Country · 12 regions
Where Albania's land ends up, by people and by money
Every block on the map is 0.1% of Albania. By land, Tiranë holds 5.7%. By people, it holds 41%. Gjirokastër goes the other way, from 10% of the land to 1.7% of the people.
| Region | Land | People | GDP |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tiranë | 5.7 | 41 | 52 |
| Durrës | 2.6 | 10 | 9.7 |
| Fier | 6.3 | 8.4 | 8.4 |
| Elbasan | 11 | 8.0 | 5.4 |
| Shkodër | 13 | 6.4 | 4.3 |
| Korçë | 13 | 6.2 | 4.5 |
| Vlorë | 9.3 | 5.9 | 5.4 |
| Lezhë | 5.4 | 4.1 | 2.8 |
| Berat | 6.7 | 3.4 | 2.7 |
| Dibër | 8.6 | 3.2 | 2.2 |
| Kukës | 8.1 | 2.1 | 1.2 |
| Gjirokastër | 10 | 1.7 | 1.6 |
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.