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Kouffo

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

Page GRX-BEN-REdition Baseline Edition 2026Evidence close 2026-09-30ISO BEN / BJStatus UN member stateValues not yet publishedMethod v1.0.0-draft
903,040
people (GHSL 2025)
2,362 km²
area
6.3%
of Benin
5
units inside

01Kaart

Inside Kouffo

The 5 ADM2 units of Kouffo.

FIG 1 · 5 units inside Kouffo
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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.

Mense · GHSL 2025

903,040

6.3% of Benin.

Mense · WorldPop 2025

624,667

-31% against GHSL; the two grids differ in method.

Area

2,362 km²

382 people per km².

Code

kouffo

No subdivision code in the boundary source.

Laagliggende kussone

2,447

people on land at or below 10 m, 0.3% of the unit (GEBCO 2024 and GHSL 2025).

03Units

5 units inside Kouffo

Each unit has its own page.

Boundary licences: Public Domain

Unit Code People (GHSL) People (WorldPop) Area km² Per km² Share Coast ≤ 10 m
Aplahoue – 180,450 144,924 912.75 198 22.4% 0
Djakotomey – 203,312 112,245 227.59 893 25.2% 0
Klouekanme – 129,819 126,841 383.79 338 16.1% 0
Lalo – 176,921 105,461 457.03 387 21.9% 260
Toviklin – 116,276 63,590 129.54 898 14.4% 0
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
None at this resolution
Hawens
None at this resolution
Lughawens
None at this resolution
Major roads
None at this resolution
Spoorweë
None at this resolution
Rivers and lakes
None at this resolution
05Risiko

Risk values

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

Neighbouring units

07Bronne

Sources, credits and licences

ADM1 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen BEN ADM1, source: geoBoundaries, Wikimedia Commons, licence: Public Domain · source · represents 2012
ADM2 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen BEN ADM2, source: Map Maker Ltd., Stanford earthworks, licence: Public Domain · source · represents 2007
ADM3 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen BEN ADM3, source: uMap, Open Street Map © 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.
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.
Lande
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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