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Chinandega

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

Page GRX-NIC-REdition Baseline Edition 2026Evidence close 2026-09-30ISO NIC / NIStatus UN member stateValues not yet publishedMethod v1.0.0-draft
419,426
people (GHSL 2025)
4,838 km²
area
5.9%
of Nicaragua
13
units inside

01Kaart

Inside Chinandega

The 13 ADM2 units of Chinandega.

FIG 1 · 13 units inside Chinandega
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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.

Mense · GHSL 2025

419,426

5.9% of Nicaragua.

Mense · WorldPop 2025

438,088

+4% against GHSL; the two grids differ in method.

Area

4,838 km²

87 people per km².

Code

NI-CI

Subdivision code as carried by the boundary source.

Laagliggende kussone

20,633

people on land at or below 10 m, 4.9% of the unit (GEBCO 2024 and GHSL 2025).

03Humanitarian data

Chinandega 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

439,906

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

Poverty headcount · 2012-12-31

9.7%

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

Rainfall · 2026-10-10

128%

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

04Units

13 units inside Chinandega

Each unit has its own page.

Boundary licences: Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0.

Unit Code People (GHSL) People (WorldPop) Area km² Per km² Share Coast ≤ 10 m
Chichigalpa (Municipio) – 50,508 50,649 220.84 229 12% 59
Chinandega (Municipio) – 142,996 144,991 664.06 215 34.1% 744
Corinto (Municipio) – 110 82 60.69 2 0% 100
El Realejo (Municipio) – 10,869 14,178 105.11 103 2.6% 6,889
El Viejo (Municipio) – 86,537 89,714 1,305.47 66 20.6% 6,847
Posoltega (Municipio) – 19,522 22,831 149.56 131 4.7% 0
Puerto Morazán (Municipio) – 10,129 12,331 511.81 20 2.4% 4,505
San Francisco del Norte (Municipio) – 5,632 5,359 119.65 47 1.3% 0
San Juan de Cinco Pinos (Municipio) – 10,766 10,702 60.87 177 2.6% 0
San Pedro del Norte (Municipio) – 5,567 4,868 71.14 78 1.3% 0
Santo Tomás del Norte (Municipio) – 9,495 10,040 41.01 232 2.3% 0
Somotillo (Municipio) – 37,496 39,526 726.72 52 8.9% 1,068
Villanueva (Municipio) – 29,799 32,817 800.36 37 7.1% 257
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
None at this resolution
Hawens
1 H3 cells
Lughawens
None at this resolution
Major roads
298.5 H3 cells
Spoorweë
110.9 H3 cells
Rivers and lakes
13.3 H3 cells
06Risiko

Risk values

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

Neighbouring units

08Bronne

Sources, credits and licences

ADM1 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen NIC 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 NIC ADM2, 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.
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.
Lande
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.