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Morobe Province

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

Page GRX-PNG-REdition Baseline Edition 2026Evidence close 2026-09-30ISO PNG / PGStatus UN member stateValues not yet publishedMethod v1.0.0-draft
773,468
people (GHSL 2025)
33,930 km²
area
7.9%
of Papua New Guinea
9
units inside

01মানচিত্র

Inside Morobe Province

The 9 ADM2 units of Morobe Province.

FIG 1 · 9 units inside Morobe Province
মানচিত্র লোড হচ্ছে

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.

মানুষ · GHSL 2025

773,468

7.9% of Papua New Guinea.

মানুষ · WorldPop 2025

803,434

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

Area

33,930 km²

23 people per km².

Code

PG-MPL

Subdivision code as carried by the boundary source.

নিম্ন উপকূলীয় অঞ্চল

25,495

people on land at or below 10 m, 3.3% of the unit (GEBCO 2024 and GHSL 2025).

03Humanitarian data

Morobe Province 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 · 2011-12-31

674,810

people. OCHA Field Information Services Section (FISS) · Creative Commons Attribution for Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY-IGO).

Poverty headcount · 2018-12-31

44.9%

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

Rainfall · 2026-10-10

36%

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

04Units

9 units inside Morobe Province

Each unit has its own page.

Boundary licences: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO)

Unit Code People (GHSL) People (WorldPop) Area km² Per km² Share Coast ≤ 10 m
Bulolo District – 129,223 143,730 8,800.9 15 16.7% 0
Finschafen District – 48,216 58,473 2,426.81 20 6.2% 274
Huon District – 100,537 93,510 5,656.77 18 13% 968
Kabwum District – 49,980 43,297 3,536.75 14 6.5% 0
Lae District – 148,738 169,385 131.28 1,133 19.2% 23,548
Markham District – 83,966 74,508 4,507.26 19 10.9% 0
Menyamya District – 101,539 105,978 3,690.26 28 13.1% 0
Nawae District – 57,738 62,911 2,512.85 23 7.5% 406
Tawae/Siassi District – 53,530 51,642 2,667.31 20 6.9% 396
05উন্মুক্ততা

Open exposure layers

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

Urban areas
13.6 H3 cells
বন্দর
1 H3 cells
বিমানবন্দর
None at this resolution
Major roads
273.3 H3 cells
রেলপথ
None at this resolution
Rivers and lakes
None at this resolution
06ঝুঁকি

Risk values

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

Neighbouring units

08উৎস

Sources, credits and licences

ADM1 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen PNG ADM1, source: Papua New Guinea National Statistics Office, OCHA ROAP, licence: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO) · source · represents 2019
ADM2 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen PNG ADM2, source: OCHA ROAP, Papua New Guinea National Statistics Office, licence: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO) · source · represents 2019
ADM3 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen PNG ADM3, source: Papua New Guinea National Statistics Office, OCHA ROAP, licence: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO) · source · represents 2019
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.
দেশ
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.