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Somalia: 18 provinces, states and territories

Every administrative level, from the 18 first-level units down to ADM2, on a terrain map with people, density and sources.

Page GRX-SOM-REdition Baseline Edition 2026Evidence close 2026-09-30ISO SOM / SOStatus UN member stateValues not yet publishedMethod v1.0.0-draft
18
first-level units
136
units at 2 levels
18,987,284
people (GHSL 2025)
Terrain
open relief

01Map

Somalia by province, state and territory

18 first-level units and 118 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 · 18 first-level units of Somalia
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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 Somalia

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

ADM1
18 first-level units · geoBoundaries gbOpen · Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0 · each with its own page
ADM2
118 second-level units · geoBoundaries gbOpen · Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0) · each with its own page
03Units

All 18 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 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)

Unit Ikhowudi People (GHSL) People (WorldPop) Area km² Per km² Share Coast ≤ 10 m
Awdal SO-AW 554,935 595,682 15,935 35 2.9% 11,635
Bakool SO-BK 599,053 493,249 25,825 23 3.2% 0
Banadir SO-BN 2,943,783 771,322 210 14,018 15.5% 177,670
Bari SO-BR 707,085 1,294,599 68,507 10 3.7% 75,488
Bay SO-BY 1,188,177 1,223,238 44,132 27 6.3% 0
Galgaduud SO-GA 842,586 920,719 50,920 17 4.4% 3,608
Gedo SO-GE 643,478 926,408 45,486 14 3.4% 0
Hiiraan SO-HI 693,605 482,158 34,720 20 3.7% 0
Lower Juba SO-JH 598,501 1,072,098 48,181 12 3.2% 255,333
Lower Shebelle SO-SH 3,867,372 3,518,308 25,773 150 20.4% 47,440
Middle Juba SO-JD 442,312 384,471 18,859 23 2.3% 7
Middle Shebelle SO-SD 1,277,362 1,562,685 18,576 69 6.7% 9,382
Mudug SO-MU 739,167 1,726,906 59,185 12 3.9% 2,795
Nugaal SO-NU 235,155 743,163 27,657 9 1.2% 348
Sanaag SO-SA 575,951 397,868 54,118 11 3% 1,749
Sool SO-SO 283,549 614,365 37,474 8 1.5% 0
Togdheer SO-TO 785,881 855,186 34,285 23 4.1% 0
Woqooyi Galbeed SO-WO 2,009,332 1,406,845 28,252 71 10.6% 15,809
04Umngcipheko

Subnational risk products

Values when released. Subnational risk values for Somalia publish with the edition from The Global Risks Index, with intervals and sources. Until then these pages show boundaries, people and exposure only.
05Imithombo

Sources, credits and licences

ADM1 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen SOM 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 2015. 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 SOM ADM2, source: Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI), Frank Salet, licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0) · source · represents 2022
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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