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Central Region

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

Page GRX-GHA-REdition Baseline Edition 2026Evidence close 2026-09-30ISO GHA / GHStatus UN member stateValues not yet publishedMethod v1.0.0-draft
2,778,284
people (GHSL 2025)
10,057 km²
area
8.1%
of Ghana
23
units inside

01Map

Inside Central Region

The 23 ADM2 units of Central Region.

FIG 1 · 23 units inside Central Region
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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.
02Figures

People, area and density

Source observations from open grids summed inside the boundary; not index values.

People · GHSL 2025

2,778,284

8.1% of Ghana.

People · WorldPop 2025

3,051,644

+10% against GHSL; the two grids differ in method.

વિસ્તાર

10,057 km²

276 people per km².

કોડ

GH-CP

Subdivision code as carried by the boundary source.

Low coastal zone

112,229

people on land at or below 10 m, 4.0% of the unit (GEBCO 2024 and GHSL 2025).

03Humanitarian data

Central Region in humanitarian data

Source observations from the Humanitarian Data Exchange, matched to this unit by name, each with its reference date, provider and licence. They are not index values.

Population · 2021-12-31

2,859,821

people. UNFPA · Creative Commons Attribution for Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY-IGO).

Poverty headcount · 2022-12-31

14.8%

of people in multidimensional poverty. Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative · Public Domain / No restrictions (CC0).

Rainfall · 2026-10-10

63%

of the long-term average, latest dekad. WFP – World Food Programme · Creative Commons Attribution International (CC BY).

04Units

23 units inside Central Region

Each unit has its own page.

Boundary licences: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 · Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Unit કોડ People (GHSL) People (WorldPop) Area km² Per km² Share Coast ≤ 10 m
Abura-asebu-kwamankese – 129,970 123,303 378.73 343 4.4% 0
Agona East – 70,582 85,481 328.98 215 2.4% 0
Agona West Municipal – 237,072 218,698 357.72 663 8.1% 0
Ajumako-enyan-essiam – 205,188 116,823 523.43 392 7% 0
Amansie South – 62,241 94,092 595.95 104 2.1% 0
Asikuma-odoben-brakwa – 133,864 127,585 775.87 173 4.6% 0
Assin Fosu – 128,646 90,389 279.92 460 4.4% 0
Assin North – 92,352 96,329 729.37 127 3.2% 0
Assin South – 129,663 103,571 1,106.5 117 4.4% 0
Awutu Senya – 55,784 192,771 245.82 227 1.9% 0
Awutu Senya East – 146,370 241,630 108.29 1,352 5% 420
Cape Coast Metropolitan – 284,673 211,043 122.9 2,316 9.7% 27,968
Effutu Municipal – 80,599 97,793 85.72 940 2.8% 13,275
Ekumfi – 43,252 58,119 278.02 156 1.5% 5,777
Gomoa Central – 9,147 17,243 122.19 75 0.3% 1,171
Gomoa East – 401,827 577,936 542.21 741 13.7% 22,278
Gomoa West – 114,365 122,156 339.35 337 3.9% 589
Komenda-edina-eguafo-abirem Municipal – 144,774 147,806 454.92 318 4.9% 30,566
Mfantseman Municipal – 188,534 171,492 302.2 624 6.4% 10,185
Twifo Atti-morkwa – 99,257 118,280 959.45 103 3.4% 0
Twifo Hemang Lower Denkyira – 55,893 81,811 578.44 97 1.9% 0
Upper Denkyira East Municipal – 22,386 48,119 504.44 44 0.8% 0
Upper Denkyira West – 90,744 132,556 580.9 156 3.1% 0
05સંપર્કમાં આવવું

Open exposure layers

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

Urban areas
177.8 H3 cells
Ports
None at this resolution
Airports
None at this resolution
Major roads
432.2 H3 cells
Railways
295.1 H3 cells
Rivers and lakes
None at this resolution
06જોખમ

Risk values

Values when released. Subnational risk values for Central Region publish with the edition from The Global Risks Index. Until then, run a scenario on open data for Ghana.
07Neighbours

Neighbouring units

08સ્ત્રોતો

Sources, credits and licences

ADM1 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen GHA ADM1, source: Open Street Map, licence: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 (share-alike: this boundary layer is offered under the same licence) · source · represents 2021. Offered under the same licence (Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0), kept as its own layer and not merged into other data.
ADM2 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen GHA ADM2, source: USAID Ghana HPNO, Ghana Statistical Service, licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) · 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.
દેશો
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.