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Saudi Arabia: 13 provinces, states and territories

Every administrative level, from the 13 first-level units down to ADM2, on a terrain map with people, density and sources.

Map All units Country map
Page GRX-SAU-REdition Baseline Edition 2026Evidence close 2026-09-30ISO SAU / SAStatus UN member stateValues not yet publishedMethod v1.0.0-draft
13
first-level units
160
units at 2 levels
37,489,332
people (GHSL 2025)
Terrain
open relief

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Saudi Arabia by province, state and territory

13 first-level units and 147 second-level units inside them, raised by people per km² over the population grid and terrain. Select a unit to drill in or open its page.

FIG 1 · 13 first-level units of Saudi Arabia
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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.
02Levels

Every administrative level of Saudi Arabia

Each level comes from the boundary source admitted for that country and level, with its own licence.

ADM1
13 first-level units · geoBoundaries gbOpen · Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0 · each with its own page
ADM2
147 second-level units · geoBoundaries gbOpen · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 · each with its own page
03Units

All 13 first-level units

Two population estimates from open grids, summed inside each boundary. The CSV carries the first two levels; each unit page carries the levels below it.

Boundary licences: Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0 · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0.

Unit Ikhowudi People (GHSL) People (WorldPop) Area km² Per km² Share Coast ≤ 10 m
‘Asir Region SA-14 2,101,552 2,018,861 77,475 27 5.6% 0
Al Bahah Region SA-11 413,669 308,556 10,347 40 1.1% 0
Al Jawf Region SA-12 485,382 657,517 81,940 6 1.3% 0
Al Madinah Region SA-03 2,520,304 2,260,790 147,197 17 6.7% 131,768
Al-Qassim Region SA-05 1,390,754 1,365,255 68,434 20 3.7% 0
Eastern Region SA-04 5,381,786 5,052,691 559,500 10 14.4% 1,888,623
Hayel Region SA-06 574,690 820,155 112,009 5 1.5% 0
Jazan Region SA-09 1,493,347 1,483,801 15,702 95 4% 105,862
Makkah Region SA-02 10,086,750 8,325,207 138,215 73 26.9% 1,270,550
Najran Region SA-10 774,751 627,167 88,677 9 2.1% 0
Northern Borders Region SA-08 416,056 399,907 115,286 4 1.1% 0
Riyadh Region SA-01 10,796,028 9,338,455 376,464 29 28.8% 0
Tabuk Region SA-07 1,054,263 888,411 138,114 8 2.8% 13,272
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Subnational risk products

Values when released. Subnational risk values for Saudi Arabia publish with the edition from The Global Risks Index, with intervals and sources. Until then these pages show boundaries, people and exposure only.
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Sources, credits and licences

ADM1 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen SAU 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 SAU ADM2, source: geoBoundaries, OpenStreetMap © OpenStreetMap contributors, licence: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 (share-alike: this boundary layer is offered under the same licence) · source · represents 2021. Offered under the same licence (Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0), 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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