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Matsiatra Ambony

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

Page GRX-MDG-REdition Baseline Edition 2026Evidence close 2026-09-30ISO MDG / MGStatus UN member stateValues not yet publishedMethod v1.0.0-draft
1,141,242
people (GHSL 2025)
21,223 km²
area
3.7%
of Madagascar
7
units inside
01Map

Inside Matsiatra Ambony

The 7 ADM2 units of Matsiatra Ambony.

FIG 1 · 7 units inside Matsiatra Ambony
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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.
02Figures

People, area and density

Source observations from open grids summed inside the boundary; not index values.

People · GHSL 2025

1,141,242

3.7% of Madagascar.

People · WorldPop 2025

1,770,685

+55% against GHSL; the two grids differ in method.

Area

21,223 km²

54 people per km².

Code

matsiatra-ambony

No subdivision code in the boundary source.

03Units

7 units inside Matsiatra Ambony

Each unit has its own page.

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

UnitCodePeople (GHSL)People (WorldPop)Area km²Per km²ShareCoast ≤ 10 m
Ambalavao–233,810368,2654,811.654920.3%0
Ambohimahasoa–185,826329,4951,934.939616.2%0
Fianarantsoa I–68,450252,61985.947966%0
Ikalamavony–122,052177,9619,825.021210.6%0
Isandra–95,505177,0651,346.01718.3%0
Lalangina–108,163208,5991,054.821039.4%0
Vohibato–336,574270,1701,833.4718429.3%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
232.8 H3 cells
Ports
None at this resolution
Airports
None at this resolution
Major roads
175.6 H3 cells
Railways
44.8 H3 cells
Rivers and lakes
286.7 H3 cells
05Risk

Risk values

Values when released. Subnational risk values for Matsiatra Ambony publish with the edition from The Global Risks Index. Until then, run a scenario on open data for Madagascar.
07Sources

Sources, credits and licences

ADM1 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen MDG 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 MDG ADM2, source: Madagascar National Disaster Management Office (BNGRC), OCHA ROSA, licence: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO) · source · represents 2020
ADM3 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen MDG ADM3, source: Madagascar National Disaster Management Office (BNGRC), OCHA ROSA, licence: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO) · source · represents 2020
ADM4 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen MDG ADM4, source: Madagascar National Disaster Management Office (BNGRC), OCHA ROSA, licence: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO) · source · represents 2020
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.
Countries
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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