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Yamaguchi

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
1,174,874
people (GHSL 2025)
6,100 km²
area
1%
of Japan
18
units inside

01Map

Inside Yamaguchi

The 18 ADM2 units of Yamaguchi.

FIG 1 · 18 units inside Yamaguchi
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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.

People · GHSL 2025

1,174,874

1% of Japan.

People · WorldPop 2025

1,107,959

-6% against GHSL; the two grids differ in method.

ప్రాంతం

6,100 km²

193 people per km².

కోడ్

JP-35

Subdivision code as carried by the boundary source.

Low coastal zone

202,993

people on land at or below 10 m, 17.3% of the unit (GEBCO 2024 and GHSL 2025).

03Units

18 units inside Yamaguchi

Each unit has its own page.

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

Unit కోడ్ People (GHSL) People (WorldPop) Area km² Per km² Share Coast ≤ 10 m
Abu – 3,148 2,245 115.67 27 0.3% 71
Hagi – 36,065 28,733 696.45 52 3.1% 3,494
Hikari – 46,089 44,266 92.16 500 3.9% 8,647
Hirao – 15,597 13,066 34.48 452 1.3% 2,938
Houfu – 100,299 102,595 188.39 532 8.5% 29,183
Iwakuni – 112,488 100,001 871.18 129 9.6% 19,986
Kaminoseki – 379 220 33.02 11 0% 0
Kudamatsu – 47,057 54,494 88.95 529 4% 7,553
Mine – 26,804 19,143 472.31 57 2.3% 0
Nagato – 14,416 12,532 356.88 40 1.2% 2,926
Sanyo Onoda – 56,921 55,205 133.45 427 4.8% 16,989
Shimonoseki – 251,041 224,383 715.05 351 21.4% 33,425
Shunan – 92,616 80,505 655.02 141 7.9% 14,700
Tabuse – 10,107 9,508 49.8 203 0.9% 463
Ube – 129,691 130,998 288.22 450 11% 38,342
Waki – 19,689 16,434 10.47 1,881 1.7% 0
Yamaguchi – 177,470 188,082 1,023.95 173 15.1% 16,794
Yanai – 35,178 31,306 139.22 253 3% 3,931
04బహిర్గతం

Open exposure layers

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

Urban areas
750.7 H3 cells
Ports
None at this resolution
Airports
None at this resolution
Major roads
387.1 H3 cells
Railways
348.9 H3 cells
Rivers and lakes
None at this resolution
05ప్రమాదం

Risk values

Values when released. Subnational risk values for Yamaguchi 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

07మూలాలు

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.
దేశాలు
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.

స్థితి

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What NXS-GRX is not

NXS-GRX is research and risk-analytics information. It is not a credit or ESG rating and uses no rating scale, not a benchmark for financial instruments, not official statistics, not an emergency warning or official classification, and not advice. It must not be used to evaluate natural persons. Risk classes are bands on a published scale, never rankings of countries or people.

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Institutions and sources

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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.