Country · 22 regions
Where Cabo Verde's land ends up, by people and by money
Every block on the map is 0.1% of Cabo Verde. By land, São Salvador do Mundo holds 1.2%. By people, it holds 25%. Porto Novo goes the other way, from 14% of the land to 1.3% of the people. By GDP, São Vicente punches above its population: 19% of the people, 35% of the economy.
GDP for Cabo Verde is modelled from its national total, so the GDP map mostly repeats the population map.
| Region | Land | People | GDP |
|---|---|---|---|
| São Salvador do Mundo | 1.2 | 25 | 25 |
| São Vicente | 6.5 | 19 | 35 |
| Santa Catarina | 7.2 | 9.4 | 6.7 |
| Tarrafal | 3.5 | 7.2 | 5.0 |
| São Lourenço dos Órgãos | 0.60 | 6.8 | 6.8 |
| Boa Vista | 16 | 4.7 | 3.6 |
| Santa Catarina do Fogo | 1.7 | 4.2 | 2.3 |
| Ribeira Grande | 4.1 | 3.6 | 2.0 |
| Sal | 4.9 | 3.5 | 1.9 |
| Praia | 1.4 | 2.2 | 1.6 |
| Paul | 0.90 | 2.1 | 1.2 |
| São Filipe | 7.4 | 1.8 | 1.0 |
| São Domingos | 2.9 | 1.5 | 1.4 |
| Ribeira Brava | 5.9 | 1.4 | 1.1 |
| Maio | 7.0 | 1.3 | 0.80 |
| Porto Novo | 14 | 1.3 | 0.60 |
| Ribeira Grande de Santiago | 3.7 | 1.3 | 1.2 |
| Santa Cruz | 2.3 | 1.1 | 1.1 |
| Brava | 1.6 | 1.0 | 0.60 |
| Tarrafal de São Nicolau | 2.8 | 1.0 | 0.90 |
| Mosteiros | 2.6 | 0.30 | 0.20 |
| São Miguel | 1.6 | 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.