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Selangor

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
7,825,847
people (GHSL 2025)
7,972 km²
area
23.2%
of Malaysia
9
units inside

01Map

Inside Selangor

The 9 ADM2 units of Selangor.

FIG 1 · 9 units inside Selangor
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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

7,825,847

23.2% of Malaysia.

People · WorldPop 2025

7,636,974

-2% against GHSL; the two grids differ in method.

பரப்பு

7,972 km²

982 people per km².

குறியீடு

MY-10

Subdivision code as carried by the boundary source.

Low coastal zone

1,391,219

people on land at or below 10 m, 17.8% of the unit (GEBCO 2024 and GHSL 2025).

03Humanitarian data

Selangor 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

3,386,300

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

9 units inside Selangor

Each unit has its own page.

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

Unit குறியீடு People (GHSL) People (WorldPop) Area km² Per km² Share Coast ≤ 10 m
Gombak – 1,051,563 1,039,940 634.66 1,657 13.3% 898
Klang – 1,174,114 1,249,172 623.61 1,883 14.9% 806,269
Kuala Langat – 385,899 497,212 854.67 452 4.9% 210,680
Kuala Selangor – 335,838 356,195 1,189.76 282 4.3% 158,430
Petaling – 2,469,430 2,124,717 506.74 4,873 31.3% 103,573
Sabak Bernam – 108,583 89,620 982.28 111 1.4% 96,540
Sepang – 597,240 682,456 601.24 993 7.6% 37,029
Ulu Langat – 1,439,299 1,382,624 842.83 1,708 18.2% 0
Ulu Selangor – 327,692 291,603 1,756.6 187 4.2% 28
05வெளிப்பாடு

Open exposure layers

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

Urban areas
1,120.8 H3 cells
Ports
1 H3 cells
Airports
1 H3 cells
Major roads
493.6 H3 cells
Railways
241.1 H3 cells
Rivers and lakes
None at this resolution
06இடர்

Risk values

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

Neighbouring units

08மூலங்கள்

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.
நாடுகள்
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.