Country · 7 regions
Where Costa Rica's land ends up, by people and by money
Every block on the map is 0.1% of Costa Rica. By land, San José holds 9.7%. By people, it holds 30%. Puntarenas goes the other way, from 22% of the land to 8.8% of the people.
GDP for Costa Rica is modelled from its national total, so the GDP map mostly repeats the population map.
| Region | Land | People | GDP |
|---|---|---|---|
| San José | 9.7 | 30 | 37 |
| Alajuela | 18 | 23 | 21 |
| Heredia | 5.4 | 12 | 15 |
| Cartago | 6.0 | 10 | 11 |
| Puntarenas | 22 | 8.8 | 5.3 |
| Limón | 19 | 8.3 | 6.5 |
| Guanacaste | 20 | 7.8 | 4.8 |
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.