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Saare maakond

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

Page GRX-EST-REdition Baseline Edition 2026Evidence close 2026-09-30ISO EST / EEStatus UN member stateValues not yet publishedMethod v1.0.0-draft
34,367
people (GHSL 2025)
2,917 km²
area
2.8%
of Estonia
16
units inside

01Imephu

Inside Saare maakond

The 16 ADM2 units of Saare maakond.

FIG 1 · 16 units inside Saare maakond
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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.

Abantu · GHSL 2025

34,367

2.8% of Estonia.

Abantu · WorldPop 2025

26,052

-24% against GHSL; the two grids differ in method.

Area

2,917 km²

12 people per km².

Code

EE-74

Subdivision code as carried by the boundary source.

Indawo esogwini ephansi

19,997

people on land at or below 10 m, 58.2% of the unit (GEBCO 2024 and GHSL 2025).

03Units

16 units inside Saare maakond

Each unit has its own page.

Boundary licences: Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0.

Unit Code People (GHSL) People (WorldPop) Area km² Per km² Share Coast ≤ 10 m
K – 1,901 1,125 215.3 9 5% 471
Kaarma vald – 21,261 13,953 391.95 54 56.4% 16,557
Kihelkonna vald – 789 770 246.5 3 2.1% 230
Kuressaare – 3,328 2,776 15.52 214 8.8% 0
Laane-Saare – 722 637 198.54 4 1.9% 182
Laimjala vald – 705 736 116.59 6 1.9% 256
Leisi vald – 1,932 1,820 347.83 6 5.1% 360
Muhu vald – 1,436 1,639 207.85 7 3.8% 326
Mustjala vald – 609 554 234.63 3 1.6% 64
Orissaare vald – 796 618 162.61 5 2.1% 89
Pihtla vald – 1,330 1,459 227.73 6 3.5% 260
Poide – 708 545 128.33 6 1.9% 588
Ruhnu vald – 3 8 11.88 0 0% 0
Salme vald – 699 605 115.29 6 1.9% 390
Torgu vald – 223 215 126.39 2 0.6% 30
Valjala vald – 1,256 1,375 179.45 7 3.3% 177
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
None at this resolution
Amachweba
None at this resolution
Izikhumulo zezindiza
None at this resolution
Major roads
None at this resolution
Ojantshi
None at this resolution
Rivers and lakes
None at this resolution
05Ubungozi

Risk values

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

Neighbouring units

07Imithombo

Sources, credits and licences

ADM1 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen EST 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 2016. 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 EST ADM2, 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.
ADM3 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen EST ADM3, source: OpenStreetMap, OSM Boundaries © OpenStreetMap contributors, licence: Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0 (share-alike: this boundary layer is offered under the same licence) · source · represents 2020. 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.
Amazwe
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.