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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.

Map All units Country map
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
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.
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

Unit குறியீடு People (GHSL) People (WorldPop) Area km² Per km² Share Coast ≤ 10 m
Alabama US-AL 5,160,117 4,738,190 133,964 39 1.5% 55,255
Alaska US-AK 789,277 764,246 1,513,159 1 0.2% 49,713
American Samoa US-AS 25,254 30,104 203 124 0% 261
Arizona US-AZ 7,753,081 9,372,465 295,320 26 2.3% 0
Arkansas US-AR 3,189,139 3,135,921 137,744 23 0.9% 0
California US-CA 40,789,524 43,415,414 409,699 100 11.9% 3,203,558
Colorado US-CO 6,030,750 5,468,000 269,381 22 1.8% 0
Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands US-MP 37,115 33,856 479 77 0% 2,457
Connecticut US-CT 3,581,142 3,594,631 12,907 277 1% 271,500
Delaware US-DE 1,081,300 984,822 5,203 208 0.3% 245,597
District of Columbia US-DC 661,448 474,156 176 3,758 0.2% 68,532
Florida US-FL 22,194,829 25,119,718 151,167 147 6.5% 8,843,898
Georgia US-GA 11,184,995 11,336,485 152,675 73 3.3% 254,584
Guam US-GU 148,226 144,553 563 263 0% 2,160
Hawaii US-HI 1,364,845 1,243,051 16,797 81 0.4% 136,229
Idaho US-ID 1,992,435 1,840,089 216,007 9 0.6% 0
Illinois US-IL 12,707,367 12,996,686 145,761 87 3.7% 0
Indiana US-IN 6,757,236 6,544,050 93,630 72 2% 0
Iowa US-IA 3,249,060 2,980,023 145,516 22 0.9% 0
Kansas US-KS 3,091,597 2,921,989 212,947 15 0.9% 0
Kentucky US-KY 4,760,353 4,518,101 104,611 46 1.4% 0
Louisiana US-LA 4,738,583 4,723,949 122,246 39 1.4% 1,774,539
Maine US-ME 1,381,824 1,379,376 84,691 16 0.4% 69,475
Maryland US-MD 6,177,792 6,610,383 26,621 232 1.8% 397,815
Massachusetts US-MA 7,096,922 6,775,008 21,219 334 2.1% 683,088
Michigan US-MI 10,022,431 10,484,888 150,740 66 2.9% 4,742
Minnesota US-MN 6,038,570 6,070,723 218,024 28 1.8% 0
Mississippi US-MS 3,068,983 3,014,922 123,567 25 0.9% 143,451
Missouri US-MO 6,430,097 6,237,991 180,430 36 1.9% 0
Montana US-MT 1,138,700 1,029,517 379,806 3 0.3% 0
Nebraska US-NE 2,036,451 1,803,642 200,058 10 0.6% 0
Nevada US-NV 3,327,588 3,832,408 286,105 12 1% 0
New Hampshire US-NH 1,485,022 1,572,705 23,994 62 0.4% 31,525
New Jersey US-NJ 9,320,177 9,811,560 20,127 463 2.7% 1,144,644
New Mexico US-NM 2,304,589 2,072,694 314,965 7 0.7% 0
New York US-NY 19,098,119 18,724,395 126,776 151 5.6% 2,940,013
North Carolina US-NC 11,374,332 11,238,652 128,589 88 3.3% 666,003
North Dakota US-ND 748,704 594,367 182,601 4 0.2% 0
Ohio US-OH 11,816,779 11,426,606 106,743 111 3.4% 0
Oklahoma US-OK 4,226,693 3,798,639 181,018 23 1.2% 0
Oregon US-OR 4,526,300 4,478,224 250,849 18 1.3% 121,631
Pennsylvania US-PA 13,186,023 12,691,935 117,194 113 3.8% 347,109
Puerto Rico US-PR 3,122,959 3,085,061 9,059 345 0.9% 383,982
Rhode Island US-RI 948,797 992,495 2,842 334 0.3% 77,218
South Carolina US-SC 5,590,908 4,925,988 80,607 69 1.6% 699,005
South Dakota SU-SD 917,622 786,953 199,307 5 0.3% 0
Tennessee US-TN 7,317,479 6,968,888 109,139 67 2.1% 0
Texas US-TX 30,811,802 30,507,183 688,325 45 9% 1,073,822
United States Virgin Islands US-VI 53,109 46,046 357 149 0% 3,140
Utah US-UT 3,369,484 3,170,819 219,697 15 1% 0
Vermont US-VT 651,359 688,748 24,854 26 0.2% 160
Virginia US-VA 8,686,908 9,148,688 104,803 83 2.5% 1,211,624
Washington US-WA 7,636,937 7,607,817 174,949 44 2.2% 363,153
West Virginia US-WV 1,766,824 1,723,596 62,708 28 0.5% 0
Wisconsin US-WI 5,900,004 5,995,889 145,051 41 1.7% 0
Wyoming US-WY 621,671 526,009 252,870 2 0.2% 0
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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.
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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.
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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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