Country · 28 regions
Where Bulgaria's land ends up, by people and by money
Every block on the map is 0.1% of Bulgaria. By land, Grad Sofiya holds 1.1%. By people, it holds 21%. Sofia goes the other way, from 6.2% of the land to 3.6% of the people.
| Region | Land | People | GDP |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grad Sofiya | 1.1 | 21 | 44 |
| Plovdiv | 5.1 | 10 | 8.3 |
| Varna | 3.6 | 7.1 | 6.1 |
| Burgas | 6.7 | 5.6 | 3.6 |
| Blagoevgrad | 6.0 | 4.4 | 2.7 |
| Stara Zagora | 4.2 | 4.2 | 3.9 |
| Sofia | 6.2 | 3.6 | 4.0 |
| Pazardzhik | 4.0 | 3.5 | 2.1 |
| Pleven | 3.9 | 3.4 | 2.0 |
| Veliko Tarnovo | 4.1 | 3.3 | 2.1 |
| Ruse | 2.7 | 3.0 | 2.4 |
| Haskovo | 3.7 | 2.9 | 1.6 |
| Sliven | 3.3 | 2.6 | 1.2 |
| Dobrich | 4.2 | 2.3 | 1.3 |
| Vratsa | 4.0 | 2.3 | 1.9 |
| Kardzhali | 3.5 | 2.2 | 1.3 |
| Shumen | 2.8 | 2.2 | 1.3 |
| Montana | 3.3 | 1.7 | 1.0 |
| Pernik | 2.0 | 1.7 | 1.0 |
| Yambol | 3.9 | 1.7 | 0.90 |
| Kyustendil | 2.7 | 1.6 | 0.90 |
| Lovech | 3.9 | 1.6 | 1.0 |
| Silistra | 2.9 | 1.6 | 0.80 |
| Razgrad | 2.0 | 1.5 | 0.90 |
| Smolyan | 3.3 | 1.5 | 1.0 |
| Targovishte | 2.4 | 1.5 | 0.90 |
| Gabrovo | 1.7 | 1.4 | 1.2 |
| Vidin | 2.8 | 1.1 | 0.60 |
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.