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Vitebsk

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

Page GRX-BLR-REdition Baseline Edition 2026Evidence close 2026-09-30ISO BLR / BYStatus UN member stateValues not yet publishedMethod v1.0.0-draft
1,200,357
people (GHSL 2025)
40,171 km²
area
12.7%
of Belarus
21
units inside

01Imephu

Inside Vitebsk

The 21 ADM2 units of Vitebsk.

FIG 1 · 21 units inside Vitebsk
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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.

Abantu · GHSL 2025

1,200,357

12.7% of Belarus.

Abantu · WorldPop 2025

1,053,693

-12% against GHSL; the two grids differ in method.

Area

40,171 km²

30 people per km².

Code

BY-VI

Subdivision code as carried by the boundary source.

03Units

21 units inside Vitebsk

Each unit has its own page.

Boundary licences: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License

Unit Code People (GHSL) People (WorldPop) Area km² Per km² Share Coast ≤ 10 m
Beshankovichy – 14,068 12,029 1,218.33 12 1.2% 0
Braslaw – 22,788 22,447 2,284.82 10 1.9% 0
Chashniki – 27,218 25,618 1,460.17 19 2.3% 0
Dokshytsy – 20,611 19,832 2,245.54 9 1.7% 0
Dubrowna – 13,525 13,800 1,230.45 11 1.1% 0
Haradok – 20,309 20,354 3,034.55 7 1.7% 0
Hlybokaye – 31,701 31,714 1,755.72 18 2.6% 0
Liozna – 13,341 14,227 1,371.86 10 1.1% 0
Lyepyel – 27,260 29,331 1,871.91 15 2.3% 0
Miory – 17,140 14,888 1,789.29 10 1.4% 0
Orsha – 128,505 135,544 1,725.31 74 10.7% 0
Pastavy – 30,755 31,255 2,138.66 14 2.6% 0
Polotsk – 265,006 190,400 3,229.77 82 22.1% 0
Rasony – 8,504 7,922 1,940.78 4 0.7% 0
Sharkawshchyna – 13,938 12,169 1,193.31 12 1.2% 0
Shumilina – 14,997 15,690 1,757.36 9 1.2% 0
Syanno – 20,151 17,845 1,955.06 10 1.7% 0
Talachyn – 21,099 21,054 1,496.74 14 1.8% 0
Ushachy – 11,174 10,253 1,477.33 8 0.9% 0
Verkhnyadzvinsk – 20,174 19,426 2,191.96 9 1.7% 0
Vitebsk – 458,093 387,894 2,802.35 163 38.2% 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
183.2 H3 cells
Amachweba
None at this resolution
Izikhumulo zezindiza
None at this resolution
Major roads
1,229.4 H3 cells
Ojantshi
1,189.9 H3 cells
Rivers and lakes
402.9 H3 cells
05Ubungozi

Risk values

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

Neighbouring units

07Imithombo

Sources, credits and licences

ADM1 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen BLR ADM1, source: geoBoundaries, CIESIN, licence: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License · source · represents 2005
ADM2 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen BLR ADM2, source: geoBoundaries, CIESIN, licence: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License · source · represents 2005
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.
Amazwe
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.