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Zambia: 10 provinces, states and territories

Every administrative level, from the 10 first-level units down to ADM2, on a terrain map with people, density and sources.

Page GRX-ZMB-REdition Baseline Edition 2026Evidence close 2026-09-30ISO ZMB / ZMStatus UN member stateValues not yet publishedMethod v1.0.0-draft
10
first-level units
126
units at 2 levels
22,452,233
people (GHSL 2025)
Terrain
open relief

01Map

Zambia by province, state and territory

10 first-level units and 116 second-level units inside them, raised by people per km² over the population grid and terrain. Select a unit to drill in or open its page.

FIG 1 · 10 first-level units of Zambia
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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.
02Levels

Every administrative level of Zambia

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

ADM1
10 first-level units · geoBoundaries gbOpen · Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) · each with its own page
ADM2
116 second-level units · geoBoundaries gbOpen · Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0) · each with its own page
03Units

All 10 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: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) · Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)

Unit कोड People (GHSL) People (WorldPop) Area km² Per km² Share Coast ≤ 10 m
Central ZM-02 2,395,088 3,399,767 110,702 22 10.7% 0
Copperbelt ZM-08 3,151,982 3,082,166 31,226 101 14% 0
Eastern ZM-03 2,553,541 2,564,491 51,846 49 11.4% 0
Luapula ZM-04 2,367,972 1,730,890 49,964 47 10.5% 0
Lusaka ZM-09 4,295,591 2,722,911 23,564 182 19.1% 0
Muchinga ZM-10 1,154,643 1,255,042 86,738 13 5.1% 0
North-Western ZM-06 1,115,777 1,468,443 125,711 9 5% 0
Northern ZM-05 1,853,137 1,747,083 77,893 24 8.3% 0
Southern ZM-07 2,359,440 2,399,108 68,418 34 10.5% 0
Western ZM-01 1,205,062 1,508,069 127,838 9 5.4% 0
04जोखीम

Subnational risk products

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

Sources, credits and licences

ADM1 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen ZMB ADM1, source: Zambia Data Hub, licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) · source · represents 2020
ADM2 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen ZMB ADM2, source: GRID3, Office of the Surveyor General, licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0) · 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.
देश
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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