Country · 13 regions
Where Canada's land ends up, by people and by money
Every block on the map is 0.1% of Canada. By land, Ontario holds 11%. By people, it holds 39%. Nunavut goes the other way, from 21% of the land to 0.10% of the people. By GDP, Alberta punches above its population: 12% of the people, 17% of the economy.
| Region | Land | People | GDP |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ontario | 11 | 39 | 38 |
| Québec | 15 | 23 | 19 |
| British Columbia | 9.2 | 14 | 14 |
| Alberta | 6.8 | 12 | 17 |
| Manitoba | 6.4 | 3.6 | 3.2 |
| Saskatchewan | 6.7 | 3.1 | 4.2 |
| Nova Scotia | 0.70 | 2.6 | 1.8 |
| New Brunswick | 0.70 | 2.1 | 1.5 |
| Newfoundland and Labrador | 3.9 | 1.4 | 1.2 |
| Prince Edward Island | 0.10 | 0.40 | 0.30 |
| Northwest Territories | 14 | 0.10 | 0.20 |
| Nunavut | 21 | 0.10 | 0.10 |
| Yukon | 5.3 | 0.10 | 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.