Continent · 44 countries
Where Asia's land ends up, by people and by money
Every block on the map is 0.1% of Asia. By land, Philippines holds 0.46%. By people, it holds 46%. Russia goes the other way, from 36% of the land to 1.6% of the people.
| Country | Land | People | GDP |
|---|---|---|---|
| Philippines | 0.46 | 46 | 51 |
| India | 6.5 | 16 | 7.9 |
| China | 18 | 16 | 19 |
| Indonesia | 4.7 | 3.0 | 2.2 |
| Pakistan | 1.9 | 2.8 | 0.80 |
| Bangladesh | 0.37 | 1.9 | 0.80 |
| Iran | 3.0 | 1.6 | 1.4 |
| Russia | 36 | 1.6 | 3.2 |
| Japan | 1.3 | 1.3 | 2.9 |
| Vietnam | 0.93 | 1.1 | 0.80 |
| Turkey | 1.6 | 0.90 | 1.8 |
| Thailand | 1.1 | 0.80 | 0.80 |
| Myanmar | 1.5 | 0.60 | 0.20 |
| South Korea | 0.37 | 0.60 | 1.3 |
| Afghanistan | 1.1 | 0.50 | 0.20 |
| Iraq | 0.93 | 0.50 | 0.30 |
| Kazakhstan | 5.2 | 0.40 | 0.70 |
| Malaysia | 0.74 | 0.40 | 0.70 |
| Nepal | 0.28 | 0.40 | 0.10 |
| Saudi Arabia | 3.9 | 0.40 | 1.2 |
| Uzbekistan | 1.0 | 0.40 | 0.20 |
| Yemen | 1.0 | 0.40 | 0.00 |
| North Korea | 0.09 | 0.30 | 0.00 |
| Syria | 0.37 | 0.30 | 0.10 |
| Taiwan | 0.09 | 0.30 | 0.80 |
| Cambodia | 0.46 | 0.20 | 0.10 |
| Sri Lanka | 0.19 | 0.20 | 0.20 |
| Tajikistan | 0.28 | 0.20 | 0.00 |
| Azerbaijan | 0.28 | 0.10 | 0.10 |
| Israel | 0.09 | 0.10 | 0.20 |
| Jordan | 0.09 | 0.10 | 0.10 |
| Kuwait | 0.09 | 0.10 | 0.10 |
| Kyrgyzstan | 0.28 | 0.10 | 0.00 |
| Laos | 0.46 | 0.10 | 0.10 |
| Oman | 0.93 | 0.10 | 0.10 |
| Turkmenistan | 1.0 | 0.10 | 0.10 |
| United Arab Emirates | 0.00 | 0.10 | 0.30 |
| Armenia | 0.09 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Bhutan | 0.19 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Brunei | 0.09 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Cyprus | 0.09 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Georgia | 0.09 | 0.00 | 0.10 |
| Mongolia | 3.0 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Qatar | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.20 |
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.