Country · 31 regions
Where China's land ends up, by people and by money
Every block on the map is 0.1% of China. By land, Guangdong holds 1.7%. By people, it holds 8.9%. Xinjiang goes the other way, from 17% of the land to 1.8% of the people. By GDP, Jiangsu punches above its population: 6.0% of the people, 11% of the economy.
| Region | Land | People | GDP |
|---|---|---|---|
| Guangdong | 1.7 | 8.9 | 10 |
| Shandong | 1.8 | 7.2 | 7.0 |
| Henan | 1.7 | 7.1 | 4.8 |
| Jiangsu | 1.2 | 6.0 | 11 |
| Sichuan | 5.5 | 5.9 | 4.2 |
| Hebei | 2.0 | 5.3 | 3.7 |
| Hunan | 2.0 | 4.7 | 3.9 |
| Zhejiang | 1.2 | 4.6 | 5.9 |
| Anhui | 1.4 | 4.3 | 3.7 |
| Hubei | 2.0 | 4.1 | 4.0 |
| Guangxi | 2.6 | 3.6 | 2.0 |
| Yunnan | 4.2 | 3.4 | 2.4 |
| Jiangxi | 1.8 | 3.2 | 2.8 |
| Liaoning | 1.6 | 3.0 | 2.6 |
| Fujian | 1.2 | 2.9 | 3.6 |
| Shaanxi | 2.1 | 2.8 | 2.5 |
| Guizhou | 2.1 | 2.7 | 1.5 |
| Shanxi | 1.7 | 2.5 | 2.3 |
| Chongqing | 0.80 | 2.3 | 2.4 |
| Heilongjiang | 5.2 | 2.3 | 1.6 |
| Shanghai | 0.10 | 1.8 | 5.4 |
| Xinjiang | 17 | 1.8 | 1.4 |
| Gansu | 4.3 | 1.7 | 0.90 |
| Inner Mongol | 12 | 1.7 | 1.9 |
| Jilin | 1.8 | 1.7 | 1.3 |
| Beijing | 0.30 | 1.6 | 4.1 |
| Tianjin | 0.10 | 1.0 | 1.6 |
| Hainan | 0.40 | 0.70 | 0.50 |
| Ningxia | 0.50 | 0.50 | 0.40 |
| Qinghai | 7.6 | 0.40 | 0.30 |
| Xizang | 12 | 0.30 | 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.