NXS-GRX-DNK · Northern Europe · Regions

Syddanmark

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

Page GRX-DNK-REdition Baseline Edition 2026Evidence close 2026-09-30ISO DNK / DKStatus UN member stateValues not yet publishedMethod v1.0.0-draft
1,140,062
people (GHSL 2025)
11,801 km²
area
20.5%
of Denmark
23
units inside
01Map

Inside Syddanmark

The 23 ADM2 units of Syddanmark.

FIG 1 · 23 units inside Syddanmark
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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

1,140,062

20.5% of Denmark.

People · WorldPop 2025

1,124,876

-1% against GHSL; the two grids differ in method.

Area

11,801 km²

97 people per km².

Code

DK-83

Subdivision code as carried by the boundary source.

Low coastal zone

192,001

people on land at or below 10 m, 16.8% of the unit (GEBCO 2024 and GHSL 2025).

03Units

23 units inside Syddanmark

Each unit has its own page.

Boundary licences: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) · Public Domain.

UnitCodePeople (GHSL)People (WorldPop)Area km²Per km²ShareCoast ≤ 10 m
Aabenraa–63,66763,981972.19655.3%3,463
Ærø–1,8851,72592.45200.2%185
Assens–36,94835,088509.66723.1%1,521
Billund–25,75726,522546.58472.1%1
Esbjerg–102,41699,687777.921328.5%39,379
Faaborg-Midtfyn–54,57953,108669.25824.5%2,212
Fanø–72364762.09120.1%519
Fredericia–54,07453,862137.083944.5%5,805
Haderslev–58,98258,121887.9664.9%3,175
Kerteminde–21,56222,043222.53971.8%7,317
Kolding–98,25596,413616.821598.2%7,450
Langeland–10,84711,319315.61340.9%4,760
Middelfart–29,05529,148259.071122.4%3,249
Nordfyn–27,94026,496450.71622.3%7,358
Nyborg–28,27528,592270.311052.4%5,763
Odense–214,742210,036307.569817.8%50,585
Samsø–2,9443,066128.64230.2%647
Sønderborg–67,56566,980539.81255.6%15,194
Svendborg–51,85152,1364271214.3%4,324
Tønder–33,18832,1811,130.21292.8%16,365
Varde–51,72448,8521,251.44414.3%12,614
Vejen–46,99343,270821.21573.9%86
Vejle–119,075126,8311,091.561099.9%9,949
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
238.4 H3 cells
Ports
5 H3 cells
Airports
None at this resolution
Major roads
814.6 H3 cells
Railways
621.4 H3 cells
Rivers and lakes
None at this resolution
05Risk

Risk values

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

Neighbouring units

07Sources

Sources, credits and licences

ADM1 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen DNK ADM1, source: geoBoundaries, Web Vectors Map, licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) · source · represents 2021
ADM2 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen DNK ADM2, source: geoBoundaries, Wikimedia Commons, licence: Public Domain · source · represents 2018
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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