The whole planet, land, sea and ice
Oceans and seas, exclusive economic zones, the high seas, Antarctica and every area outside the country sites, on relief maps with their sources.
Every surface of the planet
Land, sea and ice, each from a licence-admitted source, so that no place falls outside the map.
295 oceans and seas
Oceans, seas, gulfs, bays and straits, named, on the sea-floor relief.
Oceans
Exclusive economic zones285 zones
140,905,194 km² within 200 nautical miles of the coasts, as recorded by Marine Regions.
Zones
High seas222,474,790 km²
The ocean beyond every exclusive economic zone.
High seas
Antarctica12,258,370 km²
The continent and the Antarctic Treaty area south of 60° S.
Antarctica
Other areas73 areas
Areas Natural Earth maps outside the 195 country sites, with their people and area.
Areas
Low coastal zone770,349,458 people
On land at or below 10 m above the sea, country by country.
Coasts
Countries195 country sites
Every country to its provinces, districts and communes.
देश
Hazard layers awaiting licence review
Each layer appears here when counsel admits its source for these pages. Until then no value from it is shown.
| Hazard layer | स्रोत | Why it waits |
|---|---|---|
| Tropical cyclone tracks | IBTrACS, NOAA NCEI | Published for research; commercial use is governed by WMO Resolution 40 and is not confirmed for these pages. |
| River flood hazard (return periods) | JRC global river flood hazard maps | The register records the release terms as unconfirmed (legal review required). |
| Seismic hazard | GEM global seismic hazard map | Expected to be non-commercial; legal review required. |
| Earthquake catalogue | USGS earthquake catalogue | Public domain with acknowledgement requested; the register row is under legal review. |
| Landslide susceptibility | NASA LHASA | NASA data policy places no restriction on use; the register keeps NASA sources under legal review. |
| Active fires | NASA FIRMS | Live data reaches these pages only through NXS-GRX (canonical data, provenance and risk), once admitted. |
Sources, credits and licences
- Natural Earth 1:10m marine areas
- Made with Natural Earth (1:10m geography marine polygons, public domain) · source
- Maritime Boundaries Geodatabase: Exclusive Economic Zones (200 NM), v12
- Flanders Marine Institute (2023). Marine Regions, www.marineregions.org (CC BY 4.0) · source. Marine Regions data are not meant for legal, economic (resource exploration) or navigational purposes.
- Natural Earth
- Made with Natural Earth (1:10m admin-0 map units, public domain) · source
- 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).
- Position
- Boundaries, names and zones are shown as recorded by their sources, for location only. They take no position on the status of any territory, on any claim or on the delimitation of any boundary.
स्थिती
The methodology, structure and definitions of The Global Risks Index are a preparatory working draft (2026), circulated for review and comment and not for implementation. No value appears until an edition is released from a governed evidence cut; values then carry intervals, classes, sources and their correction pathway. Simulators run the published methods on numbers you choose and never show a NXS-GRX value.
What NXS-GRX is not
NXS-GRX is research and risk-analytics information. It is not a credit or ESG rating and uses no rating scale, not a benchmark for financial instruments, not official statistics, not an emergency warning or official classification, and not advice. It must not be used to evaluate natural persons. Risk classes are bands on a published scale, never rankings of countries or people.
Institutions and sources
The Nexus Consortium is stewarded by three independent not-for-profit institutions: The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI), through GCRI US in Washington, DC and GCRI Canada in Ontario, with GCRI Canada as Lead Institution, Consortium Secretariat and lead contracting organisation; The Global Risks Forum (GRF); and The Global Risks Alliance (GRA). Technology, infrastructure and service providers work with the Consortium at arm’s length under written agreements, like every other external party in the public-private-planet model, and hold no role in its stewardship.
Every value carries the attribution of its sources, which keep their own licences. External names are cited for interoperability only. Nexus-authored text is intended for CC BY 4.0 on release.
Avis en français
La méthodologie et les définitions du NXS-GRX sont un projet de travail préparatoire (2026). Le NXS-GRX est une information de recherche et d’analyse des risques : ni notation, ni indice de référence financier, ni statistique officielle, ni alerte, ni conseil. Les classes de risque sont des bandes sur une échelle publiée, non des classements.