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Wales

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

Page GRX-GBR-REdition Baseline Edition 2026Evidence close 2026-09-30ISO GBR / GBStatus UN member stateValues not yet publishedMethod v1.0.0-draft
2,997,673
people (GHSL 2025)
20,762 km²
area
4.5%
of United Kingdom
22
units inside

01Map

Inside Wales

The 22 ADM2 units of Wales.

FIG 1 · 22 units inside Wales
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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

2,997,673

4.5% of United Kingdom.

People · WorldPop 2025

2,965,178

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

ప్రాంతం

20,762 km²

144 people per km².

కోడ్

GB-WLS

Subdivision code as carried by the boundary source.

Low coastal zone

247,761

people on land at or below 10 m, 8.3% of the unit (GEBCO 2024 and GHSL 2025).

03Units

22 units inside Wales

Each unit has its own page.

Boundary licences: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) · Open Government Licence v3.0.

Unit కోడ్ People (GHSL) People (WorldPop) Area km² Per km² Share Coast ≤ 10 m
Blaenau Gwent – 63,423 61,602 108.92 582 2.1% 0
Bridgend – 129,427 139,579 249.08 520 4.3% 2,294
Caerphilly – 179,943 173,602 276.93 650 5.9% 0
Cardiff – 364,754 359,944 141.75 2,573 12% 60,963
Carmarthenshire – 172,810 175,246 2,360.81 73 5.7% 20,096
Ceredigion – 70,485 62,919 1,778.29 40 2.3% 2,090
Conwy – 101,067 100,723 1,132.42 89 3.3% 11,822
Denbighshire – 88,425 91,823 832.02 106 2.9% 17,852
Flintshire – 149,142 149,447 434.96 343 4.9% 23,495
Gwynedd – 113,041 104,186 2,545.29 44 3.7% 6,184
Isle of Anglesey – 49,216 48,476 707.34 70 1.6% 3,186
Merthyr Tydfil – 51,530 50,070 113.07 456 1.7% 0
Monmouthshire – 105,263 103,332 851.33 124 3.5% 11,296
Neath Port Talbot – 134,190 133,637 446.56 300 4.4% 18,982
Newport – 145,087 163,493 191.39 758 4.8% 55,836
Pembrokeshire – 122,054 120,774 1,628.4 75 4% 2,347
Powys – 141,217 133,673 5,180.97 27 4.7% 54
Rhondda Cynon Taf – 252,953 253,565 420.93 601 8.4% 0
Swansea – 241,219 224,712 373.97 645 8% 15,785
Torfaen – 107,065 106,086 125.32 854 3.5% 0
Vale of Glamorgan – 115,857 116,569 329.81 351 3.8% 5,087
Wrexham – 130,638 127,847 505.14 259 4.3% 257
04బహిర్గతం

Open exposure layers

Count of H3 resolution-3 cells whose centre falls in the unit and that carry each Natural Earth layer.

Urban areas
178.6 H3 cells
Ports
None at this resolution
Airports
1 H3 cells
Major roads
945.2 H3 cells
Railways
651.7 H3 cells
Rivers and lakes
78 H3 cells
05ప్రమాదం

Risk values

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

Neighbouring units

07మూలాలు

Sources, credits and licences

ADM1 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen GBR ADM1, source: Eurostat- European Commission, licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) · source · represents 2021
ADM2 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen GBR ADM2, source: Office for National Statistics Open Geography Portal, licence: Open Government Licence v3.0 · source · represents 2019
ADM3 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen GBR ADM3, source: Office for National Statistics, licence: Open Government Licence v3.0 · source · represents 2020
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.
దేశాలు
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.