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Lao People’s Democratic Republic: 18 provinces, states and territories

Every administrative level, from the 18 first-level units down to ADM2, on a terrain map with people, density and sources.

Map All units Country map
Page GRX-LAO-REdition Baseline Edition 2026Evidence close 2026-09-30ISO LAO / LAStatus UN member stateValues not yet publishedMethod v1.0.0-draft
18
first-level units
166
units at 2 levels
7,817,284
people (GHSL 2025)
Terrain
open relief

01Map

Lao People’s Democratic Republic by province, state and territory

18 first-level units and 148 second-level units inside them, raised by people per km² over the population grid and terrain. Select a unit to drill in or open its page.

FIG 1 · 18 first-level units of Lao People’s Democratic Republic
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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.
02Levels

Every administrative level of Lao People’s Democratic Republic

Each level comes from the boundary source admitted for that country and level, with its own licence.

ADM1
18 first-level units · geoBoundaries gbOpen · Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0 · each with its own page
ADM2
148 second-level units · geoBoundaries gbOpen · Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO) · each with its own page
03Units

All 18 first-level units

Two population estimates from open grids, summed inside each boundary. The CSV carries the first two levels; each unit page carries the levels below it.

Boundary licences: Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0 · Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO)

Unit குறியீடு People (GHSL) People (WorldPop) Area km² Per km² Share Coast ≤ 10 m
Attapeu LA-AT 190,123 178,619 9,559 20 2.4% 0
Bokeo LA-BK 247,525 237,291 6,959 36 3.2% 0
Bolikhamsai LA-BL 423,099 352,517 15,627 27 5.4% 0
Champasak LA-CH 931,569 813,794 14,981 62 11.9% 0
Houaphan LA-HO 289,582 313,750 17,398 17 3.7% 0
Khammouane LA-KH 517,416 449,641 16,783 31 6.6% 0
Luang Namtha LA-LM 256,236 235,317 9,599 27 3.3% 0
Luang Prabang LA-LP 547,981 476,292 20,055 27 7% 0
Oudomxay LA-OU 425,618 367,433 11,794 36 5.4% 0
Phongsaly LA-PH 213,228 204,288 15,486 14 2.7% 0
Salavan LA-SL 540,734 487,875 10,179 53 6.9% 0
Savannakhet LA-SV 1,130,242 1,180,858 21,441 53 14.5% 0
Vientiane LA-VI 475,232 500,406 12,754 37 6.1% 0
Vientiane Capital LA-VT 606,312 1,021,376 3,574 170 7.8% 0
Xaignabouli LA-XA 446,549 450,069 15,507 29 5.7% 0
Xaisomboun LA-XN 92,952 124,791 7,695 12 1.2% 0
Xekong LA-XE 156,783 136,477 8,297 19 2% 0
Xiangkhouang LA-XI 326,103 283,249 12,764 26 4.2% 0
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Subnational risk products

Values when released. Subnational risk values for Lao People’s Democratic Republic publish with the edition from The Global Risks Index, with intervals and sources. Until then these pages show boundaries, people and exposure only.
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Sources, credits and licences

ADM1 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen LAO 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 LAO ADM2, source: National Geographic Department, OCHA ROAP, licence: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO) · source · represents 2019
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.
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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.

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