Country · 32 regions
Where Afghanistan's land ends up, by people and by money
Every block on the map is 0.1% of Afghanistan. By land, Kabul holds 0.60%. By people, it holds 16%. Nimroz goes the other way, from 6.6% of the land to 0.80% of the people.
GDP for Afghanistan is modelled from its national total, so the GDP map mostly repeats the population map.
| Region | Land | People | GDP |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kabul | 0.60 | 16 | 26 |
| Hirat | 9.2 | 8.3 | 11 |
| Nangarhar | 1.2 | 5.9 | 5.2 |
| Kandahar | 8.4 | 4.6 | 6.6 |
| Balkh | 2.9 | 4.4 | 5.2 |
| Badakhshan | 6.8 | 4.2 | 3.0 |
| Faryab | 3.3 | 4.0 | 3.0 |
| Takhar | 1.9 | 3.9 | 3.4 |
| Hilmand | 8.8 | 3.2 | 2.1 |
| Baghlan | 2.6 | 3.1 | 2.4 |
| Khost | 0.60 | 3.1 | 2.0 |
| Ghor | 4.9 | 2.8 | 2.7 |
| Uruzgan | 4.6 | 2.8 | 2.1 |
| Kunduz | 1.4 | 2.7 | 2.6 |
| Parwan | 1.5 | 2.6 | 2.0 |
| Ghazni | 3.7 | 2.5 | 1.6 |
| Badghis | 3.3 | 2.4 | 1.8 |
| Wardak | 1.7 | 2.3 | 1.3 |
| Farah | 7.5 | 2.1 | 1.3 |
| Paktya | 0.90 | 2.0 | 1.4 |
| Sari Pul | 2.4 | 1.9 | 1.3 |
| Laghman | 0.60 | 1.8 | 1.4 |
| Bamyan | 2.6 | 1.7 | 1.2 |
| Kunar | 0.80 | 1.7 | 1.1 |
| Jawzjan | 1.7 | 1.6 | 1.7 |
| Kapisa | 0.30 | 1.5 | 1.1 |
| Logar | 0.70 | 1.5 | 1.1 |
| Paktika | 3.0 | 1.5 | 0.90 |
| Samangan | 2.0 | 1.4 | 0.90 |
| Zabul | 2.4 | 1.0 | 0.70 |
| Nimroz | 6.6 | 0.80 | 1.4 |
| Nuristan | 1.4 | 0.50 | 0.30 |
How the map is made
Regions are drawn on an equal-area grid of about 1,000 blocks. For land, each region keeps the blocks its territory covers. For people and GDP, the country is reshaped so every region gets a whole number of blocks in proportion to its share (Hamilton's largest-remainder method), keeping neighbours next to each other. Then every block is matched to one block on the next map, so you watch the same thousand blocks rearrange.
Grids: popgrid by Josep Ferrer (MIT). Boundaries: Natural Earth. Population: national censuses where curated, GHS-POP 2025 (JRC, European Commission) elsewhere. GDP: Kummu et al. 2025 gridded GDP PPP (CC BY 4.0). Built by Crafter Station.