Country · 12 regions
Where Congo's land ends up, by people and by money
Every block on the map is 0.1% of Congo. By land, Brazzaville holds 1.7%. By people, it holds 50%. Sangha goes the other way, from 17% of the land to 1.4% of the people.
GDP for Congo is modelled from its national total, so the GDP map mostly repeats the population map.
| Region | Land | People | GDP |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brazzaville | 1.7 | 50 | 56 |
| Likouala | 20 | 23 | 15 |
| Kouilou | 4.0 | 7.5 | 7.7 |
| Pointe Noire | 0.10 | 4.5 | 8.2 |
| Bouenza | 3.8 | 2.9 | 3.0 |
| Cuvette-Ouest | 7.3 | 2.6 | 2.4 |
| Cuvette | 13 | 2.2 | 2.1 |
| Lékoumou | 5.7 | 2.1 | 2.2 |
| Niari | 8.4 | 1.6 | 1.5 |
| Sangha | 17 | 1.4 | 1.1 |
| Plateaux | 11 | 1.2 | 0.80 |
| Pool | 8.3 | 0.70 | 0.00 |
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.