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Baden-Württemberg

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

Page GRX-DEU-REdition Baseline Edition 2026Evidence close 2026-09-30ISO DEU / DEStatus UN member stateValues not yet publishedMethod v1.0.0-draft
10,888,041
people (GHSL 2025)
35,643 km²
area
13.1%
of Germany
4
units inside
01Map

Inside Baden-Württemberg

The 4 ADM2 units of Baden-Württemberg.

FIG 1 · 4 units inside Baden-Württemberg
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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.

People · GHSL 2025

10,888,041

13.1% of Germany.

People · WorldPop 2025

11,360,127

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

Area

35,643 km²

305 people per km².

Code

DE-BW

Subdivision code as carried by the boundary source.

03Units

4 units inside Baden-Württemberg

Each unit has its own page.

Boundary licences: Data license Germany – Attribution – Version 2.0.

UnitCodePeople (GHSL)People (WorldPop)Area km²Per km²ShareCoast ≤ 10 m
Freiburg–2,217,2182,302,4349,331.9323820.4%0
Karlsruhe–2,845,3342,895,1266,897.2541326.1%0
Stuttgart–4,073,2784,302,91610,523.238737.4%0
Tübingen–1,752,9271,861,3698,891.0219716.1%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
2,317.5 H3 cells
Ports
None at this resolution
Airports
1 H3 cells
Major roads
1,307.8 H3 cells
Railways
1,837.7 H3 cells
Rivers and lakes
204.6 H3 cells
05Risk

Risk values

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

Neighbouring units

07Sources

Sources, credits and licences

ADM1 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen DEU ADM1, source: Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy, licence: Data license Germany – Attribution – Version 2.0 · source · represents 2021
ADM2 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen DEU ADM2, source: Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy, licence: Data license Germany – Attribution – Version 2.0 · source · represents 2021
ADM3 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen DEU ADM3, source: Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy, licence: Data license Germany – Attribution – Version 2.0 · source · represents 2021
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.
Countries
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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