Country · 16 regions
Where Germany's land ends up, by people and by money
Every block on the map is 0.1% of Germany. By land, Nordrhein-Westfalen holds 9.4%. By people, it holds 22%. Brandenburg goes the other way, from 8.4% of the land to 3.1% of the people. By GDP, Bayern punches above its population: 16% of the people, 19% of the economy.
| Region | Land | People | GDP |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nordrhein-Westfalen | 9.4 | 22 | 21 |
| Bayern | 19 | 16 | 19 |
| Baden-Württemberg | 10 | 13 | 15 |
| Niedersachsen | 14 | 9.6 | 8.8 |
| Hessen | 6.1 | 7.6 | 8.5 |
| Rheinland-Pfalz | 5.5 | 4.9 | 4.5 |
| Sachsen | 5.1 | 4.9 | 3.8 |
| Berlin | 0.40 | 4.4 | 4.4 |
| Schleswig-Holstein | 4.5 | 3.5 | 2.8 |
| Brandenburg | 8.4 | 3.1 | 2.2 |
| Sachsen-Anhalt | 5.3 | 2.6 | 1.9 |
| Thüringen | 4.6 | 2.6 | 1.8 |
| Hamburg | 0.20 | 2.2 | 3.4 |
| Mecklenburg-Vorpommern | 6.3 | 1.9 | 1.3 |
| Saarland | 0.80 | 1.2 | 1.1 |
| Bremen | 0.10 | 0.80 | 0.80 |
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.