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South Darfur

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

Map All 19 first-level units
Page GRX-SDN-REdition Baseline Edition 2026Evidence close 2026-09-30ISO SDN / SDStatus UN member stateValues not yet publishedMethod v1.0.0-draft
5,886,666
people (GHSL 2025)
86,170 km²
area
11.6%
of Sudan
21
units inside

01Map

Inside South Darfur

The 21 ADM2 units of South Darfur.

FIG 1 · 21 units inside South Darfur
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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

5,886,666

11.6% of Sudan.

People · WorldPop 2025

4,527,614

-23% against GHSL; the two grids differ in method.

பரப்பு

86,170 km²

68 people per km².

குறியீடு

SD-DS

Subdivision code as carried by the boundary source.

03Humanitarian data

South 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

3,866,716

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

Poverty headcount · 2014-12-31

72.2%

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

Rainfall · 2026-10-10

76%

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

04Units

21 units inside South Darfur

Each unit has its own page.

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
Al Radoum – 123,861 94,243 25,632.09 5 2.1% 0
Al Wihda – 7,567 29,866 1,081.14 7 0.1% 0
As Salam – SD – 398,087 249,450 5,113.65 78 6.8% 0
As Sunta – 82,027 63,633 3,512.2 23 1.4% 0
Beliel – 121,111 238,037 2,392.41 51 2.1% 0
Buram – 753,382 105,371 3,596.33 209 12.8% 0
Damso – 348,914 57,785 1,720.9 203 5.9% 0
Ed Al Fursan – 680,405 404,362 4,451.36 153 11.6% 0
Gereida – 270,739 117,514 2,418.24 112 4.6% 0
Kas – 490,720 275,680 3,507.89 140 8.3% 0
Kateila – 148,715 80,847 2,590.64 57 2.5% 0
Kubum – 361,803 286,353 3,019.67 120 6.1% 0
Mershing – 37,303 100,060 1,144.66 33 0.6% 0
Nitega – 23,563 121,695 2,950.63 8 0.4% 0
Nyala Janoub – 576,935 858,515 258.68 2,230 9.8% 0
Nyala Shimal – 530,275 848,531 3,159.69 168 9% 0
Rehaid Albirdi – 244,201 196,859 7,506.45 33 4.1% 0
Sharg Aj Jabal – 62,322 162,304 2,910.82 21 1.1% 0
Shattaya – 14,457 38,829 1,837.12 8 0.2% 0
Tulus – 492,610 130,716 2,157.85 228 8.4% 0
Um Dafoug – 117,670 66,966 5,206.73 23 2% 0
05வெளிப்பாடு

Open exposure layers

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

Urban areas
51.4 H3 cells
Ports
None at this resolution
Airports
None at this resolution
Major roads
1,211.7 H3 cells
Railways
53.8 H3 cells
Rivers and lakes
None at this resolution
06இடர்

Risk values

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

Neighbouring units

08மூலங்கள்

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.
நாடுகள்
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.

நிலை

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