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North Darfur

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

Page GRX-SDN-REdition Baseline Edition 2026Evidence close 2026-09-30ISO SDN / SDStatus UN member stateValues not yet publishedMethod v1.0.0-draft
4,388,148
people (GHSL 2025)
318,305 km²
area
8.6%
of Sudan
17
units inside

01Ramani

Inside North Darfur

The 17 ADM2 units of North Darfur.

FIG 1 · 17 units inside North Darfur
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. 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.

Watu · GHSL 2025

4,388,148

8.6% of Sudan.

Watu · WorldPop 2025

2,525,428

-42% against GHSL; the two grids differ in method.

Area

318,305 km²

14 people per km².

Code

SD-DN

Subdivision code as carried by the boundary source.

03Humanitarian data

North Darfur 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 · 2024-12-31

3,350,597

people. UNFPA · Creative Commons Attribution International (CC BY).

Poverty headcount · 2014-12-31

83.7%

of people in multidimensional poverty. Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative · Public Domain / No restrictions (CC0).

Rainfall · 2026-10-10

94%

of the long-term average, latest dekad. WFP – World Food Programme · Creative Commons Attribution International (CC BY).

04Units

17 units inside North Darfur

Each unit has its own page.

Boundary licences: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO)

Unit Code People (GHSL) People (WorldPop) Area km² Per km² Share Coast ≤ 10 m
Al Fasher – 855,339 777,793 8,533.98 100 19.5% 0
Al Koma – 18,629 10,440 778.73 24 0.4% 0
Al Lait – 172,966 137,928 2,806.07 62 3.9% 0
Al Malha – 307,500 94,495 195,270.3 2 7% 0
As Serief – 318,472 94,400 6,224.11 51 7.3% 0
At Tawisha – 120,549 161,101 10,909.46 11 2.7% 0
At Tina – 101,215 46,265 5,643.7 18 2.3% 0
Dar As Salam – 116,861 118,376 2,980.54 39 2.7% 0
Kebkabiya – 852,089 148,211 4,461.62 191 19.4% 0
Kelemando – 145,285 86,962 7,252.38 20 3.3% 0
Kernoi – 28,276 42,404 8,644.71 3 0.6% 0
Kutum – 263,667 193,245 14,051.35 19 6% 0
Melit – 417,726 230,654 16,175.56 26 9.5% 0
Saraf Omra – 400,503 88,530 1,489.14 269 9.1% 0
Tawila – 57,959 91,394 3,495.88 17 1.3% 0
Um Baru – 22,319 32,239 16,451.27 1 0.5% 0
Um Kadadah – 188,792 170,994 13,138.45 14 4.3% 0
05Mfiduo

Open exposure layers

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

Urban areas
28.2 H3 cells
Bandari
None at this resolution
Viwanja vya ndege
None at this resolution
Major roads
1,738.6 H3 cells
Reli
None at this resolution
Rivers and lakes
None at this resolution
06Hatari

Risk values

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

Neighbouring units

08Vyanzo

Sources, credits and licences

ADM1 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen SDN ADM1, source: Information Management Working Group (IMWG), OCHA ROSEA, licence: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO) · source · represents 2020
ADM2 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen SDN ADM2, source: OCHA ROSEA, Information Management Working Group, licence: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO) · source · represents 2020
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.