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Eastern 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
3,247,000
people (GHSL 2025)
18,760 km²
area
9.4%
of Ghana
32
units inside

01Map

Inside Eastern Region

The 32 ADM2 units of Eastern Region.

FIG 1 · 32 units inside Eastern 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

3,247,000

9.4% of Ghana.

People · WorldPop 2025

3,179,423

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

क्षेत्र

18,760 km²

173 people per km².

कोड

GH-EP

Subdivision code as carried by the boundary source.

Low coastal zone

6,153

people on land at or below 10 m, 0.2% of the unit (GEBCO 2024 and GHSL 2025).

03Humanitarian data

Eastern 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

2,925,653

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

Poverty headcount · 2022-12-31

14.1%

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

Rainfall · 2026-10-10

45%

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

04Units

32 units inside Eastern 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 कोड People (GHSL) People (WorldPop) Area km² Per km² Share Coast ≤ 10 m
Abuakwa North – 116,327 110,557 160.02 727 3.6% 0
Abuakwa South – 104,037 92,138 350.91 296 3.2% 0
Achiase – 100,915 48,886 416.25 242 3.1% 0
Akwapem North – 93,425 91,765 308.09 303 2.9% 0
Akwapem South – 45,215 87,312 224.94 201 1.4% 0
Akyem Mansa – 117,899 79,430 614.46 192 3.7% 0
Asene Akroso Manso – 59,838 76,786 421.01 142 1.9% 0
Atiwa East – 89,264 55,754 582.24 153 2.8% 0
Atiwa West – 74,493 66,346 588.2 127 2.3% 0
Ayensuano – 62,364 109,850 501.32 124 1.9% 0
Birim Central Municipal – 133,326 89,771 107.21 1,244 4.1% 0
Birim North – 101,542 88,212 568.79 179 3.2% 0
Birim South – 58,240 19,639 313.35 186 1.8% 0
Denkyembour – 81,278 77,818 438.6 185 2.5% 0
Fanteakwa North – 77,991 65,579 840.87 93 2.4% 0
Fanteakwa South – 46,515 44,797 263.17 177 1.4% 0
Kwaebibirem – 145,208 126,390 807.12 180 4.5% 0
Kwahu Afram Plains North – 163,596 46,384 2,351.82 70 5.1% 0
Kwahu Afram Plains South – 126,821 48,639 3,110.16 41 3.9% 0
Kwahu East – 68,315 68,057 625.65 109 2.1% 0
Kwahu South – 150,268 157,653 799.55 188 4.7% 0
Kwahu West – 73,674 115,721 403.05 183 2.3% 0
Lower Manya – 113,289 140,132 305.61 371 3.5% 1,950
New Juaben North Municipal – 73,057 97,374 105.75 691 2.3% 0
New Juaben South Municipal – 139,972 124,695 54.49 2,569 4.3% 0
Nsawam Adoagyiri – 122,308 237,796 176.08 695 3.8% 0
Okere – 51,202 50,087 308.33 166 1.6% 0
Suhum Municipal – 165,059 185,650 360.87 457 5.1% 0
Upper Manya – 89,527 81,437 862.88 104 2.8% 0
Upper West Akim – 88,771 113,520 343.57 258 2.8% 0
West Akim – 162,467 129,611 477.4 340 5% 0
Yilo Krobo – 121,795 166,369 485.71 251 3.8% 0
05संपर्कात येणे

Open exposure layers

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

Urban areas
1,004.4 H3 cells
Ports
None at this resolution
Airports
None at this resolution
Major roads
743.8 H3 cells
Railways
283.7 H3 cells
Rivers and lakes
194.8 H3 cells
06जोखीम

Risk values

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

Neighbouring units

08स्रोत

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.
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.