 1 · 9 first-level units of Australia
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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. Select a unit to drill into the units inside it; the path above the map climbs back.
02Levels

Every administrative level of Australia

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

ADM1
9 first-level units · geoBoundaries gbOpen · Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) · each with its own page
ADM2
547 second-level units · geoBoundaries gbOpen · Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) · each with its own page
03Units

All 9 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: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Unit కోడ్ People (GHSL) People (WorldPop) Area km² Per km² Share Coast ≤ 10 m
Australian Capital Territory AU-ACT 409,267 522,318 2,358 174 1.6% 0
New South Wales AU-NSW 7,994,516 8,055,265 801,352 10 31.2% 760,067
Northern Territory AU-NT 228,971 207,436 1,352,148 0 0.9% 23,605
Other Territories – 5,866 4,113 257 23 0% 118
Queensland AU-QLD 5,238,719 5,178,227 1,734,447 3 20.4% 1,002,782
South Australia AU-SA 1,743,259 1,707,001 985,339 2 6.8% 149,378
Tasmania AU-TAS 484,562 483,406 67,927 7 1.9% 27,353
Victoria AU-VIC 6,932,954 6,858,617 227,444 30 27.1% 324,236
Western Australia AU-WA 2,584,028 2,562,759 2,531,593 1 10.1% 330,525
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Subnational risk products

Values when released. Subnational risk values for Australia 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 AUS ADM1, source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) · source · represents 2021
ADM2 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen AUS ADM2, source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) · source · represents 2022
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.
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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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