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Sudan: 19 provinces, states and territories

Every administrative level, from the 19 first-level units down to ADM2, on a terrain map with people, density and sources.

Page GRX-SDN-REdition Baseline Edition 2026Evidence close 2026-09-30ISO SDN / SDStatus UN member stateValues not yet publishedMethod v1.0.0-draft
19
first-level units
208
units at 2 levels
50,744,133
people (GHSL 2025)
Terrain
open relief

01Map

Sudan by province, state and territory

19 first-level units and 189 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 · 19 first-level units of Sudan
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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 Sudan

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

ADM1
19 first-level units · geoBoundaries gbOpen · Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO) · each with its own page
ADM2
189 second-level units · geoBoundaries gbOpen · Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO) · each with its own page
03Units

All 19 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: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO)

Unit குறியீடு People (GHSL) People (WorldPop) Area km² Per km² Share Coast ≤ 10 m
Abyei PCA N/A 32,047 136,741 10,577 3 0.1% 0
Blue Nile SD-NB 1,490,816 1,328,811 38,322 39 2.9% 0
Central Darfur SD-DC 674,550 942,419 31,082 22 1.3% 0
East Darfur SD-DE 2,721,896 1,766,691 50,978 53 5.4% 0
Gedaref SD-GD 1,686,273 2,921,400 59,760 28 3.3% 0
Gezira SD-GZ 5,080,799 6,071,302 27,248 186 10% 0
Kassala SD-KA 2,421,872 3,027,551 48,865 50 4.8% 0
Khartoum SD-KH 8,689,670 10,476,499 21,293 408 17.1% 0
North Darfur SD-DN 4,388,148 2,525,428 318,305 14 8.6% 0
North Kordofan SD-KN 3,338,530 2,204,748 186,825 18 6.6% 0
Northern SD-NO 1,045,696 1,126,893 365,201 3 2.1% 0
Red Sea SD-RS 3,159,088 1,579,152 216,248 15 6.2% 302,247
River Nile SD-NR 1,756,611 1,669,668 130,815 13 3.5% 0
Sennar SD-SI 1,854,641 2,498,950 39,407 47 3.7% 0
South Darfur SD-DS 5,886,666 4,527,614 86,170 68 11.6% 0
South Kordofan SD-KS 960,252 1,545,960 79,645 12 1.9% 0
West Darfur SD-DW 796,445 1,201,439 22,340 36 1.6% 0
West Kordofan SD-GK 2,062,035 2,294,122 106,731 19 4.1% 0
White Nile SD-NW 2,698,098 3,074,495 38,135 71 5.3% 0
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Subnational risk products

Values when released. Subnational risk values for Sudan 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 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.
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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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