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NXS-GRX-CHN · Eastern Asia · Regions

China: 34 provinces, states and territories

Every administrative level, from the 34 first-level units down to ADM3, on a terrain map with people, density and sources.

Map All units Country map
Page GRX-CHN-REdition Baseline Edition 2026Evidence close 2026-09-30ISO CHN / CNStatus UN member stateValues not yet publishedMethod v1.0.0-draft
34
first-level units
5,288
units at 3 levels
1,435,501,884
people (GHSL 2025)
Terrain
open relief

01Map

China by province, state and territory

34 first-level units, raised by people per km² over the population grid and terrain. Select a unit to drill in or open its page.

FIG 1 · 34 first-level units of China
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Units rise with people per km² · GHSL 2025 raster · terrain · ADM1Risk 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.
02Levels

Every administrative level of China

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

ADM1
34 first-level units · geoBoundaries gbOpen · Public Domain · each with its own page
ADM2
2,390 second-level units · geoBoundaries gbOpen · Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and License (PDDL) v1.0 · each with its own page
ADM3
2,864 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 34 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: Public Domain

Unit குறியீடு People (GHSL) People (WorldPop) Area km² Per km² Share Coast ≤ 10 m
Anhui Province CHN 62,077,654 60,603,084 139,309 446 4.3% 6,014,113
Beijing Municipality CHN 23,828,351 22,557,034 16,296 1,462 1.7% 0
Chongqing Municipality CHN 31,871,228 32,214,446 80,281 397 2.2% 0
Fujian Province CHN 34,931,201 40,429,324 121,394 288 2.4% 6,291,014
Gansu Province CHN 24,681,280 23,719,091 422,125 58 1.7% 0
Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region CHN 46,778,625 49,892,640 240,625 194 3.3% 267,302
Guangzhou Province CHN 114,463,701 128,531,102 180,429 634 8% 32,623,747
Guizhou Province CHN 34,533,275 41,195,929 177,883 194 2.4% 0
Hainan Province CHN 9,337,380 10,169,101 35,412 264 0.7% 1,608,084
Hebei Province CHN 75,217,035 72,227,864 185,925 405 5.2% 9,123,074
Heilongjiang Province CHN 38,386,233 25,492,903 444,565 86 2.7% 0
Henan Province CHN 101,324,451 103,702,149 166,287 609 7.1% 0
Hong Kong Special Administrative Region CHN 7,621,933 7,334,308 1,166 6,537 0.5% 806,613
Hubei Province CHN 55,282,054 56,050,184 186,897 296 3.9% 56,144
Hunan Province CHN 68,662,017 64,898,042 212,956 322 4.8% 0
Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region CHN 25,584,079 22,748,496 1,131,839 23 1.8% 0
Jiangsu Province CHN 90,924,562 84,013,501 97,863 929 6.3% 61,884,501
Jiangxi Province CHN 50,417,393 44,885,241 168,714 299 3.5% 117,524
Jilin Province CHN 26,574,734 20,409,944 191,220 139 1.9% 610
Liaoning Province CHN 44,404,512 38,319,691 149,017 298 3.1% 5,365,694
Macau Special Administrative Region CHN 564,221 641,513 96 5,877 0% 69,822
Ningxia Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region CHN 7,278,755 7,577,560 53,249 137 0.5% 0
Qinghai Province CHN 6,732,096 6,206,169 701,846 10 0.5% 0
Shaanxi Province CHN 38,620,262 39,809,624 202,991 190 2.7% 0
Shandong Province CHN 91,168,514 95,443,358 151,120 603 6.4% 8,256,525
Shanghai Municipality CHN 31,671,751 23,858,665 6,227 5,086 2.2% 29,124,832
Shanxi Province CHN 39,279,810 32,875,157 156,960 250 2.7% 0
Sichuan Province CHN 75,778,973 83,336,518 483,983 157 5.3% 0
Taiwan Province CHN 23,407,678 22,709,101 36,384 643 1.6% 4,047,240
Tianjin Municipality CHN 15,995,432 13,843,930 11,766 1,359 1.1% 14,465,572
Tibet Autonomous Region CHN 4,432,284 5,066,015 1,217,682 4 0.3% 0
Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region CHN 26,198,372 28,062,185 1,622,737 16 1.8% 21,651
Yunnan Province CHN 48,077,039 46,492,187 391,882 123 3.3% 0
Zhejiang Province CHN 59,394,999 68,976,510 100,438 591 4.1% 27,405,896
04இடர்

Subnational risk products

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

ADM1 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen CHN ADM1, source: geoBoundaries, Wikimedia Commons, licence: Public Domain · source · represents 2019
ADM2 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen CHN ADM2, source: National Administration of Surveying, Mapping and Geoinformation of China, Revolutionary GIS, licence: Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and License (PDDL) v1.0 · source · represents 2017
ADM3 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen CHN ADM3, source: Lee Beryman, 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 2017. 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.
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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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