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Niassa

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

Page GRX-MOZ-REdition Baseline Edition 2026Evidence close 2026-09-30ISO MOZ / MZStatus UN member stateValues not yet publishedMethod v1.0.0-draft
2,567,341
people (GHSL 2025)
130,003 km²
area
7.3%
of Mozambique
19
units inside

01Map

Inside Niassa

The 19 ADM2 units of Niassa.

FIG 1 · 19 units inside Niassa
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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

2,567,341

7.3% of Mozambique.

People · WorldPop 2025

2,451,118

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

क्षेत्र

130,003 km²

20 people per km².

कोड

MZ-A

Subdivision code as carried by the boundary source.

03Humanitarian data

Niassa in humanitarian data

Source observations from the Humanitarian Data Exchange, matched to this unit by name, each with its reference date, provider and licence. They are not index values.

Population · 2025-12-31

3,023,823

people. UNFPA · Creative Commons Attribution for Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY-IGO).

Poverty headcount · 2023-12-31

75.2%

of people in multidimensional poverty. Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative · Public Domain / No restrictions (CC0).

Rainfall · 2026-10-10

100%

of the long-term average, latest dekad. WFP – World Food Programme · Creative Commons Attribution International (CC BY).

04Units

19 units inside Niassa

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)

Unit कोड People (GHSL) People (WorldPop) Area km² Per km² Share Coast ≤ 10 m
Chimbonila – 196,883 66,452 5,437.7 36 7.6% 0
Cidade De Lichinga – 324,298 350,525 257.5 1,259 12.6% 0
Cuamba – 349,739 376,686 5,363.65 65 13.6% 0
Ilha Licom – 10,695 11,190 29.37 364 0.4% 0
Ilha Risunodo – 5,671 2,866 8.33 681 0.2% 0
Lago – 149,963 123,939 6,580.95 23 5.8% 0
Lago Niassa – 14,731 13,961 6,959.09 2 0.6% 0
Majune – 54,061 50,276 11,341.1 5 2.1% 0
Mandimba – 282,309 306,597 4,696.7 60 11% 0
Marrupa – 87,258 109,988 17,520.75 5 3.4% 0
Maua – 76,055 94,646 8,076.03 9 3% 0
Mavago – 45,577 42,549 9,230.96 5 1.8% 0
Mecanhelas – 518,565 436,788 5,029.69 103 20.1% 0
Mecula – 22,605 32,493 18,085.21 1 0.9% 0
Metarica – 52,136 63,106 4,876.88 11 2% 0
Muembe – 57,238 59,622 5,823.69 10 2.2% 0
Ngauma – 197,351 142,761 3,016.12 65 7.7% 0
Nipepe – 39,095 63,488 5,019.44 8 1.5% 0
Sanga – 91,084 104,083 12,544.52 7 3.5% 0
05संपर्कात येणे

Open exposure layers

Count of H3 resolution-3 cells whose centre falls in the unit and that carry each Natural Earth layer.

Urban areas
22 H3 cells
Ports
None at this resolution
Airports
None at this resolution
Major roads
889 H3 cells
Railways
259.4 H3 cells
Rivers and lakes
147.5 H3 cells
06जोखीम

Risk values

Values when released. Subnational risk values for Niassa publish with the edition from The Global Risks Index. Until then, run a scenario on open data for Mozambique.
07Neighbours

Neighbouring units

08स्रोत

Sources, credits and licences

ADM1 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen MOZ 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 MOZ ADM2, source: Mozambique INE (Instituto Nacional de Estatistica), OCHA ROSEA, licence: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO) · source · represents 2019
ADM3 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen MOZ ADM3, source: Mozambique INE (Instituto Nacional de Estatistica), OCHA ROSEA, licence: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO) · 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.
देश
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.