NXS-GRX-USA · Northern America · Regions

United States of America: 56 provinces, states and territories

Every administrative level, from the 56 first-level units down to ADM2, on a terrain map with people, density and sources.

Page GRX-USA-REdition Baseline Edition 2026Evidence close 2026-09-30ISO USA / USStatus UN member stateValues not yet publishedMethod v1.0.0-draft
56
first-level units
3,289
units at 2 levels
343,489,632
people (GHSL 2025)
Terrain
open relief
01Map

United States of America by province, state and territory

56 first-level units, raised by people per km² over the population grid and terrain. Select a unit to drill in or open its page.

FIG 1 · 56 first-level units of United States of America
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Units rise with people per km² · GHSL 2025 raster · terrain · ADM1Risk values when released
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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.
02Levels

Every administrative level of United States of America

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

ADM1
56 first-level units · geoBoundaries gbOpen · Public Domain · each with its own page
ADM2
3,233 second-level units · geoBoundaries gbOpen · Public Domain · each with its own page
03Units

All 56 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: Public Domain

UnitCodePeople (GHSL)People (WorldPop)Area km²Per km²ShareCoast ≤ 10 m
AlabamaUS-AL5,160,1174,738,190133,964391.5%55,255
AlaskaUS-AK789,277764,2461,513,15910.2%49,713
American SamoaUS-AS25,25430,1042031240%261
ArizonaUS-AZ7,753,0819,372,465295,320262.3%0
ArkansasUS-AR3,189,1393,135,921137,744230.9%0
CaliforniaUS-CA40,789,52443,415,414409,69910011.9%3,203,558
ColoradoUS-CO6,030,7505,468,000269,381221.8%0
Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana IslandsUS-MP37,11533,856479770%2,457
ConnecticutUS-CT3,581,1423,594,63112,9072771%271,500
DelawareUS-DE1,081,300984,8225,2032080.3%245,597
District of ColumbiaUS-DC661,448474,1561763,7580.2%68,532
FloridaUS-FL22,194,82925,119,718151,1671476.5%8,843,898
GeorgiaUS-GA11,184,99511,336,485152,675733.3%254,584
GuamUS-GU148,226144,5535632630%2,160
HawaiiUS-HI1,364,8451,243,05116,797810.4%136,229
IdahoUS-ID1,992,4351,840,089216,00790.6%0
IllinoisUS-IL12,707,36712,996,686145,761873.7%0
IndianaUS-IN6,757,2366,544,05093,630722%0
IowaUS-IA3,249,0602,980,023145,516220.9%0
KansasUS-KS3,091,5972,921,989212,947150.9%0
KentuckyUS-KY4,760,3534,518,101104,611461.4%0
LouisianaUS-LA4,738,5834,723,949122,246391.4%1,774,539
MaineUS-ME1,381,8241,379,37684,691160.4%69,475
MarylandUS-MD6,177,7926,610,38326,6212321.8%397,815
MassachusettsUS-MA7,096,9226,775,00821,2193342.1%683,088
MichiganUS-MI10,022,43110,484,888150,740662.9%4,742
MinnesotaUS-MN6,038,5706,070,723218,024281.8%0
MississippiUS-MS3,068,9833,014,922123,567250.9%143,451
MissouriUS-MO6,430,0976,237,991180,430361.9%0
MontanaUS-MT1,138,7001,029,517379,80630.3%0
NebraskaUS-NE2,036,4511,803,642200,058100.6%0
NevadaUS-NV3,327,5883,832,408286,105121%0
New HampshireUS-NH1,485,0221,572,70523,994620.4%31,525
New JerseyUS-NJ9,320,1779,811,56020,1274632.7%1,144,644
New MexicoUS-NM2,304,5892,072,694314,96570.7%0
New YorkUS-NY19,098,11918,724,395126,7761515.6%2,940,013
North CarolinaUS-NC11,374,33211,238,652128,589883.3%666,003
North DakotaUS-ND748,704594,367182,60140.2%0
OhioUS-OH11,816,77911,426,606106,7431113.4%0
OklahomaUS-OK4,226,6933,798,639181,018231.2%0
OregonUS-OR4,526,3004,478,224250,849181.3%121,631
PennsylvaniaUS-PA13,186,02312,691,935117,1941133.8%347,109
Puerto RicoUS-PR3,122,9593,085,0619,0593450.9%383,982
Rhode IslandUS-RI948,797992,4952,8423340.3%77,218
South CarolinaUS-SC5,590,9084,925,98880,607691.6%699,005
South DakotaSU-SD917,622786,953199,30750.3%0
TennesseeUS-TN7,317,4796,968,888109,139672.1%0
TexasUS-TX30,811,80230,507,183688,325459%1,073,822
United States Virgin IslandsUS-VI53,10946,0463571490%3,140
UtahUS-UT3,369,4843,170,819219,697151%0
VermontUS-VT651,359688,74824,854260.2%160
VirginiaUS-VA8,686,9089,148,688104,803832.5%1,211,624
WashingtonUS-WA7,636,9377,607,817174,949442.2%363,153
West VirginiaUS-WV1,766,8241,723,59662,708280.5%0
WisconsinUS-WI5,900,0045,995,889145,051411.7%0
WyomingUS-WY621,671526,009252,87020.2%0
04Risk

Subnational risk products

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

Sources, credits and licences

ADM1 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen USA ADM1, source: United States Census Bureau, MAF/TIGER Database, licence: Public Domain · source · represents 2018
ADM2 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen USA ADM2, source: United States Census Bureau, MAF/TIGER Database, 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.
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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