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Democratic Republic of the Congo: 26 provinces, states and territories

Every administrative level, from the 26 first-level units down to ADM2, on a terrain map with people, density and sources.

Page GRX-COD-REdition Baseline Edition 2026Evidence close 2026-09-30ISO COD / CDStatus UN member stateValues not yet publishedMethod v1.0.0-draft
26
first-level units
215
units at 2 levels
108,051,073
people (GHSL 2025)
Terrain
open relief

01Map

Democratic Republic of the Congo by province, state and territory

26 first-level units and 189 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 · 26 first-level units of Democratic Republic of the Congo
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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.
02Levels

Every administrative level of Democratic Republic of the Congo

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

ADM1
26 first-level units · geoBoundaries gbOpen · Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0 · each with its own page
ADM2
189 second-level units · geoBoundaries gbOpen · Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO) · each with its own page
03Units

All 26 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 Data Commons Open Database License 1.0 · Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO)

Unit कोड People (GHSL) People (WorldPop) Area km² Per km² Share Coast ≤ 10 m
Central Kasai CD-KC 6,704,350 4,248,823 57,716 116 6.2% 0
Équateur CD-EQ 2,167,929 2,174,242 105,086 21 2% 0
Haut-Katanga CD-HK 8,851,474 4,156,021 123,215 72 8.2% 0
Haut-Lomami CD-HL 7,947,390 2,395,355 109,845 72 7.4% 0
Ituri CD-IT 5,291,754 6,365,580 63,420 83 4.9% 0
Kasai CD-KS 5,750,540 3,618,322 96,538 60 5.3% 0
Kasai-Oriental CD-KE 4,825,102 2,954,887 10,176 474 4.5% 0
Kinshasa CD-KN 13,436,852 9,434,368 10,778 1,247 12.4% 0
Kongo-Central CD-BC 4,447,098 7,547,278 53,693 83 4.1% 27,533
Kwango CD-KG 1,833,139 2,900,796 89,682 20 1.7% 0
Kwilu CD-KL 3,528,993 8,663,573 80,016 44 3.3% 0
Lomami CD-LO 3,550,144 2,495,186 53,718 66 3.3% 0
Lower Uele CD-BU 1,262,230 2,084,942 149,098 8 1.2% 0
Lualaba CD-LU 4,039,184 3,005,357 123,187 33 3.7% 0
Mai-Ndombe CD-MN 1,384,988 2,874,053 127,216 11 1.3% 0
Maniema CD-MA 2,624,854 3,044,285 130,209 20 2.4% 0
Mongala CD-MO 1,923,535 2,570,732 56,342 34 1.8% 0
Nord-Ubangi CD-NU 1,302,647 1,867,992 54,289 24 1.2% 0
North Kivu CD-NK 8,032,569 8,541,960 58,608 137 7.4% 0
Sankuru CD-SA 187,725 4,022,673 106,294 2 0.2% 0
South Kivu CD-SK 4,843,022 7,508,563 60,811 80 4.5% 0
Sud-Ubangi CD-SU 2,560,697 3,854,572 53,531 48 2.4% 0
Tanganyika CD-TA 5,252,316 3,221,098 119,404 44 4.9% 0
Tshopo CD-TO 3,133,091 4,085,114 195,412 16 2.9% 0
Tshuapa CD-TU 1,407,357 2,621,527 138,780 10 1.3% 0
Upper Uele CD-HU 1,762,093 3,640,010 91,858 19 1.6% 0
04जोखीम

Subnational risk products

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

Sources, credits and licences

ADM1 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen COD ADM1, 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.
ADM2 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen COD ADM2, source: Referenciel Géographique Commun, OCHA DR Congo, licence: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO) · source · represents 2019
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.
देश
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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