Country · 12 regions
Where Benin's land ends up, by people and by money
Every block on the map is 0.1% of Benin. By land, Atlantique holds 2.6%. By people, it holds 17%. Alibori goes the other way, from 23% of the land to 9.2% of the people.
| Region | Land | People | GDP |
|---|---|---|---|
| Atlantique | 2.6 | 17 | 23 |
| Borgou | 22 | 13 | 12 |
| Ouémé | 1.2 | 11 | 11 |
| Alibori | 23 | 9.2 | 7.2 |
| Atakora | 18 | 7.9 | 5.4 |
| Zou | 4.3 | 7.8 | 9.0 |
| Kouffo | 2.4 | 7.1 | 5.4 |
| Collines | 12 | 6.2 | 4.4 |
| Donga | 9.4 | 5.7 | 6.1 |
| Plateau | 2.7 | 5.6 | 5.5 |
| Littoral | 0.20 | 5.2 | 7.8 |
| Mono | 1.4 | 4.5 | 3.3 |
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.