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Shiselweni

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

Page GRX-SWZ-REdition Baseline Edition 2026Evidence close 2026-09-30ISO SWZ / SZStatus UN member stateValues not yet publishedMethod v1.0.0-draft
223,281
people (GHSL 2025)
3,784 km²
area
17.9%
of Eswatini
14
units inside

01Map

Inside Shiselweni

The 14 ADM2 units of Shiselweni.

FIG 1 · 14 units inside Shiselweni
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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

223,281

17.9% of Eswatini.

People · WorldPop 2025

185,947

-17% against GHSL; the two grids differ in method.

Indawo

3,784 km²

59 people per km².

Ikhowudi

SZ-SH

Subdivision code as carried by the boundary source.

03Humanitarian data

Shiselweni 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 · 2022-12-31

210,735

people. UNFPA · Creative Commons Attribution for Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY-IGO).

Poverty headcount · 2022-12-31

8.4%

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

Rainfall · 2026-10-10

25%

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

04Units

14 units inside Shiselweni

Each unit has its own page.

Boundary licences: Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0.

Unit Ikhowudi People (GHSL) People (WorldPop) Area km² Per km² Share Coast ≤ 10 m
Inkhundla Gege – 15,613 15,855 558.34 28 7% 0
Inkhundla Hosea – 20,195 13,279 301.64 67 9% 0
Inkhundla Kubuta – 8,706 8,004 227.17 38 3.9% 0
Inkhundla Maseyisini – 22,835 26,175 214.24 107 10.2% 0
Inkhundla Matsanjeni – 16,963 11,371 422.72 40 7.6% 0
Inkhundla Mbangweni – 25,500 21,105 271.99 94 11.4% 0
Inkhundla Mtsambama – 21,417 16,734 274.68 78 9.6% 0
Inkhundla Ngudzeni – 11,520 7,345 130.89 88 5.2% 0
Inkhundla Nkwene – 9,566 7,359 278.27 34 4.3% 0
Inkhundla Sandleni – 13,789 11,019 159.6 86 6.2% 0
Inkhundla Shiselweni – 13,129 9,694 224.6 58 5.9% 0
Inkhundla Sigwe – 9,715 6,414 183.68 53 4.4% 0
Inkhundla Somntongo – 11,218 6,903 315.52 36 5% 0
Inkhundla Zombodze – 23,116 24,691 220.91 105 10.4% 0
05Ukuchaphazeleka

Open exposure layers

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

Urban areas
None at this resolution
Ports
None at this resolution
Airports
None at this resolution
Major roads
None at this resolution
Railways
None at this resolution
Rivers and lakes
None at this resolution
06Umngcipheko

Risk values

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

Neighbouring units

08Imithombo

Sources, credits and licences

ADM1 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen SWZ 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 2017. 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 SWZ ADM2, 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 2017. Offered under the same licence (Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0), kept as its own layer and not merged into other data.
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.