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Delhi

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

Page GRX-IND-REdition Baseline Edition 2026Evidence close 2026-09-30ISO IND / INStatus UN member stateValues not yet publishedMethod v1.0.0-draft
21,975,274
people (GHSL 2025)
1,488 km²
area
1.5%
of India
11
units inside

01Kaart

Inside Delhi

The 11 ADM2 units of Delhi.

FIG 1 · 11 units inside Delhi
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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.

Mense · GHSL 2025

21,975,274

1.5% of India.

Mense · WorldPop 2025

21,946,427

0% against GHSL; the two grids differ in method.

Area

1,488 km²

14,768 people per km².

Code

IN-DL

Subdivision code as carried by the boundary source.

03Humanitarian data

Delhi 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 · 2021-12-31

3.4%

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

04Units

11 units inside Delhi

Each unit has its own page.

Boundary licences: Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 India (CC BY 2.5 IN) · Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0.

Unit Code People (GHSL) People (WorldPop) Area km² Per km² Share Coast ≤ 10 m
Central – 1,982,665 1,728,067 75.59 26,229 9% 0
East – 1,708,934 1,152,839 66.32 25,768 7.8% 0
New Delhi – 2,573,338 3,748,241 171.14 15,036 11.7% 0
North – 2,752,126 3,393,570 289.55 9,505 12.5% 0
North East – 1,577,546 720,818 38.75 40,711 7.2% 0
North West – 991,455 1,068,508 158.98 6,236 4.5% 0
Shahdara – 1,581,104 767,763 26.49 59,687 7.2% 0
South – 1,909,761 1,991,850 151.48 12,607 8.7% 0
South East – 1,896,282 2,156,641 105.66 17,947 8.6% 0
South West – 956,035 1,682,020 269.48 3,548 4.4% 0
West – 4,046,029 3,536,109 134.04 30,185 18.4% 0
05Exposure

Open exposure layers

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

Urban areas
2,954 H3 cells
Hawens
None at this resolution
Lughawens
2 H3 cells
Major roads
660.5 H3 cells
Spoorweë
409.2 H3 cells
Rivers and lakes
166 H3 cells
06Risiko

Risk values

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

Neighbouring units

08Bronne

Sources, credits and licences

ADM1 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen IND ADM1, source: DataMeet India community, Election Commission of India, licence: Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 India (CC BY 2.5 IN) · source · represents 2011
ADM2 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen IND ADM2, source: Pathways Data Pvt. Ltd., lgdirectory.gov.in © OpenStreetMap contributors, licence: Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0 (share-alike: this boundary layer is offered under the same licence) · source · represents 2021. Offered under the same licence (Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0), kept as its own layer and not merged into other data.
ADM3 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen IND ADM3, source: Pathways Data Pvt. Ltd., lgdirectory.gov.in © OpenStreetMap contributors, licence: Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0 (share-alike: this boundary layer is offered under the same licence) · source · represents 2018. Offered under the same licence (Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0), kept as its own layer and not merged into other data.
ADM4 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen IND ADM4, source: Pathways Data Pvt. Ltd., lgdirectory.gov.in © OpenStreetMap contributors, licence: Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0 (share-alike: this boundary layer is offered under the same licence) · source · represents 2019. Offered under the same licence (Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0), kept as its own layer and not merged into other data.
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.
Lande
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.