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Perak

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

Page GRX-MYS-REdition Baseline Edition 2026Evidence close 2026-09-30ISO MYS / MYStatus UN member stateValues not yet publishedMethod v1.0.0-draft
2,658,205
people (GHSL 2025)
20,909 km²
area
7.9%
of Malaysia
13
units inside

01Ramani

Inside Perak

The 13 ADM2 units of Perak.

FIG 1 · 13 units inside Perak
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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.

Watu · GHSL 2025

2,658,205

7.9% of Malaysia.

Watu · WorldPop 2025

2,640,002

-1% against GHSL; the two grids differ in method.

Area

20,909 km²

127 people per km².

Code

MY-08

Subdivision code as carried by the boundary source.

Ukanda wa pwani ulio chini

575,706

people on land at or below 10 m, 21.7% of the unit (GEBCO 2024 and GHSL 2025).

03Humanitarian data

Perak 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 · 2020-12-31

1,267,000

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

Rainfall · 2026-10-10

98%

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

04Units

13 units inside Perak

Each unit has its own page.

Boundary licences: Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0 · Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Unit Code People (GHSL) People (WorldPop) Area km² Per km² Share Coast ≤ 10 m
Bagan Datuk – 84,617 100,861 953.27 89 3.1% 79,483
Batang Padang – 120,670 138,388 1,792.39 67 4.5% 0
Hilir Perak – 144,178 148,157 792.97 182 5.4% 104,396
Hulu Perak – 92,549 101,182 6,620.22 14 3.4% 0
Kampar – 104,842 103,566 673.61 156 3.9% 178
Kerian – 222,550 195,813 923.88 241 8.3% 184,994
Kinta – 1,047,507 981,470 1,293.26 810 39% 1,340
Kuala Kangsar – 161,351 189,420 2,560.91 63 6% 0
Larut dan Matang – 305,085 270,339 1,301.86 234 11.4% 49,579
Manjung – 238,579 254,297 1,074.33 222 8.9% 138,794
Muallim – 47,457 63,711 944.52 50 1.8% 78
Perak Tengah – 89,943 96,218 1,288.56 70 3.3% 25,914
Selama – 28,148 22,749 761.57 37 1% 0
05Exposure

Open exposure layers

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

Urban areas
215.5 H3 cells
Bandari
None at this resolution
Viwanja vya ndege
None at this resolution
Major roads
535 H3 cells
Reli
175.5 H3 cells
Rivers and lakes
155.5 H3 cells
06Hatari

Risk values

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

Neighbouring units

08Vyanzo

Sources, credits and licences

ADM1 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen MYS 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 MYS ADM2, source: geoBoundaries, citypopulation.de, licence: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License · source · represents 2020
ADM3 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen MYS ADM3, source: Wikimedia Commons, geoBoundaries, licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (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.
Nchi
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.