Country · 11 regions
Where Belgium's land ends up, by people and by money
Every block on the map is 0.1% of Belgium. By land, Brussels holds 0.50%. By people, it holds 11%. Luxembourg goes the other way, from 15% of the land to 2.5% of the people.
| Region | Land | People | GDP |
|---|---|---|---|
| Antwerp | 8.9 | 16 | 19 |
| East Flanders | 9.8 | 13 | 13 |
| Hainaut | 13 | 12 | 8.1 |
| Brussels | 0.50 | 11 | 16 |
| West Flanders | 11 | 10 | 10 |
| Flemish Brabant | 7.0 | 9.9 | 11 |
| Liege | 12 | 9.7 | 7.1 |
| Limburg | 7.6 | 7.7 | 6.6 |
| Namur | 12 | 4.4 | 3.1 |
| Walloon Brabant | 3.5 | 3.6 | 4.3 |
| Luxembourg | 15 | 2.5 | 1.7 |
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.