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Buryatia

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
929,968
people (GHSL 2025)
350,322 km²
area
0.7%
of Russian Federation
23
units inside

01Imephu

Inside Buryatia

The 23 ADM2 units of Buryatia.

FIG 1 · 23 units inside Buryatia
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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.

Abantu · GHSL 2025

929,968

0.7% of Russian Federation.

Abantu · WorldPop 2025

967,818

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

Area

350,322 km²

3 people per km².

Code

RU-BU

Subdivision code as carried by the boundary source.

Indawo esogwini ephansi

13

people on land at or below 10 m, 0.0% of the unit (GEBCO 2024 and GHSL 2025).

03Units

23 units inside Buryatia

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
Barguzinsky Rayon – 23,670 18,128 16,406.14 1 2.5% 0
Bauntovsky Rayon – 11,850 7,372 66,489.88 0 1.3% 0
Bichursky Rayon – 23,252 19,011 6,204.22 4 2.5% 0
Dzhidinsky Rayon – 30,339 17,786 8,618 4 3.3% 0
Ivolginsky District – 70,684 105,496 2,676.38 26 7.6% 0
Kabansky District – 58,675 44,823 13,393.73 4 6.3% 10
Khorinsky Rayon – 18,764 15,482 13,503.1 1 2% 0
Kizhinginsky Rayon – 16,697 13,561 7,727.52 2 1.8% 0
Kurumkansky Rayon – 15,067 12,023 12,430.92 1 1.6% 0
Kyakhtinsky Rayon – 45,690 29,091 4,622.28 10 4.9% 0
Mukhorshibirsky Rayon – 23,536 18,935 4,509.64 5 2.5% 0
Muysky Rayon – 13,152 6,719 25,153.43 1 1.4% 0
Okinsky Rayon – 5,510 5,255 26,471.07 0 0.6% 0
Pribaykalsky Rayon – 25,701 22,175 15,441.66 2 2.8% 2
Selenginsky Rayon – 46,936 38,144 8,229.64 6 5% 0
Severo-Baykalsky Rayon – 15,654 10,587 55,415.57 0 1.7% 1
Tarbagataysky Rayon – 16,409 31,258 3,290.12 5 1.8% 0
Tunkinsky District – 24,541 19,421 11,737.86 2 2.6% 0
Yeravninsky Rayon – 16,783 15,964 25,642.34 1 1.8% 0
Zaigrayevsky Rayon – 50,603 57,956 6,611.12 8 5.4% 0
Zakamensky Rayon – 29,121 22,307 15,281.82 2 3.1% 0
городской округ Северобайк – 24,128 22,097 107.2 225 2.6% 0
городской округ Улан-Удэ – 323,208 414,228 364.65 886 34.8% 0
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
385.6 H3 cells
Amachweba
None at this resolution
Izikhumulo zezindiza
None at this resolution
Major roads
4,361.1 H3 cells
Ojantshi
1,344.8 H3 cells
Rivers and lakes
1,484.1 H3 cells
05Ubungozi

Risk values

Values when released. Subnational risk values for Buryatia 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

07Imithombo

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.
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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