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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.

பரப்பு

93,650 km²

107 people per km².

குறியீடு

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.

Unit குறியீடு People (GHSL) People (WorldPop) Area km² Per km² Share Coast ≤ 10 m
Absheron District AZE 686,712 643,593 1,912.18 359 6.9% 29,134
Agdam District AZE 211,868 31,721 1,044.59 203 2.1% 0
Agdash District AZE 115,900 107,995 1,173.67 99 1.2% 11,072
Aghjabadi District AZE 160,780 153,118 1,720.1 93 1.6% 20,808
Agstafa District AZE 113,216 109,197 1,528.19 74 1.1% 0
Agsu District AZE 86,776 85,096 1,031.95 84 0.9% 97
Astara District AZE 94,502 93,619 649.06 146 1% 1,700
Baku City AZE 2,072,012 2,752,084 2,112.99 981 20.9% 198,346
Balakan District AZE 105,811 92,716 965.41 110 1.1% 0
Barda District AZE 142,250 189,048 940.59 151 1.4% 3,420
Beylagan District AZE 89,543 101,860 1,051.25 85 0.9% 869
Bilasuvar District AZE 130,396 135,905 1,376.6 95 1.3% 28,068
Dashkasan District AZE 35,832 32,726 981.9 36 0.4% 0
Fuzuli District AZE 107,086 31,329 1,409.03 76 1.1% 0
Gadabay District AZE 101,118 90,024 1,276.9 79 1% 0
Ganja City AZE 254,724 197,474 38.52 6,613 2.6% 0
Gobustan District AZE 38,548 44,959 1,451.07 27 0.4% 0
Goranboy District AZE 116,549 121,586 1,804.31 65 1.2% 0
Goychay District AZE 121,456 124,920 701.15 173 1.2% 3,133
Goygol District AZE 144,619 187,101 1,011.05 143 1.5% 0
Hajigabul District AZE 56,823 77,410 1,883.9 30 0.6% 4,631
Imishli District AZE 139,200 160,718 1,914.11 73 1.4% 12,332
Ismailli District AZE 86,414 64,500 2,048.09 42 0.9% 0
Jabrayil District AZE 90,438 6,493 1,056.86 86 0.9% 0
Jalilabad District AZE 224,166 217,904 1,467.64 153 2.3% 38,853
Kalbajar District AZE 104,715 5,409 2,857.29 37 1.1% 0
Khachmaz District AZE 151,456 167,521 1,042.66 145 1.5% 10,568
Khankendi City AZE 16,638 29,989 29.3 568 0.2% 0
Khizi District AZE 14,489 18,083 1,792.21 8 0.1% 1,013
Khojaly District AZE 63,392 23,192 930.83 68 0.6% 0
Khojavend District AZE 56,084 4,356 1,466.58 38 0.6% 0
Kurdamir District AZE 117,668 107,939 1,676.44 70 1.2% 34,898
Lachin District AZE 95,365 3,859 1,785.65 53 1% 0
Lankaran City AZE 35,716 32,630 19.87 1,797 0.4% 0
Lankaran District AZE 1,507 2,245 541.83 3 0% 0
Lankaran District AZE 206,744 195,311 607.42 340 2.1% 7,386
Lerik District AZE 96,000 84,795 1,122.1 86 1% 0
Masally District AZE 241,348 224,146 779.86 309 2.4% 27,170
Mingachevir City AZE 63,322 46,157 43.73 1,448 0.6% 0
Naftalan City AZE 1,562 1,301 14.4 108 0% 0
Neftchala District AZE 97,135 84,241 1,642.64 59 1% 0
Oghuz District AZE 47,658 44,214 1,130.05 42 0.5% 0
Qabala District AZE 106,176 104,333 1,502.21 71 1.1% 0
Qakh District AZE 55,821 40,302 1,471.37 38 0.6% 0
Qazakh District AZE 75,669 66,482 682.39 111 0.8% 0
Quba District AZE 151,863 165,454 2,569.21 59 1.5% 0
Qubadli District AZE 40,231 1,132 853.09 47 0.4% 0
Qusar District AZE 144,298 102,756 1,547.51 93 1.5% 0
Saatly District AZE 117,157 106,099 1,102.91 106 1.2% 0
Sabirabad District AZE 177,616 180,139 1,431.84 124 1.8% 527
Salyan District AZE 201,854 188,433 1,875.89 108 2% 6,706
Samukh District AZE 88,035 103,255 1,192.34 74 0.9% 0
Shabran District AZE 59,422 60,242 1,120.46 53 0.6% 7,791
Shaki City AZE 40,033 27,890 27.58 1,452 0.4% 0
Shaki District AZE 149,273 149,936 2,302.23 65 1.5% 0
Shamakhi District AZE 115,029 97,934 1,309.61 88 1.2% 20
Shamkir District AZE 214,202 218,936 1,631.81 131 2.2% 0
Shirvan City AZE 29,730 24,814 30.95 961 0.3% 1,282
Shusha City AZE 262 10 11.6 23 0% 0
Shusha District AZE 24,964 509 296.3 84 0.3% 0
Siazan District AZE 43,570 41,232 695.44 63 0.4% 3,338
Sumqayit City AZE 259,922 272,497 82.16 3,164 2.6% 37,806
Tartar District AZE 120,460 101,440 1,257.01 96 1.2% 0
Tovuz District AZE 189,258 165,674 1,885.87 100 1.9% 0
Ujar District AZE 81,101 69,062 764.77 106 0.8% 25,803
Yardymli District AZE 66,509 61,794 677.43 98 0.7% 0
Yevlakh City AZE 17,910 17,910 23.54 761 0.2% 843
Yevlakh District AZE 146,286 186,727 1,275.47 115 1.5% 1,505
Zangilan District AZE 48,656 1,690 768.14 63 0.5% 0
Zaqatala District AZE 134,871 127,641 1,416.1 95 1.4% 0
Zardab District AZE 63,442 51,456 850.67 75 0.6% 977
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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
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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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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.
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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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