Country · 26 regions
Where Switzerland's land ends up, by people and by money
Every block on the map is 0.1% of Switzerland. By land, Zürich holds 4.3%. By people, it holds 18%. Graubünden goes the other way, from 17% of the land to 2.3% of the people.
| Region | Land | People | GDP |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zürich | 4.3 | 18 | 27 |
| Bern | 14 | 12 | 13 |
| Vaud | 8.2 | 9.4 | 6.5 |
| Aargau | 3.3 | 8.1 | 6.6 |
| Sankt Gallen | 5.0 | 6.0 | 5.4 |
| Genève | 0.70 | 5.9 | 6.8 |
| Lucerne | 3.4 | 4.8 | 3.8 |
| Ticino | 7.0 | 4.1 | 3.1 |
| Valais | 13 | 4.0 | 4.3 |
| Fribourg | 3.7 | 3.8 | 2.7 |
| Basel-Landschaft | 1.3 | 3.4 | 2.6 |
| Thurgau | 2.3 | 3.3 | 2.8 |
| Solothurn | 2.1 | 3.2 | 2.5 |
| Graubünden | 17 | 2.3 | 1.8 |
| Basel-Stadt | 0.10 | 2.1 | 1.7 |
| Neuchâtel | 2.0 | 2.0 | 1.7 |
| Schwyz | 2.2 | 1.9 | 1.6 |
| Zug | 0.60 | 1.5 | 2.5 |
| Schaffhausen | 0.70 | 1.0 | 0.80 |
| Jura | 2.1 | 0.80 | 0.60 |
| Appenzell Ausserrhoden | 0.40 | 0.70 | 0.50 |
| Glarus | 1.6 | 0.50 | 0.30 |
| Nidwalden | 0.50 | 0.50 | 0.40 |
| Obwalden | 1.3 | 0.40 | 0.30 |
| Uri | 2.7 | 0.40 | 0.40 |
| Appenzell Innerrhoden | 0.50 | 0.20 | 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.