Country · 11 regions
Where Cook Islands' land ends up, by people and by money
Every block on the map is 0.1% of Cook Islands. By land, Rarotonga holds 33%. By people, it holds 61%. Mangaia goes the other way, from 20% of the land to 3.1% of the people. By GDP, Aitutaki punches above its population: 0.00% of the people, 9.1% of the economy.
GDP for Cook Islands is modelled from its national total, so the GDP map mostly repeats the population map.
| Region | Land | People | GDP |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rarotonga | 33 | 61 | 9.1 |
| Palmerston | 7.7 | 29 | 9.1 |
| Atiu | 11 | 5.4 | 9.1 |
| Mangaia | 20 | 3.1 | 9.1 |
| Mauke | 6.7 | 1.3 | 9.1 |
| Mitiaro | 10 | 0.30 | 9.1 |
| Aitutaki | 1.8 | 0.00 | 9.1 |
| Manihiki | 1.4 | 0.00 | 9.1 |
| Penrhyn | 6.1 | 0.00 | 9.1 |
| Pukapuka | 0.80 | 0.00 | 9.1 |
| Rakahanga | 0.80 | 0.00 | 9.1 |
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.