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NXS-GRX-JPN · Eastern Asia · Regions

Shiga

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

Map All 47 first-level units
Page GRX-JPN-REdition Baseline Edition 2026Evidence close 2026-09-30ISO JPN / JPStatus UN member stateValues not yet publishedMethod v1.0.0-draft
1,534,392
people (GHSL 2025)
4,017 km²
area
1.3%
of Japan
19
units inside

01Kaart

Inside Shiga

The 19 ADM2 units of Shiga.

FIG 1 · 19 units inside Shiga
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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. 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

1,534,392

1.3% of Japan.

Mense · WorldPop 2025

1,397,435

-9% against GHSL; the two grids differ in method.

Area

4,017 km²

382 people per km².

Code

JP-25

Subdivision code as carried by the boundary source.

03Units

19 units inside Shiga

Each unit has its own page.

Boundary licences: Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0 · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0.

Unit Code People (GHSL) People (WorldPop) Area km² Per km² Share Coast ≤ 10 m
Aisho – 31,444 27,093 38.12 825 2% 0
Higashiomi – 105,114 92,061 388.09 271 6.8% 0
Hikone – 111,329 101,239 197.06 565 7.2% 0
Hino – 23,545 20,236 117.51 200 1.5% 0
Koka – 85,232 74,082 481.67 177 5.5% 0
Konan – 74,605 66,178 70.39 1,060 4.8% 0
Kora – 14,915 13,024 13.64 1,093 1% 0
Kusatsu – 45,259 45,018 67.6 670 2.9% 0
Maibara – 40,084 32,560 250.1 160 2.6% 0
Moriyama – 64,845 65,816 55.84 1,161 4.2% 0
Nagahama – 140,393 106,978 680.73 206 9% 0
Omihachiman – 109,077 101,192 177.44 615 7% 0
Otsu – 400,130 379,763 464.71 861 25.7% 0
Ritto – 147,650 153,647 52.87 2,793 9.5% 0
Ryuo – 8,175 7,467 44.39 184 0.5% 0
Taga – 29,479 25,410 135.71 217 1.9% 0
Takashima – 58,843 42,817 693.2 85 3.8% 0
Toyosato – 6,874 6,002 7.88 872 0.4% 0
Yasu – 59,189 55,879 80.21 738 3.8% 0
04Exposure

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
Hawens
None at this resolution
Lughawens
None at this resolution
Major roads
None at this resolution
Spoorweë
None at this resolution
Rivers and lakes
None at this resolution
05Risiko

Risk values

Values when released. Subnational risk values for Shiga publish with the edition from The Global Risks Index. Until then, run a scenario on open data for Japan.
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06Neighbours

Neighbouring units

07Bronne

Sources, credits and licences

ADM1 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen JPN 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 JPN ADM2, source: OpenStreetMap, Wambacher © OpenStreetMap contributors, licence: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 (share-alike: this boundary layer is offered under the same licence) · source · represents 2017. Offered under the same licence (Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0), 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.

Status

The methodology, structure and definitions of The Global Risks Index are a preparatory working draft (2026), circulated for review and comment and not for implementation. No value appears until an edition is released from a governed evidence cut; values then carry intervals, classes, sources and their correction pathway. Simulators run the published methods on numbers you choose and never show a NXS-GRX value.

A country profile reads public evidence about a place. It is not a statement by or about the policy of any government, takes no position on the status of any territory, and does not imply a national programme or participation. Names follow UN M49.

Wat NXS-GRX nie is nie

NXS-GRX is navorsings- en risiko-analise-inligting. Dit is nie 'n krediet- of ESG-gradering nie en gebruik geen graderingskaal nie, nie 'n maatstaf vir finansiële instrumente nie, nie amptelike statistiek nie, nie 'n noodwaarskuwing of amptelike klassifikasie nie, en nie advies nie. Dit mag nie gebruik word om natuurlike persone te evalueer nie. Risikoklasse is bande op 'n gepubliseerde skaal, nooit ranglyste van lande of mense nie.

Pulse-seine en vooruitskouwaarskynlikhede is inligting vir hersiening deur bevoegde owerhede, nooit openbare waarskuwings nie; amptelike waarskuwings kom slegs van gemandateerde owerhede.

Instellings en bronne

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Avis en français

La méthodologie et les définitions du NXS-GRX sont un projet de travail préparatoire (2026). Le NXS-GRX est une information de recherche et d’analyse des risques : ni notation, ni indice de référence financier, ni statistique officielle, ni alerte, ni conseil. Les classes de risque sont des bandes sur une échelle publiée, non des classements.