Country · 8 regions
Where United Arab Emirates' land ends up, by people and by money
Every block on the map is 0.1% of United Arab Emirates. By land, Dubay holds 5.3%. By people, it holds 33%. Abu Dhabi goes the other way, from 83% of the land to 33% of the people. By GDP, Abu Dhabi punches above its population: 33% of the people, 58% of the economy.
| Region | Land | People | GDP |
|---|---|---|---|
| Abu Dhabi | 83 | 33 | 58 |
| Dubay | 5.3 | 33 | 27 |
| Sharjah | 4.0 | 21 | 9.8 |
| Ras Al Khaymah | 3.7 | 5.1 | 1.9 |
| Ajman | 0.20 | 4.3 | 1.3 |
| Fujayrah | 2.4 | 3.2 | 1.1 |
| Umm Al Qaywayn | 0.90 | 0.90 | 0.20 |
| Neutral Zone | 0.10 | 0.20 | 0.10 |
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.