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Eastern Region

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

Map All 13 first-level units
Page GRX-SAU-REdition Baseline Edition 2026Evidence close 2026-09-30ISO SAU / SAStatus UN member stateValues not yet publishedMethod v1.0.0-draft
5,381,786
people (GHSL 2025)
559,500 km²
area
14.4%
of Saudi Arabia
11
units inside

01Map

Inside Eastern Region

The 11 ADM2 units of Eastern Region.

FIG 1 · 11 units inside Eastern Region
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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

5,381,786

14.4% of Saudi Arabia.

People · WorldPop 2025

5,052,691

-6% against GHSL; the two grids differ in method.

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559,500 km²

10 people per km².

Ikhowudi

SA-04

Subdivision code as carried by the boundary source.

Low coastal zone

1,888,623

people on land at or below 10 m, 35.1% of the unit (GEBCO 2024 and GHSL 2025).

03Units

11 units inside Eastern Region

Each unit has its own page.

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
Abqaiq Governorate – 48,375 70,473 6,418.93 8 1.5% 16,614
Al Ahsa Governorate – 1,210,120 1,192,197 241,797.87 5 37.2% 70
Al Jubayl Governorate – 422,941 489,303 6,478.66 65 13% 294,441
Al Khafji Governorate – 98,315 81,704 8,221.08 12 3% 81,521
Al Khubar Governorate – 92,269 186,768 198.19 466 2.8% 59,393
Al Nuayriyah Governorate – 49,635 69,764 16,827.06 3 1.5% 445
Al Qatif Governorate – 748,553 621,398 641.11 1,168 23% 447,846
Al Udayd Governorate – 41,099 8,133 171,322.53 0 1.3% 7,325
Hafar Al Batin Governorate – 479,123 505,444 46,422.35 10 14.7% 0
Qaryah Al Ulya Governorate – 30,199 23,586 24,543.73 1 0.9% 0
Ras Tannurah Governorate – 34,812 35,146 243.52 143 1.1% 26,054
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Open exposure layers

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

Urban areas
619.6 H3 cells
Ports
2 H3 cells
Airports
None at this resolution
Major roads
5,306.2 H3 cells
Railways
293 H3 cells
Rivers and lakes
None at this resolution
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Risk values

Values when released. Subnational risk values for Eastern Region publish with the edition from The Global Risks Index. Until then, run a scenario on open data for Saudi Arabia.
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06Neighbours

Neighbouring units

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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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