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Kabardino-Balkaria

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

Map All 83 first-level units
Page GRX-RUS-REdition Baseline Edition 2026Evidence close 2026-09-30ISO RUS / RUStatus UN member stateValues not yet publishedMethod v1.0.0-draft
825,325
people (GHSL 2025)
12,438 km²
area
0.6%
of Russian Federation
13
units inside

01Map

Inside Kabardino-Balkaria

The 13 ADM2 units of Kabardino-Balkaria.

FIG 1 · 13 units inside Kabardino-Balkaria
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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.

People · GHSL 2025

825,325

0.6% of Russian Federation.

People · WorldPop 2025

926,615

+12% against GHSL; the two grids differ in method.

વિસ્તાર

12,438 km²

66 people per km².

કોડ

RU-KB

Subdivision code as carried by the boundary source.

03Units

13 units inside Kabardino-Balkaria

Each unit has its own page.

Boundary licences: Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0.

Unit કોડ People (GHSL) People (WorldPop) Area km² Per km² Share Coast ≤ 10 m
Baksansky District – 41,480 68,826 820.67 51 5% 0
Chegemsky District – 66,091 75,619 1,492.07 44 8% 0
Chereksky District – 29,600 35,451 2,190.88 14 3.6% 0
Elbrussky District – 32,646 36,589 1,836.98 18 4% 0
Leskensky District – 25,215 30,178 527.21 48 3.1% 0
Maysky District – 40,329 42,442 384.61 105 4.9% 0
Prokhladnensky District – 75,930 86,109 1,338.66 57 9.2% 0
Prokhladny – 22,880 24,619 36.58 625 2.8% 0
Tersky District – 51,456 56,617 895.43 57 6.2% 0
Urvansky District – 63,223 74,472 456.27 139 7.7% 0
Zolsky District – 42,389 47,582 2,135.55 20 5.1% 0
городской округ Баксан – 71,408 61,811 188.54 379 8.7% 0
городской округ Нальчик – 262,678 286,302 134.24 1,957 31.8% 0
04સંપર્કમાં આવવું

Open exposure layers

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

Urban areas
839.1 H3 cells
Ports
None at this resolution
Airports
None at this resolution
Major roads
936.9 H3 cells
Railways
288.9 H3 cells
Rivers and lakes
None at this resolution
05જોખમ

Risk values

Values when released. Subnational risk values for Kabardino-Balkaria publish with the edition from The Global Risks Index. Until then, run a scenario on open data for Russian Federation.
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06Neighbours

Neighbouring units

07સ્ત્રોતો

Sources, credits and licences

ADM1 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen RUS 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 RUS ADM2, 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.
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.
દેશો
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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Avis en français

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