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Gaza

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

Page GRX-PSE-REdition Baseline Edition 2026Evidence close 2026-09-30ISO PSE / PSStatus UN observer stateValues not yet publishedMethod v1.0.0-draft
1,503,701
people (GHSL 2025)
365 km²
area
28.3%
of State of Palestine
5
units inside

01Ramani

Inside Gaza

The 5 ADM2 units of Gaza.

FIG 1 · 5 units inside Gaza
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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.

Watu · GHSL 2025

1,503,701

28.3% of State of Palestine.

Watu · WorldPop 2025

1,756,281

+17% against GHSL; the two grids differ in method.

Area

365 km²

4,120 people per km².

Code

PS-GZZ

Subdivision code as carried by the boundary source.

Ukanda wa pwani ulio chini

34,556

people on land at or below 10 m, 2.3% of the unit (GEBCO 2024 and GHSL 2025).

03Units

5 units inside Gaza

Each unit has its own page.

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

Unit Code People (GHSL) People (WorldPop) Area km² Per km² Share Coast ≤ 10 m
Deir Al Balah PS-DEB 176,061 192,702 56.83 3,098 11.7% 15,880
Gaza PS-GZA* 147,519 199,593 74.62 1,977 9.8% 2,143
Khan Yunis PS-KYS 296,372 339,434 109.56 2,705 19.7% 9,598
North Gaza PS-NGZ 642,343 709,245 60.66 10,589 42.7% 0
Rafah PS-RFH 241,405 315,307 63.38 3,809 16.1% 8,467
04Exposure

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
Bandari
None at this resolution
Viwanja vya ndege
None at this resolution
Major roads
None at this resolution
Reli
None at this resolution
Rivers and lakes
None at this resolution
05Hatari

Risk values

Values when released. Subnational risk values for Gaza publish with the edition from The Global Risks Index. Until then, run a scenario on open data for State of Palestine.
06Vyanzo

Sources, credits and licences

ADM1 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen PSE ADM1, source: geoBoundaries, Open Data Watch, licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0) · source · represents 2021
ADM2 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen PSE ADM2, source: Open Data Watch, licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (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.
Nchi
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.