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Penza Oblast

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

Page GRX-RUS-REdition Baseline Edition 2026Evidence close 2026-09-30ISO RUS / RUStatus UN member stateValues not yet publishedMethod v1.0.0-draft
1,304,331
people (GHSL 2025)
43,215 km²
area
0.9%
of Russian Federation
30
units inside

01Ramani

Inside Penza Oblast

The 30 ADM2 units of Penza Oblast.

FIG 1 · 30 units inside Penza Oblast
Inapakia ramani

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

1,304,331

0.9% of Russian Federation.

Watu · WorldPop 2025

1,191,224

-9% against GHSL; the two grids differ in method.

Area

43,215 km²

30 people per km².

Code

RU-PNZ

Subdivision code as carried by the boundary source.

03Units

30 units inside Penza Oblast

Each unit has its own page.

Boundary licences: Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0.

Unit Code People (GHSL) People (WorldPop) Area km² Per km² Share Coast ≤ 10 m
Bashmakovsky District – 22,259 17,029 1,613 14 1.7% 0
Bekovsky District – 16,483 11,924 1,010.47 16 1.3% 0
Belinsky District – 27,348 21,997 2,124.49 13 2.1% 0
Bessonovsky District – 44,591 49,377 1,204.71 37 3.4% 0
Gorodishchensky District – 49,939 41,435 2,048.82 24 3.8% 0
Issinsky District – 10,667 7,075 924.26 12 0.8% 0
Kamensky District – 58,935 42,278 2,191.95 27 4.5% 0
Kameshkirsky District – 11,759 8,348 1,264.73 9 0.9% 0
Kolyshleysky District – 24,989 18,301 1,678.9 15 1.9% 0
Kuznetsk – 68,375 61,120 38.09 1,795 5.2% 0
Kuznetsky District – 44,160 42,336 2,070.73 21 3.4% 0
Lopatinsky District – 14,950 10,406 1,444.91 10 1.1% 0
Luninsky District – 19,121 14,339 1,699.41 11 1.5% 0
Maloserdobinsky District – 9,185 7,026 1,101.3 8 0.7% 0
Mokshansky District – 26,837 23,409 2,217.59 12 2.1% 0
Narovchatsky District – 11,309 8,761 953.55 12 0.9% 0
Neverkinsky District – 15,750 12,170 981.32 16 1.2% 0
Nikolsky District – 32,812 24,679 2,506.33 13 2.5% 0
Nizhnelomovsky District – 40,143 33,113 1,756.51 23 3.1% 0
Pachelmsky District – 15,291 11,417 1,320.58 12 1.2% 0
Penza – 505,913 503,341 301.27 1,679 38.8% 0
Penzensky District – 53,959 79,951 2,815.36 19 4.1% 0
Serdobsky District – 51,887 39,929 1,709.92 30 4% 0
Shemysheysky District – 16,644 12,834 1,585.72 10 1.3% 0
Sosnovoborsky District – 16,728 12,481 1,562.39 11 1.3% 0
Spassky District – 12,499 9,893 692.71 18 1% 0
Tamalinsky District – 15,634 11,166 1,233.4 13 1.2% 0
Vadinsky District – 9,286 5,909 1,034.67 9 0.7% 0
Zarechny – 33,377 33,377 27.45 1,216 2.6% 0
Zemetchinsky District – 23,500 15,804 2,100.29 11 1.8% 0
04Mfiduo

Open exposure layers

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

Urban areas
480.5 H3 cells
Bandari
None at this resolution
Viwanja vya ndege
None at this resolution
Major roads
1,461 H3 cells
Reli
811.1 H3 cells
Rivers and lakes
374.3 H3 cells
05Hatari

Risk values

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

Neighbouring units

07Vyanzo

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.
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.