Canterbury Region
First-level unit, New Zealand: people, area, the units inside and neighbours, with risk values when released.
Inside Canterbury Region
The 10 ADM2 units of Canterbury Region.
People, area and density
Source observations from open grids summed inside the boundary; not index values.
649,158
13.6% of New Zealand.
659,586
+2% against GHSL; the two grids differ in method.
45,140 km²
14 people per km².
NZ-CAN
Subdivision code as carried by the boundary source.
154,924
people on land at or below 10 m, 23.9% of the unit (GEBCO 2024 and GHSL 2025).
10 units inside Canterbury Region
Each unit has its own page.
Boundary licences: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
| Unit | Code | People (GHSL) | People (WorldPop) | Area km² | Per km² | Share | Coast ≤ 10 m |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ashburton District | – | 40,914 | 36,274 | 6,180.27 | 7 | 6.1% | 62 |
| Christchurch City | – | 378,790 | 379,475 | 1,485.35 | 255 | 56.5% | 119,126 |
| Hurunui District | – | 14,193 | 13,801 | 8,647.89 | 2 | 2.1% | 323 |
| Kaikoura District | – | 2,003 | 2,126 | 2,046.11 | 1 | 0.3% | 189 |
| Mackenzie District | – | 5,201 | 5,649 | 7,425.64 | 1 | 0.8% | 0 |
| Selwyn District | – | 80,177 | 94,480 | 6,545.47 | 12 | 12% | 5,995 |
| Timaru District | – | 48,528 | 46,296 | 2,728.27 | 18 | 7.2% | 5,395 |
| Waimakariri District | – | 68,730 | 71,018 | 2,214.81 | 31 | 10.3% | 19,856 |
| Waimate District | – | 9,169 | 8,649 | 3,575.57 | 3 | 1.4% | 185 |
| Waitaki District | – | 22,422 | 23,229 | 7,198.98 | 3 | 3.3% | 627 |
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
- Ports
- None at this resolution
- Airports
- 1 H3 cells
- Major roads
- 964 H3 cells
- Railways
- 463.9 H3 cells
- Rivers and lakes
- 815.4 H3 cells
Risk values
Neighbouring units
- NZ-WTCWest Coast Region
- NZ-OTAOtago Region
- NZ-TASTasman Region
- NZ-MBHMarlborough Region
Sources, credits and licences
- ADM1 boundaries
- geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen NZL ADM1, source: NZ Stats, licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) · source · represents 2017
- ADM2 boundaries
- geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen NZL ADM2, source: Stats NZ, licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) · source · represents 2021
- ADM3 boundaries
- geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen NZL ADM3, source: NZ Stats, licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) · source · represents 2017
- 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.
- Countries
- 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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