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Västra Götalands län

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

Map All 21 first-level units
Page GRX-SWE-REdition Baseline Edition 2026Evidence close 2026-09-30ISO SWE / SEStatus UN member stateValues not yet publishedMethod v1.0.0-draft
1,685,688
people (GHSL 2025)
28,647 km²
area
16.6%
of Sweden
49
units inside

01Map

Inside Västra Götalands län

The 49 ADM2 units of Västra Götalands län.

FIG 1 · 49 units inside Västra Götalands län
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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. 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

1,685,688

16.6% of Sweden.

People · WorldPop 2025

1,677,627

0% against GHSL; the two grids differ in method.

பரப்பு

28,647 km²

59 people per km².

குறியீடு

SE-O

Subdivision code as carried by the boundary source.

Low coastal zone

157,238

people on land at or below 10 m, 9.3% of the unit (GEBCO 2024 and GHSL 2025).

03Units

49 units inside Västra Götalands län

Each unit has its own page.

Boundary licences: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License · CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication.

Unit குறியீடு People (GHSL) People (WorldPop) Area km² Per km² Share Coast ≤ 10 m
Ale – 12,902 16,840 348.84 37 0.8% 1,028
Alingsås – 42,819 43,643 555.08 77 2.5% 0
Åmål – 12,947 11,673 962.19 13 0.8% 0
Bengtsfors – 10,000 8,524 1,030.43 10 0.6% 0
Bollebygd – 12,961 12,228 283.25 46 0.8% 0
Borås – 108,781 111,317 958.94 113 6.4% 0
Dals-Ed – 4,979 4,553 864.28 6 0.3% 0
Essunga – 5,132 4,026 229.79 22 0.3% 0
Falköping – 38,393 37,242 1,065.67 36 2.3% 0
Färgelanda – 7,126 6,263 615.65 12 0.4% 0
Götene – 14,281 12,302 581.25 25 0.8% 0
Gothenburg – 612,912 606,442 480.7 1,275 36% 126,731
Grästorp – 6,451 5,657 281.97 23 0.4% 0
Gullspång – 5,452 5,008 574.65 9 0.3% 0
Härryda – 37,424 39,033 292.76 128 2.2% 0
Herrljunga – 10,443 9,518 512.73 20 0.6% 0
Hjo – 9,684 9,210 531.53 18 0.6% 0
Karlsborg – 7,028 6,711 764.49 9 0.4% 0
Kungälv – 59,025 62,803 371.11 159 3.5% 14,104
Lerum – 43,070 42,923 304.03 142 2.5% 0
Lidköping – 40,442 38,866 1,265.6 32 2.4% 0
Lilla Edet – 11,305 13,025 339.8 33 0.7% 1,208
Lysekil – 5,565 4,402 187.21 30 0.3% 416
Mariestad – 25,109 24,367 1,368.42 18 1.5% 0
Mark – 38,103 36,693 1,014.4 38 2.2% 48
Mellerud – 9,359 8,582 947.92 10 0.5% 0
Mölndal – 70,804 71,058 160.61 441 4.2% 5,345
Munkedal – 10,790 10,295 683.34 16 0.6% 217
Öckerö – 3,548 3,548 22.89 155 0.2% 890
Orust – 11,428 10,764 330.28 35 0.7% 811
Partille – 20,698 23,870 63.64 325 1.2% 2,139
Skara – 20,385 18,945 446.01 46 1.2% 0
Skövde – 51,506 53,368 679.43 76 3% 0
Sotenäs – 8,050 7,588 160.52 50 0.5% 1,410
Stenungsund – 14,092 16,956 254.49 55 0.8% 1,471
Strömstad – 11,153 12,519 453.05 25 0.7% 2,017
Svenljunga – 11,802 11,623 970.21 12 0.7% 0
Tanum – 12,225 12,118 999.91 12 0.7% 1,075
Tibro – 10,951 10,619 219.92 50 0.6% 0
Tidaholm – 13,395 12,271 523.46 26 0.8% 0
Tjörn – 9,425 9,854 134.93 70 0.6% 2,084
Töreboda – 9,136 8,675 585.98 16 0.5% 0
Tranemo – 13,133 12,419 782.92 17 0.8% 0
Trollhättan – 63,343 61,104 443.38 143 3.7% 0
Uddevalla – 55,497 55,876 696.13 80 3.3% 2,929
Ulricehamn – 24,638 24,869 1,105.4 22 1.4% 0
Vänersborg – 36,458 37,809 883.81 41 2.1% 0
Vara – 16,650 15,556 695.92 24 1% 0
Vårgårda – 11,727 11,861 450.99 26 0.7% 0
04வெளிப்பாடு

Open exposure layers

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

Urban areas
425 H3 cells
Ports
2 H3 cells
Airports
None at this resolution
Major roads
1,636.6 H3 cells
Railways
1,328.1 H3 cells
Rivers and lakes
140.2 H3 cells
05இடர்

Risk values

Values when released. Subnational risk values for Västra Götalands län publish with the edition from The Global Risks Index. Until then, run a scenario on open data for Sweden.
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06Neighbours

Neighbouring units

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Sources, credits and licences

ADM1 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen SWE ADM1, source: geoBoundaries, Erik Frohne, licence: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License · source · represents 2009
ADM2 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen SWE ADM2, source: geoBoundaries, Wikimedia Commons, licence: CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication · source · represents 2017
ADM3 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen SWE ADM3, source: Lantmateriet, Statistics Sweden, licence: Public Domain · source · represents 2018
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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Avis en français

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