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Palau: 16 provinces, states and territories

Every administrative level, from the 16 first-level units down to ADM2, on a terrain map with people, density and sources.

Page GRX-PLW-REdition Baseline Edition 2026Evidence close 2026-09-30ISO PLW / PWStatus UN member stateValues not yet publishedMethod v1.0.0-draft
16
first-level units
93
units at 2 levels
6,359
people (GHSL 2025)
Terrain
open relief

01Imephu

Palau by province, state and territory

16 first-level units and 77 second-level units inside them, raised by people per km² over the population grid and terrain. Select a unit to drill in or open its page.

FIG 1 · 16 first-level units of Palau
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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.
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Every administrative level of Palau

Each level comes from the boundary source admitted for that country and level, with its own licence.

ADM1
16 first-level units · geoBoundaries gbOpen · Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0 · each with its own page
ADM2
77 second-level units · geoBoundaries gbOpen · Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0) · each with its own page
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All 16 first-level units

Two population estimates from open grids, summed inside each boundary. The CSV carries the first two levels; each unit page carries the levels below it.

Boundary licences: Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0 · Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)

Unit Code People (GHSL) People (WorldPop) Area km² Per km² Share Coast ≤ 10 m
Aimeliik PW-002 4 0 46 0 0.1% 0
Airai PW-004 3,504 54 57 61 55.1% 280
Angaur PW-010 0 0 8 0 0% 0
Hatohobei PW-050 0 0 721 0 0% 0
Kayangel PW-100 0 0 1 0 0% 0
Koror PW-150 60 0 45 1 0.9% 0
Melekeok PW-212 0 0 25 0 0% 0
Ngaraard PW-214 174 112 34 5 2.7% 9
Ngarchelong PW-218 1,331 64 11 121 20.9% 84
Ngardmau PW-222 6 27 33 0 0.1% 0
Ngatpang PW-224 1,009 18 32 32 15.9% 71
Ngchesar PW-226 20 64 42 0 0.3% 0
Ngeremlengui PW-227 91 195 67 1 1.4% 8
Ngiwal PW-228 100 6,586 17 6 1.6% 0
Peleliu PW-350 18 0 22 1 0.3% 0
Sonsorol PW-370 42 0 1 42 0.7% 0
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Subnational risk products

Values when released. Subnational risk values for Palau publish with the edition from The Global Risks Index, with intervals and sources. Until then these pages show boundaries, people and exposure only.
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Sources, credits and licences

ADM1 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen PLW 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 PLW ADM2, source: Pacific Data Hub, SPC Statistics for Development Division (SDD), licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0) · source · represents 2015
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.
Amazwe
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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