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West

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

Page GRX-CMR-REdition Baseline Edition 2026Evidence close 2026-09-30ISO CMR / CMStatus UN member stateValues not yet publishedMethod v1.0.0-draft
2,074,625
people (GHSL 2025)
14,055 km²
area
6.9%
of Cameroon
8
units inside

01Map

Inside West

The 8 ADM2 units of West.

FIG 1 · 8 units inside West
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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.

People · GHSL 2025

2,074,625

6.9% of Cameroon.

People · WorldPop 2025

2,162,830

+4% against GHSL; the two grids differ in method.

વિસ્તાર

14,055 km²

148 people per km².

કોડ

CM-OU

Subdivision code as carried by the boundary source.

03Humanitarian data

West in humanitarian data

Source observations from the Humanitarian Data Exchange, matched to this unit by name, each with its reference date, provider and licence. They are not index values.

Population · 2025-12-31

2,232,838

people. UNFPA · Creative Commons Attribution International (CC BY).

Poverty headcount · 2018-12-31

23.4%

of people in multidimensional poverty. Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative · Public Domain / No restrictions (CC0).

People in need · 2025-12-08

2,312,082

humanitarian need. OCHA Humanitarian Programme Cycle Tools (HPC Tools) · Creative Commons Attribution for Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY-IGO).

04Units

8 units inside West

Each unit has its own page.

Boundary licences: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License · Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Unit કોડ People (GHSL) People (WorldPop) Area km² Per km² Share Coast ≤ 10 m
Bamboutos – 359,212 372,335 1,156.37 311 17.4% 0
Haut-Nkam – 152,087 162,949 1,115.43 136 7.4% 0
Hauts-Plateaux – 157,914 226,764 353.79 446 7.7% 0
Koung-Khi – 70,485 194,836 477.83 148 3.4% 0
Menoua – 339,978 367,661 1,320.61 257 16.5% 0
Mifi – 305,965 128,788 336.21 910 14.8% 0
Nde – 110,827 119,756 1,417.16 78 5.4% 0
Noun – 564,984 562,698 7,834.41 72 27.4% 0
05સંપર્કમાં આવવું

Open exposure layers

Count of H3 resolution-3 cells whose centre falls in the unit and that carry each Natural Earth layer.

Urban areas
102.4 H3 cells
Ports
None at this resolution
Airports
None at this resolution
Major roads
399.3 H3 cells
Railways
1.1 H3 cells
Rivers and lakes
None at this resolution
06જોખમ

Risk values

Values when released. Subnational risk values for West publish with the edition from The Global Risks Index. Until then, run a scenario on open data for Cameroon.
07Neighbours

Neighbouring units

08સ્ત્રોતો

Sources, credits and licences

ADM1 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen CMR ADM1, source: geoBoundaries, Wikimedia, licence: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License · source · represents 2016
ADM2 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen CMR ADM2, source: Open Africa, licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) · source · represents 2016
ADM3 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen CMR ADM3, source: OpenStreetMap, Wambacher © 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.
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.