Country · 16 regions
Where Chile's land ends up, by people and by money
Every block on the map is 0.1% of Chile. By land, Región Metropolitana de Santiago holds 2.2%. By people, it holds 41%. Magallanes y Antártica Chilena goes the other way, from 17% of the land to 0.50% of the people. By GDP, Antofagasta punches above its population: 3.0% of the people, 11% of the economy.
| Region | Land | People | GDP |
|---|---|---|---|
| Región Metropolitana de Santiago | 2.2 | 41 | 41 |
| Valparaíso | 2.5 | 11 | 8.6 |
| Bío-Bío | 3.4 | 9.0 | 7.5 |
| La Araucanía | 4.7 | 6.1 | 3.7 |
| Maule | 3.9 | 5.9 | 4.2 |
| Libertador General Bernardo O'Higgins | 2.2 | 5.4 | 5.0 |
| Los Lagos | 6.6 | 4.7 | 3.9 |
| Coquimbo | 5.3 | 4.5 | 3.9 |
| Antofagasta | 16 | 3.0 | 11 |
| Ñuble | 1.9 | 2.5 | 1.8 |
| Tarapacá | 5.5 | 2.2 | 3.5 |
| Los Ríos | 2.2 | 1.8 | 1.3 |
| Atacama | 11 | 1.7 | 2.6 |
| Arica y Parinacota | 2.2 | 0.80 | 0.50 |
| Aisén del General Carlos Ibáñez del Campo | 14 | 0.60 | 0.80 |
| Magallanes y Antártica Chilena | 17 | 0.50 | 0.50 |
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.