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Janjanbureh

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

Page GRX-GMB-REdition Baseline Edition 2026Evidence close 2026-09-30ISO GMB / GMStatus UN member stateValues not yet publishedMethod v1.0.0-draft
141,907
people (GHSL 2025)
1,477 km²
area
5%
of Gambia
6
units inside

01Map

Inside Janjanbureh

The 6 ADM2 units of Janjanbureh.

FIG 1 · 6 units inside Janjanbureh
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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

141,907

5% of Gambia.

People · WorldPop 2025

147,606

+4% against GHSL; the two grids differ in method.

Indawo

1,477 km²

96 people per km².

Ikhowudi

GM-M

Subdivision code as carried by the boundary source.

Low coastal zone

35,348

people on land at or below 10 m, 24.9% of the unit (GEBCO 2024 and GHSL 2025).

03Humanitarian data

Janjanbureh 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.

Poverty headcount · 2020-12-31

74.8%

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

04Units

6 units inside Janjanbureh

Each unit has its own page.

Boundary licences: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)

Unit Ikhowudi People (GHSL) People (WorldPop) Area km² Per km² Share Coast ≤ 10 m
Janjanbureh – 2,287 2,620 11.16 205 1.6% 0
Lower Fuladu West – 55,626 55,541 346.84 160 38.6% 12,645
Niamina Dankunku – 5,594 5,956 126.9 44 3.9% 2,972
Niamina East – 26,106 27,370 364.57 72 18.1% 9,455
Niamina West – 11,885 12,785 155.66 76 8.2% 4,429
Upper Fuladu West – 42,696 45,955 472.04 90 29.6% 6,006
05Ukuchaphazeleka

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
Ports
None at this resolution
Airports
None at this resolution
Major roads
None at this resolution
Railways
None at this resolution
Rivers and lakes
None at this resolution
06Umngcipheko

Risk values

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

Neighbouring units

08Imithombo

Sources, credits and licences

ADM1 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen GMB ADM1, source: Knippenberg, Erwin, & Moritz, Meyer. “The Hidden Potential of Mobile Phone Data Insights on COVID-19 in the Gambia.” Data Blog, The World Bank Data Catalogue, licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0) · source · represents 2020
ADM2 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen GMB ADM2, source: geoBoundaries, Knippenberg, Erwin, & Moritz, Meyer. “The Hidden Potential of Mobile Phone Data Insights on COVID-19 in the Gambia.” The World Bank Data Catalogue, licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0) · source · represents 2020
ADM3 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen GMB ADM3, source: Knippenberg, Erwin, & Moritz, Meyer. “The Hidden Potential of Mobile Phone Data Insights on COVID-19 in the Gambia.” Data Blog, The World Bank Data Catalogue, licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0) · 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.
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.