Country · 11 regions
Where Congo, The Democratic Republic of the's land ends up, by people and by money
Every block on the map is 0.1% of Congo, The Democratic Republic of the. By land, Kinshasa City holds 0.50%. By people, it holds 12%. Orientale goes the other way, from 21% of the land to 10% of the people.
GDP for Congo, The Democratic Republic of the is modelled from its national total, so the GDP map mostly repeats the population map.
| Region | Land | People | GDP |
|---|---|---|---|
| Katanga | 20 | 25 | 23 |
| Kinshasa City | 0.50 | 12 | 23 |
| Kasaï-Occidental | 6.9 | 11 | 9.1 |
| Orientale | 21 | 10 | 7.7 |
| Équateur | 18 | 8.6 | 6.3 |
| Kasaï-Oriental | 6.9 | 7.9 | 8.5 |
| Nord-Kivu | 2.5 | 7.2 | 7.6 |
| Bandundu | 13 | 6.2 | 4.4 |
| Sud-Kivu | 2.5 | 4.6 | 4.4 |
| Bas-Congo | 2.7 | 4.2 | 3.7 |
| Maniema | 6.1 | 2.3 | 1.5 |
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.