Country · 20 regions
Where Bhutan's land ends up, by people and by money
Every block on the map is 0.1% of Bhutan. By land, Chhukha holds 4.7%. By people, it holds 27%. Gasa goes the other way, from 11% of the land to 0.30% of the people.
GDP for Bhutan is modelled from its national total, so the GDP map mostly repeats the population map.
| Region | Land | People | GDP |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chhukha | 4.7 | 27 | 36 |
| Samchi | 4.1 | 11 | 9.7 |
| Thimphu | 4.5 | 7.8 | 14 |
| Tashigang | 5.6 | 6.8 | 4.9 |
| Geylegphug | 5.6 | 6.3 | 4.1 |
| Samdrup Jongkhar | 5.3 | 5.7 | 3.5 |
| Wangdi Phodrang | 10 | 5.3 | 5.4 |
| Mongar | 5.1 | 4.9 | 2.8 |
| Paro | 2.9 | 4.6 | 6.0 |
| Chirang | 1.4 | 2.6 | 2.3 |
| Daga | 3.6 | 2.5 | 1.5 |
| Shemgang | 5.4 | 2.4 | 1.5 |
| Tashi Yangtse | 4.4 | 2.2 | 1.2 |
| Bumthang | 6.8 | 2.1 | 1.1 |
| Lhuntshi | 7.1 | 1.9 | 0.90 |
| Punakha | 2.4 | 1.8 | 1.6 |
| Tongsa | 4.4 | 1.8 | 1.2 |
| Pemagatsel | 1.1 | 1.6 | 1.1 |
| Ha | 4.2 | 1.5 | 1.2 |
| Gasa | 11 | 0.30 | 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.