Country · 45 regions
Where Burkina Faso's land ends up, by people and by money
Every block on the map is 0.1% of Burkina Faso. By land, Kadiogo holds 1.1%. By people, it holds 17%. Tapoa goes the other way, from 5.2% of the land to 2.7% of the people.
GDP for Burkina Faso is modelled from its national total, so the GDP map mostly repeats the population map.
| Region | Land | People | GDP |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kadiogo | 1.1 | 17 | 40 |
| Houet | 4.3 | 8.7 | 9.6 |
| Komoé | 5.6 | 4.1 | 2.7 |
| Sanmatenga | 3.4 | 3.7 | 2.0 |
| Boulgou | 2.4 | 3.5 | 2.1 |
| Yatenga | 2.6 | 3.3 | 2.3 |
| Boulkiemdé | 1.6 | 2.9 | 1.7 |
| Gnagna | 3.3 | 2.7 | 1.8 |
| Tapoa | 5.2 | 2.7 | 1.5 |
| Soum | 4.7 | 2.4 | 1.9 |
| Gourma | 4.2 | 2.2 | 1.5 |
| Kouritenga | 1.0 | 2.2 | 1.9 |
| Kénédougou | 2.9 | 2.2 | 1.7 |
| Namentenga | 2.2 | 2.2 | 1.7 |
| Koulpélogo | 1.8 | 2.0 | 1.0 |
| Ganzourgou | 1.6 | 1.9 | 1.3 |
| Bam | 1.6 | 1.8 | 1.3 |
| Mou Houn | 2.4 | 1.8 | 1.3 |
| Passoré | 1.5 | 1.8 | 1.2 |
| Poni | 2.8 | 1.8 | 1.2 |
| Sanguié | 1.9 | 1.7 | 1.0 |
| Séno | 2.6 | 1.7 | 1.2 |
| Tuy | 2.2 | 1.7 | 1.1 |
| Banwa | 2.2 | 1.6 | 1.0 |
| Kossi | 2.8 | 1.6 | 0.90 |
| Oudalan | 3.7 | 1.5 | 1.0 |
| Zoundwéogo | 1.4 | 1.5 | 1.4 |
| Sissili | 2.1 | 1.4 | 1.2 |
| Ziro | 2.1 | 1.4 | 0.90 |
| Balé | 1.8 | 1.3 | 0.80 |
| Oubritenga | 1.0 | 1.3 | 1.2 |
| Bazéga | 1.4 | 1.2 | 0.90 |
| Sourou | 2.0 | 1.2 | 0.90 |
| Yagha | 2.2 | 1.1 | 0.60 |
| Kompienga | 2.6 | 1.0 | 0.50 |
| Nahouri | 1.2 | 1.0 | 0.60 |
| Zondoma | 0.60 | 1.0 | 0.60 |
| Ioba | 1.1 | 0.90 | 0.60 |
| Loroum | 1.3 | 0.90 | 0.60 |
| Léraba | 1.4 | 0.90 | 0.70 |
| Nayala | 1.5 | 0.90 | 0.70 |
| Bougouriba | 1.2 | 0.80 | 0.50 |
| Kourwéogo | 0.60 | 0.80 | 0.50 |
| Komondjari | 1.8 | 0.70 | 0.50 |
| Noumbiel | 0.80 | 0.40 | 0.30 |
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.