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Canada: 13 provinces, states and territories

Every administrative level, from the 13 first-level units down to ADM3, on a terrain map with people, density and sources.

Page GRX-CAN-REdition Baseline Edition 2026Evidence close 2026-09-30ISO CAN / CAStatus UN member stateValues not yet publishedMethod v1.0.0-draft
13
first-level units
5,251
units at 3 levels
37,644,537
people (GHSL 2025)
Terrain
open relief

01Map

Canada by province, state and territory

13 first-level units and 76 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 · 13 first-level units of Canada
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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 Canada

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

ADM1
13 first-level units · geoBoundaries gbOpen · Open Government Canada 2.0 · each with its own page
ADM2
76 second-level units · geoBoundaries gbOpen · Open Government Canada 2.0 · each with its own page
ADM3
5,162 third-level units · geoBoundaries gbOpen · Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0 · in the maps, tables and downloads of the pages above
03Units

All 13 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: Open Government Canada 2.0

Unit કોડ People (GHSL) People (WorldPop) Area km² Per km² Share Coast ≤ 10 m
Alberta CA-AB 5,019,700 4,564,773 660,267 8 13.3% 0
British Columbia CA-BC 4,847,121 5,074,425 943,529 5 12.9% 579,974
Manitoba CA-MB 1,432,575 1,451,338 646,901 2 3.8% 77
New Brunswick CA-NB 767,117 778,209 72,528 11 2% 94,723
Newfoundland and Labrador CA-NL 444,309 418,774 404,999 1 1.2% 13,035
Northwest Territories CA-NT 40,882 37,549 1,339,806 0 0.1% 863
Nova Scotia CA-NS 876,002 940,737 55,256 16 2.3% 75,306
Nunavut CA-NU 24,131 24,091 2,077,280 0 0.1% 3,392
Ontario CA-ON 14,091,005 14,765,040 982,257 14 37.4% 184,910
Prince Edward Island CA-PE 123,882 139,221 5,724 22 0.3% 25,599
Quebec CA-QB 8,630,730 8,783,900 1,502,574 6 22.9% 868,132
Saskatchewan CA-SK 1,300,857 1,177,966 649,393 2 3.5% 0
Yukon CA-YT 46,226 45,710 480,842 0 0.1% 0
04જોખમ

Subnational risk products

Values when released. Subnational risk values for Canada publish with the edition from The Global Risks Index, with intervals and sources. Until then these pages show boundaries, people and exposure only.
05સ્ત્રોતો

Sources, credits and licences

ADM1 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen CAN ADM1, source: Statistics Canada (StatCan), licence: Open Government Canada 2.0 · source · represents 2023
ADM2 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen CAN ADM2, source: Statistics Canada (StatCan), licence: Open Government Canada 2.0 · source · represents 2022
ADM3 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen CAN ADM3, source: Statistics Canada (StatCan) © OpenStreetMap contributors, licence: Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0 (share-alike: this boundary layer is offered under the same licence) · source · represents 2016. 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.
દેશો
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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