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Ecuador: 24 provinces, states and territories

Every administrative level, from the 24 first-level units down to ADM2, on a terrain map with people, density and sources.

Map All units Country map
Page GRX-ECU-REdition Baseline Edition 2026Evidence close 2026-09-30ISO ECU / ECStatus UN member stateValues not yet publishedMethod v1.0.0-draft
24
first-level units
248
units at 2 levels
17,901,716
people (GHSL 2025)
Terrain
open relief

01Map

Ecuador by province, state and territory

24 first-level units and 224 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 · 24 first-level units of Ecuador
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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 Ecuador

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

ADM1
24 first-level units · geoBoundaries gbOpen · CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication · each with its own page
ADM2
224 second-level units · geoBoundaries gbOpen · Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO) · each with its own page
03Units

All 24 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: CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication · 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
Azuay EC-A 913,729 833,710 8,067 113 5.1% 0
Bolívar EC-B 211,518 214,274 3,932 54 1.2% 0
Cañar EC-F 250,566 234,147 3,251 77 1.4% 0
Carchi EC-C 202,760 207,743 3,740 54 1.1% 0
Chimborazo EC-H 535,011 481,808 6,501 82 3% 0
Cotopaxi EC-H 490,927 491,731 6,043 81 2.7% 0
El Oro EC-O 705,691 785,815 5,818 121 3.9% 321,331
Esmeraldas EC-E 649,312 536,963 15,529 42 3.6% 60,063
Galápagos EC-W 26,845 21,759 7,687 3 0.1% 915
Guayas EC-G 4,334,305 4,416,337 15,722 276 24.2% 1,806,174
Imbabura EC-I 476,032 504,752 4,809 99 2.7% 0
Loja EC-L 505,141 504,766 11,039 46 2.8% 0
Los Ríos EC-R 962,563 940,745 7,240 133 5.4% 228,201
Manabi EC-M 1,540,452 1,613,240 19,454 79 8.6% 39,822
Morona Santiago EC-S 214,714 217,881 24,120 9 1.2% 0
Napo EC-N 198,961 144,425 12,713 16 1.1% 0
Orellana EC-D* 266,510 206,691 21,585 12 1.5% 0
Pastaza EC-Y 120,061 118,273 30,064 4 0.7% 0
Pichincha EC-P 3,379,536 3,355,520 9,676 349 18.9% 0
Santa Elena EC-SE* 367,218 366,430 3,829 96 2.1% 71,949
Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas EC-SD* 558,322 552,786 4,137 135 3.1% 0
Sucumbios EC-U 273,073 210,382 18,253 15 1.5% 0
Tungurahua EC-T 603,197 607,103 3,405 177 3.4% 0
Zamora Chinchipe EC-Z 115,272 119,952 10,474 11 0.6% 0
04जोखीम

Subnational risk products

Values when released. Subnational risk values for Ecuador 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 ECU ADM1, source: geoBoundaries, Wikimedia Commons, licence: CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication · source · represents 2011
ADM2 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen ECU ADM2, source: INEC – Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos, OCHA ROLAC, 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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