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Balochistan

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

Page GRX-PAK-REdition Baseline Edition 2026Evidence close 2026-09-30ISO PAK / PKStatus UN member stateValues not yet publishedMethod v1.0.0-draft
9,023,408
people (GHSL 2025)
353,034 km²
area
3.6%
of Pakistan
27
units inside

01Map

Inside Balochistan

The 27 ADM2 units of Balochistan.

FIG 1 · 27 units inside Balochistan
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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

9,023,408

3.6% of Pakistan.

People · WorldPop 2025

14,966,892

+66% against GHSL; the two grids differ in method.

பரப்பு

353,034 km²

26 people per km².

குறியீடு

PK-BA

Subdivision code as carried by the boundary source.

Low coastal zone

75,247

people on land at or below 10 m, 0.8% of the unit (GEBCO 2024 and GHSL 2025).

03Humanitarian data

Balochistan 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.

Poverty headcount · 2018-12-31

65.3%

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

Rainfall · 2026-10-10

101%

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

04Units

27 units inside Balochistan

Each unit has its own page.

Boundary licences: Public Domain

Unit குறியீடு People (GHSL) People (WorldPop) Area km² Per km² Share Coast ≤ 10 m
Awaran – 144,940 152,210 24,680.67 6 1.6% 16
Barkhan – 107,380 169,570 3,003.71 36 1.2% 0
Chagai – 163,524 284,196 47,455.26 3 1.8% 0
Dera Bugti – 291,193 513,350 9,428.43 31 3.2% 0
Gwadar – 190,345 261,439 13,183.32 14 2.1% 66,535
Jafarabad – 813,728 906,368 2,644.53 308 9% 0
Jhal Magsi – 156,529 215,805 3,850.76 41 1.7% 0
Kachhi – 378,050 439,459 8,708.91 43 4.2% 0
Kalat – 306,335 501,683 13,517.53 23 3.4% 0
Kech – 526,780 1,080,017 24,850.61 21 5.8% 0
Kharan – 273,902 403,755 47,377.34 6 3% 0
Khuzdar – 530,909 920,852 29,667.31 18 5.9% 0
Kohlu – 123,702 258,432 9,147.03 14 1.4% 0
Lasbela – 391,798 684,416 15,681.57 25 4.3% 11,105
Loralai – 396,502 585,549 9,895.31 40 4.4% 0
Mastung – 194,833 292,329 5,693.15 34 2.2% 0
Musakhel – 149,377 190,814 4,977.2 30 1.7% 0
Nasirabad – 497,499 845,209 3,194.6 156 5.5% 0
Nushki – 131,527 217,551 6,505.56 20 1.5% 0
Panjgur – 300,413 370,623 18,388.66 16 3.3% 0
Pishin – 444,341 688,205 5,036.34 88 4.9% 0
Qilla Abdullah – 555,547 1,024,160 7,060.11 79 6.2% 0
Qilla Saifullah – 219,627 385,606 11,846.77 19 2.4% 0
Quetta – 1,116,199 2,711,040 2,811.04 397 12.4% 0
Sibi – 216,063 220,125 6,399.76 34 2.4% 0
Zhob – 357,172 550,685 16,617.18 21 4% 0
Ziarat – 45,194 93,467 1,412.93 32 0.5% 0
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
518.3 H3 cells
Ports
None at this resolution
Airports
2 H3 cells
Major roads
5,749.3 H3 cells
Railways
1,383.3 H3 cells
Rivers and lakes
None at this resolution
06இடர்

Risk values

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

Neighbouring units

08மூலங்கள்

Sources, credits and licences

ADM1 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen PAK ADM1, source: geoBoundaries, Wikipedia, licence: Public Domain · source · represents 2019
ADM2 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen PAK ADM2, source: geoBoundaries, Wikipedia, licence: Public Domain · source · represents 2019
ADM3 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen PAK ADM3, source: Pathways Data Pvt. Ltd., https//www.pbs.gov.pk/the network's own records/ © 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.
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.