Country · 27 regions
Where Brazil's land ends up, by people and by money
Every block on the map is 0.1% of Brazil. By land, São Paulo holds 3.2%. By people, it holds 22%. Amazonas goes the other way, from 18% of the land to 2.1% of the people.
| Region | Land | People | GDP |
|---|---|---|---|
| São Paulo | 3.2 | 22 | 31 |
| Minas Gerais | 6.7 | 10 | 9.0 |
| Rio de Janeiro | 0.60 | 7.8 | 9.3 |
| Bahia | 6.7 | 6.9 | 3.8 |
| Paraná | 2.1 | 5.6 | 6.2 |
| Rio Grande do Sul | 3.3 | 5.3 | 6.0 |
| Ceará | 1.9 | 4.4 | 2.3 |
| Pernambuco | 1.3 | 4.4 | 2.6 |
| Pará | 14 | 4.2 | 3.0 |
| Santa Catarina | 1.0 | 3.7 | 4.4 |
| Goiás | 4.1 | 3.5 | 3.5 |
| Maranhão | 3.8 | 3.3 | 1.5 |
| Amazonas | 18 | 2.1 | 1.7 |
| Espírito Santo | 0.50 | 2.0 | 1.7 |
| Paraíba | 0.80 | 1.9 | 0.90 |
| Mato Grosso | 11 | 1.8 | 2.5 |
| Piauí | 3.0 | 1.6 | 0.70 |
| Rio Grande do Norte | 0.80 | 1.6 | 1.0 |
| Alagoas | 0.10 | 1.5 | 0.80 |
| Distrito Federal | 0.10 | 1.4 | 3.9 |
| Mato Grosso do Sul | 4.0 | 1.3 | 1.7 |
| Sergipe | 0.30 | 1.1 | 0.60 |
| Rondônia | 3.1 | 0.90 | 0.70 |
| Tocantins | 3.3 | 0.80 | 0.70 |
| Acre | 1.9 | 0.50 | 0.20 |
| Amapá | 1.6 | 0.40 | 0.20 |
| Roraima | 2.7 | 0.30 | 0.20 |
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.