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Aceh

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

Page GRX-IDN-REdition Baseline Edition 2026Evidence close 2026-09-30ISO IDN / IDStatus UN member stateValues not yet publishedMethod v1.0.0-draft
4,287,151
people (GHSL 2025)
57,055 km²
area
1.6%
of Indonesia
23
units inside

01Map

Inside Aceh

The 23 ADM2 units of Aceh.

FIG 1 · 23 units inside Aceh
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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

4,287,151

1.6% of Indonesia.

People · WorldPop 2025

5,326,283

+24% against GHSL; the two grids differ in method.

Indawo

57,055 km²

75 people per km².

Ikhowudi

ID-AC

Subdivision code as carried by the boundary source.

Low coastal zone

1,343,535

people on land at or below 10 m, 31.3% of the unit (GEBCO 2024 and GHSL 2025).

03Humanitarian data

Aceh 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 · 2017-12-31

3%

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

Rainfall · 2026-10-10

90%

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

04Units

23 units inside Aceh

Each unit has its own page.

Boundary licences: Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0 · Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO)

Unit Ikhowudi People (GHSL) People (WorldPop) Area km² Per km² Share Coast ≤ 10 m
Aceh Barat – 122,049 182,109 2,823.28 43 2.9% 54,473
Aceh Barat Daya – 97,913 149,761 1,902 51 2.3% 34,987
Aceh Besar – 428,127 407,988 2,910.54 147 10% 134,875
Aceh Jaya – 61,140 86,255 3,895.14 16 1.4% 16,452
Aceh Selatan – 191,106 214,227 4,234.4 45 4.5% 43,223
Aceh Singkil – 114,781 136,177 1,894.25 61 2.7% 12,624
Aceh Tamiang – 228,334 304,324 2,151.94 106 5.3% 63,355
Aceh Tengah – 190,035 232,185 4,726.96 40 4.4% 0
Aceh Tenggara – 184,534 239,492 4,166.19 44 4.3% 0
Aceh Timur – 279,175 400,730 5,464.21 51 6.5% 113,677
Aceh Utara – 501,982 599,139 2,722.65 184 11.7% 278,699
Bener Meriah – 117,303 186,152 1,939.18 60 2.7% 0
Bireuen – 378,863 408,498 1,798.88 211 8.9% 108,634
Gayo Lues – 84,274 109,825 5,475.38 15 2% 0
Kota Banda Aceh – 192,356 251,923 55.36 3,475 4.5% 149,590
Kota Langsa – 174,118 218,521 213.03 817 4.1% 101,965
Kota Lhokseumawe – 138,688 184,866 138.62 1,000 3.2% 72,823
Kota Sabang – 31,646 45,131 123.26 257 0.7% 567
Kota Subulussalam – 65,284 101,446 1,172.52 56 1.5% 0
Nagan Raya – 148,800 182,058 3,438.35 43 3.5% 15,649
Pidie – 363,121 448,793 2,988.53 122 8.5% 94,615
Pidie Jaya – 124,066 159,165 947.63 131 2.9% 36,569
Simeulue – 57,512 61,991 1,844.55 31 1.3% 6,045
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
34.5 H3 cells
Ports
1 H3 cells
Airports
None at this resolution
Major roads
766.2 H3 cells
Railways
222.5 H3 cells
Rivers and lakes
None at this resolution
06Umngcipheko

Risk values

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

Neighbouring units

08Imithombo

Sources, credits and licences

ADM1 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen IDN 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 IDN ADM2, source: Badan Pusat Statistik (BPS – Statistics Indonesia), World Food Programme, OCHA ROAP, licence: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO) · 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.