Country · 15 regions
Where Botswana's land ends up, by people and by money
Every block on the map is 0.1% of Botswana. By land, Kweneng holds 6.7%. By people, it holds 17%. Ghanzi goes the other way, from 19% of the land to 2.4% of the people. By GDP, Gaborone punches above its population: 9.5% of the people, 15% of the economy.
GDP for Botswana is modelled from its national total, so the GDP map mostly repeats the population map.
| Region | Land | People | GDP |
|---|---|---|---|
| Central | 25 | 25 | 21 |
| Kweneng | 6.7 | 17 | 18 |
| Southern | 4.6 | 9.7 | 8.3 |
| Gaborone | 0.10 | 9.5 | 15 |
| North-West | 23 | 8.7 | 9.4 |
| South-East | 0.20 | 6.0 | 6.3 |
| Francistown | 0.10 | 5.1 | 4.6 |
| North-East | 0.90 | 4.8 | 4.1 |
| Kgatleng | 1.3 | 4.6 | 4.0 |
| Lobatse | 0.00 | 2.9 | 3.1 |
| Ghanzi | 19 | 2.4 | 2.0 |
| Kgalagadi | 19 | 2.3 | 1.6 |
| Selebi-Phikwe | 0.00 | 2.1 | 2.3 |
| Jwaneng | 0.00 | 0.30 | 0.20 |
| Sowa | 0.10 | 0.10 | 0.10 |
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.