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Ventspils novads

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

Page GRX-LVA-REdition Baseline Edition 2026Evidence close 2026-09-30ISO LVA / LVStatus UN member stateValues not yet publishedMethod v1.0.0-draft
16,395
people (GHSL 2025)
2,447 km²
area
0.9%
of Latvia
13
units inside

01Kaart

Inside Ventspils novads

The 13 ADM2 units of Ventspils novads.

FIG 1 · 13 units inside Ventspils novads
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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

16,395

0.9% of Latvia.

Mense · WorldPop 2025

16,412

0% against GHSL; the two grids differ in method.

Area

2,447 km²

7 people per km².

Code

LV-106

Subdivision code as carried by the boundary source.

Laagliggende kussone

6,570

people on land at or below 10 m, 40.1% of the unit (GEBCO 2024 and GHSL 2025).

03Units

13 units inside Ventspils novads

Each unit has its own page.

Boundary licences: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Unit Code People (GHSL) People (WorldPop) Area km² Per km² Share Coast ≤ 10 m
Ances pag. – 641 504 392.39 2 3.9% 62
Jūrkalnes pag. – 299 237 99.14 3 1.8% 7
Piltene – 430 951 5.54 78 2.6% 324
Piltenes pag. – 471 435 195.42 2 2.9% 306
Popes pag. – 881 832 166.85 5 5.4% 11
Puzes pag. – 824 763 206.33 4 5% 5
Tārgales pag. – 5,323 5,355 362.5 15 32.5% 4,351
Ugāles pag. – 1,210 1,807 290.87 4 7.4% 1
Usmas pag. – 352 510 218.16 2 2.1% 0
Užavas pag. – 773 462 125.28 6 4.7% 348
Vārves pag. – 4,116 3,736 124.37 33 25.1% 2,103
Ziru pag. – 528 402 152.88 3 3.2% 293
Zlēku pag. – 548 418 106.9 5 3.3% 110
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
20.9 H3 cells
Hawens
1 H3 cells
Lughawens
None at this resolution
Major roads
423.1 H3 cells
Spoorweë
364.2 H3 cells
Rivers and lakes
None at this resolution
05Risiko

Risk values

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

Neighbouring units

07Bronne

Sources, credits and licences

ADM1 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen LVA ADM1, source: Geoportal of Latvia, licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) · source · represents 2021
ADM2 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen LVA ADM2, source: Valsts zemes dienests, licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) · source · represents 2021
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.