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Contiguous Azerbaijan

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

Map All 2 first-level units
Page GRX-AZE-REdition Baseline Edition 2026Evidence close 2026-09-30ISO AZE / AZStatus UN member stateValues not yet publishedMethod v1.0.0-draft
9,978,030
people (GHSL 2025)
93,650 km²
area
95.3%
of Azerbaijan
71
units inside
01Map

Inside Contiguous Azerbaijan

The 71 ADM2 units of Contiguous Azerbaijan.

FIG 1 · 71 units inside Contiguous Azerbaijan
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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.
02Figures

People, area and density

Source observations from open grids summed inside the boundary; not index values.

People · GHSL 2025

9,978,030

95.3% of Azerbaijan.

People · WorldPop 2025

9,921,479

-1% against GHSL; the two grids differ in method.

Area

93,650 km²

107 people per km².

Code

contiguous-azerbaijan

No subdivision code in the boundary source.

Low coastal zone

520,940

people on land at or below 10 m, 5.2% of the unit (GEBCO 2024 and GHSL 2025).

03Units

71 units inside Contiguous Azerbaijan

Each unit has its own page.

Boundary licences: Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0 · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported.

UnitCodePeople (GHSL)People (WorldPop)Area km²Per km²ShareCoast ≤ 10 m
Absheron DistrictAZE686,712643,5931,912.183596.9%29,134
Agdam DistrictAZE211,86831,7211,044.592032.1%0
Agdash DistrictAZE115,900107,9951,173.67991.2%11,072
Aghjabadi DistrictAZE160,780153,1181,720.1931.6%20,808
Agstafa DistrictAZE113,216109,1971,528.19741.1%0
Agsu DistrictAZE86,77685,0961,031.95840.9%97
Astara DistrictAZE94,50293,619649.061461%1,700
Baku CityAZE2,072,0122,752,0842,112.9998120.9%198,346
Balakan DistrictAZE105,81192,716965.411101.1%0
Barda DistrictAZE142,250189,048940.591511.4%3,420
Beylagan DistrictAZE89,543101,8601,051.25850.9%869
Bilasuvar DistrictAZE130,396135,9051,376.6951.3%28,068
Dashkasan DistrictAZE35,83232,726981.9360.4%0
Fuzuli DistrictAZE107,08631,3291,409.03761.1%0
Gadabay DistrictAZE101,11890,0241,276.9791%0
Ganja CityAZE254,724197,47438.526,6132.6%0
Gobustan DistrictAZE38,54844,9591,451.07270.4%0
Goranboy DistrictAZE116,549121,5861,804.31651.2%0
Goychay DistrictAZE121,456124,920701.151731.2%3,133
Goygol DistrictAZE144,619187,1011,011.051431.5%0
Hajigabul DistrictAZE56,82377,4101,883.9300.6%4,631
Imishli DistrictAZE139,200160,7181,914.11731.4%12,332
Ismailli DistrictAZE86,41464,5002,048.09420.9%0
Jabrayil DistrictAZE90,4386,4931,056.86860.9%0
Jalilabad DistrictAZE224,166217,9041,467.641532.3%38,853
Kalbajar DistrictAZE104,7155,4092,857.29371.1%0
Khachmaz DistrictAZE151,456167,5211,042.661451.5%10,568
Khankendi CityAZE16,63829,98929.35680.2%0
Khizi DistrictAZE14,48918,0831,792.2180.1%1,013
Khojaly DistrictAZE63,39223,192930.83680.6%0
Khojavend DistrictAZE56,0844,3561,466.58380.6%0
Kurdamir DistrictAZE117,668107,9391,676.44701.2%34,898
Lachin DistrictAZE95,3653,8591,785.65531%0
Lankaran CityAZE35,71632,63019.871,7970.4%0
Lankaran DistrictAZE1,5072,245541.8330%0
Lankaran DistrictAZE206,744195,311607.423402.1%7,386
Lerik DistrictAZE96,00084,7951,122.1861%0
Masally DistrictAZE241,348224,146779.863092.4%27,170
Mingachevir CityAZE63,32246,15743.731,4480.6%0
Naftalan CityAZE1,5621,30114.41080%0
Neftchala DistrictAZE97,13584,2411,642.64591%0
Oghuz DistrictAZE47,65844,2141,130.05420.5%0
Qabala DistrictAZE106,176104,3331,502.21711.1%0
Qakh DistrictAZE55,82140,3021,471.37380.6%0
Qazakh DistrictAZE75,66966,482682.391110.8%0
Quba DistrictAZE151,863165,4542,569.21591.5%0
Qubadli DistrictAZE40,2311,132853.09470.4%0
Qusar DistrictAZE144,298102,7561,547.51931.5%0
Saatly DistrictAZE117,157106,0991,102.911061.2%0
Sabirabad DistrictAZE177,616180,1391,431.841241.8%527
Salyan DistrictAZE201,854188,4331,875.891082%6,706
Samukh DistrictAZE88,035103,2551,192.34740.9%0
Shabran DistrictAZE59,42260,2421,120.46530.6%7,791
Shaki CityAZE40,03327,89027.581,4520.4%0
Shaki DistrictAZE149,273149,9362,302.23651.5%0
Shamakhi DistrictAZE115,02997,9341,309.61881.2%20
Shamkir DistrictAZE214,202218,9361,631.811312.2%0
Shirvan CityAZE29,73024,81430.959610.3%1,282
Shusha CityAZE2621011.6230%0
Shusha DistrictAZE24,964509296.3840.3%0
Siazan DistrictAZE43,57041,232695.44630.4%3,338
Sumqayit CityAZE259,922272,49782.163,1642.6%37,806
Tartar DistrictAZE120,460101,4401,257.01961.2%0
Tovuz DistrictAZE189,258165,6741,885.871001.9%0
Ujar DistrictAZE81,10169,062764.771060.8%25,803
Yardymli DistrictAZE66,50961,794677.43980.7%0
Yevlakh CityAZE17,91017,91023.547610.2%843
Yevlakh DistrictAZE146,286186,7271,275.471151.5%1,505
Zangilan DistrictAZE48,6561,690768.14630.5%0
Zaqatala DistrictAZE134,871127,6411,416.1951.4%0
Zardab DistrictAZE63,44251,456850.67750.6%977
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
1,075.7 H3 cells
Ports
None at this resolution
Airports
None at this resolution
Major roads
3,834.1 H3 cells
Railways
1,592.4 H3 cells
Rivers and lakes
681.5 H3 cells
05Risk

Risk values

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

Sources, credits and licences

ADM1 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen AZE ADM1, source: geoBoundaries, OpenStreetMap © OpenStreetMap contributors, licence: Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0 (share-alike: this boundary layer is offered under the same licence) · source · represents 2021. Offered under the same licence (Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0), kept as its own layer and not merged into other data.
ADM2 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen AZE ADM2, source: Wikipedia, licence: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (share-alike: this boundary layer is offered under the same licence) · source · represents 2020. Offered under the same licence (Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported), 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.
Countries
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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