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Saitama

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
6,930,451
people (GHSL 2025)
3,797 km²
area
6%
of Japan
44
units inside

01Imephu

Inside Saitama

The 44 ADM2 units of Saitama.

FIG 1 · 44 units inside Saitama
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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

6,930,451

6% of Japan.

Abantu · WorldPop 2025

7,236,212

+4% against GHSL; the two grids differ in method.

Area

3,797 km²

1,825 people per km².

Code

JP-11

Subdivision code as carried by the boundary source.

Indawo esogwini ephansi

2,398,106

people on land at or below 10 m, 34.6% of the unit (GEBCO 2024 and GHSL 2025).

03Units

44 units inside Saitama

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
Ageo – 152,554 159,601 45.24 3,372 2.2% 0
Asaka – 146,081 167,273 18.31 7,978 2.1% 0
Chichibu – 66,695 57,438 577.39 116 1% 0
Fujimi – 33,743 32,252 19.64 1,718 0.5% 0
Fujimino – 146,003 167,184 14.71 9,925 2.1% 51,531
Fukaya – 154,693 152,425 138.77 1,115 2.2% 0
Gyoda – 102,541 90,903 67.48 1,520 1.5% 0
Hanno – 58,579 59,867 192.7 304 0.8% 0
Hanyu – 46,565 40,612 58.34 798 0.7% 0
Hasuda – 41,146 39,329 27.31 1,507 0.6% 12,263
Hidaka – 49,389 45,122 47.39 1,042 0.7% 0
Higashimatsuyama – 75,490 82,628 65.53 1,152 1.1% 0
Honjo – 63,840 65,744 89.91 710 0.9% 0
Iruma – 155,891 146,723 44.95 3,468 2.2% 0
Kamikawa – 9,829 8,272 47.58 207 0.1% 0
Kamisato – 53,541 51,696 29.26 1,830 0.8% 0
Kasukabe – 273,994 213,368 66.09 4,146 3.9% 204,943
Kawagoe – 320,500 296,507 109.13 2,937 4.6% 15,493
Kawaguchi – 613,119 691,157 61.92 9,902 8.8% 462,385
Kazo – 132,521 133,511 133.78 991 1.9% 6,277
Kitamoto – 70,751 70,751 19.78 3,577 1% 555
Konosu – 81,410 84,346 67.14 1,213 1.2% 0
Koshigaya – 423,147 486,325 59.93 7,061 6.1% 418,557
Kuki – 105,329 108,347 82.03 1,284 1.5% 26,524
Kumagaya – 241,765 244,958 159.94 1,512 3.5% 0
Misato – 106,501 127,586 29.96 3,555 1.5% 106,501
Miyoshi – 106,501 106,501 15.35 6,938 1.5% 0
Niiza – 240,229 240,229 22.72 10,573 3.4% 0
Okegawa – 100,224 94,000 25.48 3,933 1.4% 6,802
Saitama – 1,002,997 1,160,292 217.63 4,609 14.3% 286,997
Sakado – 115,579 115,579 40.88 2,827 1.7% 0
Satte – 66,081 62,624 33.9 1,949 0.9% 42,120
Sayama – 187,672 182,969 49.01 3,829 2.7% 0
Shiki – 200,406 229,478 9.08 22,071 2.9% 51,870
Shiraoka – 56,449 61,786 25.07 2,252 0.8% 26,564
Soka – 199,508 218,364 27.37 7,289 2.9% 0
Toda – 111,421 139,645 18.28 6,095 1.6% 98,312
Tokorozawa – 183,085 143,215 71.99 2,543 2.6% 0
Tsurugashima – 59,132 56,520 17.63 3,354 0.8% 0
Wako – 137,972 137,972 11.01 12,532 2% 0
Warabi – 251,166 314,782 4.99 50,334 3.6% 226,542
Yashio – 183,101 200,406 18.18 10,072 2.6% 180,229
Yoshikawa – 56,556 61,903 31.85 1,776 0.8% 55,447
Yoshimi – 8,453 7,053 38.72 218 0.1% 66
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
Amachweba
None at this resolution
Izikhumulo zezindiza
None at this resolution
Major roads
None at this resolution
Ojantshi
None at this resolution
Rivers and lakes
None at this resolution
05Ubungozi

Risk values

Values when released. Subnational risk values for Saitama 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.