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Northern Province

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

Page GRX-RWA-REdition Baseline Edition 2026Evidence close 2026-09-30ISO RWA / RWStatus UN member stateValues not yet publishedMethod v1.0.0-draft
1,924,045
people (GHSL 2025)
3,287 km²
area
12.7%
of Rwanda
5
units inside

01نقشہ

Inside Northern Province

The 5 ADM2 units of Northern Province.

FIG 1 · 5 units inside Northern Province
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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. 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.

People · GHSL 2025

1,924,045

12.7% of Rwanda.

People · WorldPop 2025

2,166,346

+13% against GHSL; the two grids differ in method.

رقبہ

3,287 km²

585 people per km².

کوڈ

RW-03

Subdivision code as carried by the boundary source.

03Humanitarian data

Northern 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 · 2023-12-31

329,813

people. UNFPA · Creative Commons Attribution for Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY-IGO).

04Units

5 units inside Northern Province

Each unit has its own page.

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

Unit کوڈ People (GHSL) People (WorldPop) Area km² Per km² Share Coast ≤ 10 m
Burera – 366,457 418,590 648.1 565 19% 0
Gakenke – 343,288 367,131 707.29 485 17.8% 0
Gicumbi – 415,545 452,269 832.19 499 21.6% 0
Musanze – 450,462 510,196 529.26 851 23.4% 0
Rulindo – 348,292 418,160 570.13 611 18.1% 0
05زد

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
بندرگاہیں
None at this resolution
Airports
None at this resolution
Major roads
None at this resolution
Railways
None at this resolution
Rivers and lakes
None at this resolution
06خطرہ

Risk values

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

Neighbouring units

08ماخذات

Sources, credits and licences

ADM1 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen RWA ADM1, source: The Rwanda Geo Portal, licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0) · source · represents 2020
ADM2 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen RWA ADM2, source: Open Data Rwanda, licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) · source · represents 2012
ADM3 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen RWA ADM3, source: Open Data Rwanda, licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) · source · represents 2012
ADM4 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen RWA ADM4, source: Open Data Rwanda, licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) · source · represents 2012
ADM5 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen RWA ADM5, source: The World Bank, licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) · source · represents 2012
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.
ممالک
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.