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NXS-GRX-NOR · Northern Europe · Regions

Vestland

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

Map All 11 first-level units
Page GRX-NOR-REdition Baseline Edition 2026Evidence close 2026-09-30ISO NOR / NOStatus UN member stateValues not yet publishedMethod v1.0.0-draft
534,480
people (GHSL 2025)
33,519 km²
area
11.4%
of Norway
58
units inside

01Map

Inside Vestland

The 58 ADM2 units of Vestland.

FIG 1 · 58 units inside Vestland
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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. 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

534,480

11.4% of Norway.

People · WorldPop 2025

507,878

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

ప్రాంతం

33,519 km²

16 people per km².

కోడ్

NO-46

Subdivision code as carried by the boundary source.

Low coastal zone

11,537

people on land at or below 10 m, 2.2% of the unit (GEBCO 2024 and GHSL 2025).

03Units

58 units inside Vestland

Each unit has its own page.

Boundary licences: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0) · Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Unit కోడ్ People (GHSL) People (WorldPop) Area km² Per km² Share Coast ≤ 10 m
Årdal nor – 5,412 4,655 971.06 6 1% 122
Askøy nor – 21,185 23,096 93.44 227 4% 228
Askvoll nor – 1,951 2,041 320.86 6 0.4% 16
Aurland nor – 1,055 1,027 1,459.48 1 0.2% 0
Austevoll nor – 1,182 1,554 101.38 12 0.2% 58
Austrheim nor – 166 1,431 46.37 4 0% 14
Balestrand nor – 615 1,084 426.81 1 0.1% 13
Bergen nor – 278,336 252,556 459.91 605 52.1% 7,912
Bømlo nor – 8,228 7,428 217.01 38 1.5% 373
Bremanger nor – 3,039 2,600 832.43 4 0.6% 31
Eid nor – 5,931 6,297 466.46 13 1.1% 128
Eidfjord nor – 399 274 1,483 0 0.1% 1
Etne nor – 4,256 3,631 730.87 6 0.8% 185
Fedje nor – 245 245 7.11 34 0% 0
Fitjar nor – 2,053 2,675 131.02 16 0.4% 78
Fjaler nor – 1,438 1,872 419.81 3 0.3% 25
Fjell nor – 18,689 22,689 131.42 142 3.5% 1,131
Flora nor – 763 1,161 668.14 1 0.1% 4
Førde nor – 12,823 13,601 581.76 22 2.4% 0
Fusa nor – 2,765 2,660 374.28 7 0.5% 37
Gaular nor – 2,254 2,908 578.44 4 0.4% 5
Gloppen nor – 5,231 5,251 1,026.14 5 1% 9
Granvin nor – 981 1,006 210.42 5 0.2% 12
Gulen nor – 780 1,216 581.91 1 0.1% 25
Høyanger nor – 4,191 3,349 900.8 5 0.8% 7
Hyllestad nor – 1,102 921 258.69 4 0.2% 3
Jølster nor – 3,040 3,113 667.5 5 0.6% 0
Jondal nor – 991 589 245.79 4 0.2% 3
Kvam nor – 5,950 6,247 612.74 10 1.1% 169
Kvinnherad nor – 7,507 4,889 1,080.31 7 1.4% 174
Lærdal nor – 2,301 2,056 1,336.29 2 0.4% 14
Leikanger nor – 1,164 1,006 179.39 6 0.2% 0
Lindås nor – 13,215 10,387 474.84 28 2.5% 524
Luster nor – 4,807 4,586 2,690.05 2 0.9% 104
Masfjorden nor – 870 940 553.61 2 0.2% 52
Meland nor – 6,072 7,141 90.54 67 1.1% 48
Modalen nor – 418 380 409.72 1 0.1% 2
Naustdal nor – 2,624 2,566 367.08 7 0.5% 0
Odda nor – 7,524 6,244 1,605.82 5 1.4% 50
Os nor – 11,598 12,390 133.08 87 2.2% 374
Osterøy nor – 7,529 6,149 255.31 29 1.4% 122
Øygarden nor – 613 783 50.62 12 0.1% 107
Radøy nor – 1,489 2,254 106.48 14 0.3% 66
Samnanger nor – 1,717 2,185 267.42 6 0.3% 4
Selje nor – 924 1,593 230.1 4 0.2% 19
Sogndal nor – 6,466 6,765 741.84 9 1.2% 26
Solund nor – 353 294 217.35 2 0.1% 20
Stord nor – 16,293 14,766 140.76 116 3.1% 520
Stryn nor – 6,658 5,766 1,371.73 5 1.2% 40
Sund nor – 4,739 5,531 91.12 52 0.9% 394
Sveio nor – 3,923 4,020 241.73 16 0.7% 140
Tysnes nor – 2,473 2,588 248.02 10 0.5% 22
Ullensvang nor – 3,253 2,906 1,392.19 2 0.6% 30
Ulvik nor – 1,131 977 718.03 2 0.2% 13
Vågsøy nor – 1,962 2,013 177.26 11 0.4% 42
Vaksdal nor – 3,262 2,006 710.8 5 0.6% 25
Vik nor – 2,603 2,237 831.53 3 0.5% 40
Voss nor – 15,649 14,939 1,795.38 9 2.9% 0
04బహిర్గతం

Open exposure layers

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

Urban areas
10.2 H3 cells
Ports
2 H3 cells
Airports
1 H3 cells
Major roads
1,894.5 H3 cells
Railways
241 H3 cells
Rivers and lakes
None at this resolution
05ప్రమాదం

Risk values

Values when released. Subnational risk values for Vestland publish with the edition from The Global Risks Index. Until then, run a scenario on open data for Norway.
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06Neighbours

Neighbouring units

07మూలాలు

Sources, credits and licences

ADM1 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen NOR ADM1, source: Kartverket, licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0) · source · represents 2022
ADM2 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen NOR ADM2, source: Geonorge, Mapping Authority of Norway, licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) · source · represents 2013
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.
దేశాలు
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.

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Avis en français

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