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Luapula

First-level unit, Zambia: people, area, the units inside and neighbours, with risk values when released.

Page GRX-ZMB-REdition Baseline Edition 2026Evidence close 2026-09-30ISO ZMB / ZMStatus UN member stateValues not yet publishedMethod v1.0.0-draft
2,367,972
people (GHSL 2025)
49,964 km²
area
10.5%
of Zambia
12
units inside

01Map

Inside Luapula

The 12 ADM2 units of Luapula.

FIG 1 · 12 units inside Luapula
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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

2,367,972

10.5% of Zambia.

People · WorldPop 2025

1,730,890

-27% against GHSL; the two grids differ in method.

ప్రాంతం

49,964 km²

47 people per km².

కోడ్

ZM-04

Subdivision code as carried by the boundary source.

03Humanitarian data

Luapula 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 · 2020-12-31

1,243,727

people. UNFPA · Creative Commons Attribution International (CC BY).

Poverty headcount · 2018-12-31

66.7%

of people in multidimensional poverty. Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative · Public Domain / No restrictions (CC0).

Rainfall · 2026-10-10

166%

of the long-term average, latest dekad. WFP – World Food Programme · Creative Commons Attribution International (CC BY).

04Units

12 units inside Luapula

Each unit has its own page.

Boundary licences: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) · Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)

Unit కోడ్ People (GHSL) People (WorldPop) Area km² Per km² Share Coast ≤ 10 m
Chembe – 82,215 58,111 2,168.09 38 3.5% 0
Chiengi – 302,924 229,282 3,807.44 80 12.8% 0
Chifunabuli – 124,190 126,554 3,070.58 40 5.2% 0
Chipili – 38,527 47,679 4,279.21 9 1.6% 0
Kawambwa – 139,566 130,952 8,032.98 17 5.9% 0
Lunga – 29,174 36,636 3,816.65 8 1.2% 0
Mansa – 813,663 386,020 7,702.72 106 34.4% 0
Milengi – 13,953 58,152 6,087.82 2 0.6% 0
Mwansabombwe – 81,434 81,174 1,175.72 69 3.4% 0
Mwense – 291,148 157,063 2,417.52 120 12.3% 0
Nchelenge – 337,695 267,309 4,107.51 82 14.3% 0
Samfya – 113,482 151,958 3,296.76 34 4.8% 0
05బహిర్గతం

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
286.3 H3 cells
Railways
None at this resolution
Rivers and lakes
67.3 H3 cells
06ప్రమాదం

Risk values

Values when released. Subnational risk values for Luapula publish with the edition from The Global Risks Index. Until then, run a scenario on open data for Zambia.
07Neighbours

Neighbouring units

08మూలాలు

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.
దేశాలు
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.