Western Cape
First-level unit, South Africa: people, area, the units inside and neighbours, with risk values when released.
Inside Western Cape
The 6 ADM2 units of Western Cape.
People, area and density
Source observations from open grids summed inside the boundary; not index values.
7,356,130
12.1% of South Africa.
7,283,192
-1% against GHSL; the two grids differ in method.
129,535 km²
57 people per km².
WC
Subdivision code as carried by the boundary source.
403,107
people on land at or below 10 m, 5.5% of the unit (GEBCO 2024 and GHSL 2025).
Western Cape 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.
6,898,299
people. UNFPA · Creative Commons Attribution for Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY-IGO).
100%
of the long-term average, latest dekad. WFP – World Food Programme · Creative Commons Attribution International (CC BY).
6 units inside Western Cape
Each unit has its own page.
Boundary licences: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO)
| Unit | કોડ | People (GHSL) | People (WorldPop) | Area km² | Per km² | Share | Coast ≤ 10 m |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cape Winelands | – | 1,042,909 | 936,727 | 21,481.96 | 49 | 14.2% | 0 |
| Central Karoo | – | 94,920 | 110,551 | 38,876.24 | 2 | 1.3% | 0 |
| City of Cape Town | – | 4,589,027 | 4,571,309 | 2,447.6 | 1,875 | 62.4% | 317,883 |
| Eden | – | 765,471 | 847,937 | 23,339.87 | 33 | 10.4% | 16,351 |
| Overberg | – | 307,048 | 323,179 | 12,245.41 | 25 | 4.2% | 9,708 |
| West Coast | – | 556,754 | 493,491 | 31,143.58 | 18 | 7.6% | 30,065 |
Open exposure layers
Count of H3 resolution-3 cells whose centre falls in the unit and that carry each Natural Earth layer.
- Urban areas
- 961.5 H3 cells
- Ports
- 2 H3 cells
- Airports
- 1 H3 cells
- Major roads
- 3,621.5 H3 cells
- Railways
- 2,203.5 H3 cells
- Rivers and lakes
- 681.1 H3 cells
Risk values
Neighbouring units
Sources, credits and licences
- ADM1 boundaries
- geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen ZAF ADM1, source: OCHA ROSEA, South African Municipal Demarcation Board, licence: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO) · source · represents 2020
- ADM2 boundaries
- geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen ZAF ADM2, source: OCHA ROSEA, South African Municipal Demarcation Board, licence: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO) · source · represents 2020
- ADM3 boundaries
- geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen ZAF ADM3, source: OCHA ROSEA, South African Municipal Demarcation Board, licence: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO) · source · represents 2020
- ADM4 boundaries
- geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen ZAF ADM4, source: OCHA ROSEA, South African Municipal Demarcation Board, licence: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO) · source · represents 2020
- 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.
- દેશો
- 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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