NXS-GRX-TZA · Eastern Africa · Regions

Tanga

First-level unit, United Republic of Tanzania: people, area, the units inside and neighbours, with risk values when released.

Page GRX-TZA-REdition Baseline Edition 2026Evidence close 2026-09-30ISO TZA / TZStatus UN member stateValues not yet publishedMethod v1.0.0-draft
3,022,785
people (GHSL 2025)
26,698 km²
area
4.3%
of United Republic of Tanzania
10
units inside
01Map

Inside Tanga

The 10 ADM2 units of Tanga.

FIG 1 · 10 units inside Tanga
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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

3,022,785

4.3% of United Republic of Tanzania.

People · WorldPop 2025

2,768,331

-8% against GHSL; the two grids differ in method.

Area

26,698 km²

113 people per km².

Code

TZ-25

Subdivision code as carried by the boundary source.

Low coastal zone

47,029

people on land at or below 10 m, 1.6% of the unit (GEBCO 2024 and GHSL 2025).

03Humanitarian data

Tanga 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 · 2020-12-31

2,588,076

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

04Units

10 units inside Tanga

Each unit has its own page.

Boundary licences: Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0 · Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO)

UnitCodePeople (GHSL)People (WorldPop)Area km²Per km²ShareCoast ≤ 10 m
Handeni–481,880419,5086,557.837315.8%15
Handeni Mji–140,479122,9128421674.6%0
Kilindi–479,773467,0236,460.887415.8%0
Korogwe–362,927299,5773,216.2711311.9%0
Korogwe Township Authority–99,24396,676225.994393.3%0
Lushoto–664,605491,2394,108.0716221.8%0
Mkinga–152,414156,6012,723.55565%4,894
Muheza–264,107247,2261,504.631768.7%27
Pangani–70,27574,5001,770.23402.3%9,692
Tanga Urban–327,612401,589598.8654710.8%35,711
05Exposure

Open exposure layers

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

Urban areas
59.1 H3 cells
Ports
None at this resolution
Airports
None at this resolution
Major roads
857.4 H3 cells
Railways
344.5 H3 cells
Rivers and lakes
211.2 H3 cells
06Risk

Risk values

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

Neighbouring units

08Sources

Sources, credits and licences

ADM1 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen TZA 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 TZA ADM2, source: Tanzania National Bureau of Statistics / UN OCHA ROSA, OCHA ROSA, licence: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO) · source · represents 2021
ADM3 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen TZA ADM3, source: OpenStreetMap © 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.
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.
Countries
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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