Country · 8 regions
Where Australia's land ends up, by people and by money
Every block on the map is 0.1% of Australia. By land, Victoria holds 2.8%. By people, it holds 26%. Western Australia goes the other way, from 33% of the land to 10% of the people. By GDP, Western Australia punches above its population: 10% of the people, 18% of the economy.
| Region | Land | People | GDP |
|---|---|---|---|
| New South Wales | 11 | 32 | 31 |
| Victoria | 2.8 | 26 | 23 |
| Queensland | 22 | 20 | 18 |
| Western Australia | 33 | 10 | 18 |
| South Australia | 13 | 7.1 | 5.5 |
| Tasmania | 0.80 | 2.2 | 1.6 |
| Australian Capital Territory | 0.00 | 1.7 | 1.9 |
| Northern Territory | 18 | 1.0 | 1.1 |
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.