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Niigata

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

Page GRX-JPN-REdition Baseline Edition 2026Evidence close 2026-09-30ISO JPN / JPStatus UN member stateValues not yet publishedMethod v1.0.0-draft
2,034,449
people (GHSL 2025)
12,575 km²
area
1.7%
of Japan
30
units inside

01Imephu

Inside Niigata

The 30 ADM2 units of Niigata.

FIG 1 · 30 units inside Niigata
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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.

Abantu · GHSL 2025

2,034,449

1.7% of Japan.

Abantu · WorldPop 2025

1,935,856

-5% against GHSL; the two grids differ in method.

Area

12,575 km²

162 people per km².

Code

JP-15

Subdivision code as carried by the boundary source.

Indawo esogwini ephansi

638,104

people on land at or below 10 m, 31.4% of the unit (GEBCO 2024 and GHSL 2025).

03Units

30 units inside Niigata

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
Aga – 12,708 7,562 952.06 13 0.6% 0
Agano – 37,223 32,182 194.75 191 1.8% 21,152
Awashimaura – 14 24 9.57 1 0% 0
Gosen – 56,253 47,073 349.95 161 2.8% 12,236
Itoigawa – 35,565 30,245 746.07 48 1.7% 2,174
Izumozaki – 5,385 4,406 44.49 121 0.3% 12
Joetsu – 165,895 152,035 973.52 170 8.2% 69,317
Kamo – 34,822 27,412 133.59 261 1.7% 15,940
Kariwa – 6,045 5,276 26.17 231 0.3% 1,802
Kashiwazaki – 71,420 63,293 441.98 162 3.5% 35,385
Minamiuonuma – 60,696 50,977 584.04 104 3% 0
Mitsuke – 24,112 23,200 78 309 1.2% 0
Murakami – 57,249 46,519 1,170.28 49 2.8% 17,841
Myoko – 30,111 25,089 445.45 68 1.5% 0
Nagaoka – 271,051 275,350 890.09 305 13.3% 11,182
Niigata – 639,996 683,667 725.33 882 31.5% 215,721
Ojiya – 44,530 38,197 155.21 287 2.2% 0
Sado – 48,188 34,798 854.61 56 2.4% 9,018
Sanjo – 109,593 103,459 431.54 254 5.4% 78,689
Seiro – 11,311 12,382 37.58 301 0.6% 11,311
Sekikawa – 5,166 3,457 299.27 17 0.3% 0
Shibata – 92,187 87,722 532.83 173 4.5% 48,309
Tagami – 8,267 7,901 31.63 261 0.4% 5,123
Tainai – 24,024 21,049 265.42 91 1.2% 4,781
Tokamachi – 55,634 42,143 592.68 94 2.7% 0
Tsubame – 68,145 64,066 110.96 614 3.4% 64,816
Tsunan – 10,484 7,551 170.24 62 0.5% 0
Uonuma – 36,621 28,091 946.64 39 1.8% 0
Yahiko – 3,339 3,190 25.24 132 0.2% 1,414
Yuzawa – 8,087 7,401 354.91 23 0.4% 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
1,656.5 H3 cells
Amachweba
1 H3 cells
Izikhumulo zezindiza
None at this resolution
Major roads
355.8 H3 cells
Ojantshi
420.9 H3 cells
Rivers and lakes
23.8 H3 cells
05Ubungozi

Risk values

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

Neighbouring units

07Imithombo

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.
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.