Country · 9 regions
Where Bolivia's land ends up, by people and by money
Every block on the map is 0.1% of Bolivia. By land, La Paz holds 12%. By people, it holds 26%. El Beni goes the other way, from 19% of the land to 3.6% of the people. By GDP, Santa Cruz punches above its population: 28% of the people, 39% of the economy.
| Region | Land | People | GDP |
|---|---|---|---|
| Santa Cruz | 33 | 28 | 39 |
| La Paz | 12 | 26 | 23 |
| Cochabamba | 5.4 | 17 | 16 |
| Potosí | 11 | 7.6 | 4.8 |
| Oruro | 5.0 | 5.3 | 4.8 |
| Chuquisaca | 4.7 | 5.2 | 3.6 |
| Tarija | 3.2 | 4.8 | 5.5 |
| El Beni | 19 | 3.6 | 2.6 |
| Pando | 5.9 | 1.5 | 1.4 |
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.