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North Karelia

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

Page GRX-FIN-REdition Baseline Edition 2026Evidence close 2026-09-30ISO FIN / FIStatus UN member stateValues not yet publishedMethod v1.0.0-draft
160,167
people (GHSL 2025)
21,458 km²
area
3%
of Finland
3
units inside
01Map

Inside North Karelia

The 3 ADM2 units of North Karelia.

FIG 1 · 3 units inside North Karelia
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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

160,167

3% of Finland.

People · WorldPop 2025

156,865

-2% against GHSL; the two grids differ in method.

Area

21,458 km²

7 people per km².

Code

FI-13

Subdivision code as carried by the boundary source.

03Units

3 units inside North Karelia

Each unit has its own page.

Boundary licences: Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0.

UnitCodePeople (GHSL)People (WorldPop)Area km²Per km²ShareCoast ≤ 10 m
Joensuun seutukunta–121,382124,35511,437.821175.8%0
Keski-Karjalan seutukunta–17,35514,7843,299.98510.8%0
Pielisen Karjalan seutukunta–21,43117,7266,719.72313.4%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
51.4 H3 cells
Ports
1 H3 cells
Airports
None at this resolution
Major roads
931.4 H3 cells
Railways
461.7 H3 cells
Rivers and lakes
None at this resolution
05Risk

Risk values

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

Neighbouring units

07Sources

Sources, credits and licences

ADM1 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen FIN 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 FIN 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 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.
ADM3 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen FIN ADM3, 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.
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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