NXS-GRX-VEN · South America · Regions

Zulia

First-level unit, Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of): people, area, the units inside and neighbours, with risk values when released.

Page GRX-VEN-REdition Baseline Edition 2026Evidence close 2026-09-30ISO VEN / VEStatus UN member stateValues not yet publishedMethod v1.0.0-draft
3,922,630
people (GHSL 2025)
44,894 km²
area
13.6%
of Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)
21
units inside
01Map

Inside Zulia

The 21 ADM2 units of Zulia.

FIG 1 · 21 units inside Zulia
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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

3,922,630

13.6% of Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of).

People · WorldPop 2025

4,352,182

+11% against GHSL; the two grids differ in method.

Area

44,894 km²

87 people per km².

Code

VE-V

Subdivision code as carried by the boundary source.

Low coastal zone

809,740

people on land at or below 10 m, 20.6% of the unit (GEBCO 2024 and GHSL 2025).

03Humanitarian data

Zulia 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 · 2011-12-31

3,704,404

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

04Units

21 units inside Zulia

Each unit has its own page.

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

UnitCodePeople (GHSL)People (WorldPop)Area km²Per km²ShareCoast ≤ 10 m
Almirante Padilla–13,77921,513120.921140.3%5,120
Baralt–103,67159,9291,959.78532.6%8,715
Cabimas–196,411122,417575.213414.9%91,045
Catatumbo–48,49031,8444,859.77101.2%24,964
Colón–155,847120,3963,242.49483.9%120,386
Francisco Javier Pulgar–36,59624,171705.03520.9%15,063
Jesús Enrique Lossada–114,180385,0483,112.48372.9%0
Jesús María Semprum–38,29044,4915,210.8471%83
La Cañada de Urdaneta–38,623390,5981,793.25221%11,520
Lagunillas–169,927173,229929.391834.3%79,861
Machiques de Perijá–146,135253,5638,394.62173.7%1,108
Mara–248,062655,3193,118.45806.2%66,230
Maracaibo–1,661,834790,283364.644,55741.8%192,847
Miranda–102,561164,4311,944.56532.6%23,188
Páez–100,159238,8472,118.86472.5%75,325
Rosario de Perijá–96,607209,8503,380.47292.4%2,209
San Francisco–433,547382,685160.192,70610.9%21,246
Santa Rita–44,23474,103501.78881.1%8,194
Simón Bolívar–25,58171,295231.31110.6%11,005
Sucre–138,56388,1041,184.031173.5%20,229
Valmore Rodríguez–59,87688,4871,124.16531.5%34,467
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
None at this resolution
Ports
None at this resolution
Airports
None at this resolution
Major roads
435.4 H3 cells
Railways
None at this resolution
Rivers and lakes
121.8 H3 cells
06Risk

Risk values

Values when released. Subnational risk values for Zulia publish with the edition from The Global Risks Index. Until then, run a scenario on open data for Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of).
07Neighbours

Neighbouring units

08Sources

Sources, credits and licences

ADM1 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen VEN ADM1, source: OCHA Venezuela, Instituto Nacional de Estadística, licence: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO) · source · represents 2020
ADM2 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen VEN ADM2, source: Efrain Porto Tapiquen Geografia, SIG y Estudios Ambientales © 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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