Country · 32 regions
Where Dominican Republic's land ends up, by people and by money
Every block on the map is 0.1% of Dominican Republic. By land, Santo Domingo holds 2.6%. By people, it holds 31%. San Juan goes the other way, from 7.0% of the land to 1.9% of the people.
GDP for Dominican Republic is modelled from its national total, so the GDP map mostly repeats the population map.
| Region | Land | People | GDP |
|---|---|---|---|
| Santo Domingo | 2.6 | 31 | 38 |
| Distrito Nacional | 0.10 | 9.1 | 14 |
| Santiago | 5.6 | 9.1 | 9.4 |
| San Cristóbal | 2.5 | 5.6 | 5.8 |
| La Vega | 4.9 | 3.9 | 3.0 |
| San Pedro de Macorís | 2.4 | 3.0 | 2.6 |
| Duarte | 3.0 | 2.9 | 2.2 |
| La Altagracia | 6.6 | 2.8 | 2.1 |
| Espaillat | 1.6 | 2.6 | 2.1 |
| La Romana | 1.0 | 2.6 | 2.2 |
| Peravia | 1.8 | 2.5 | 2.1 |
| Puerto Plata | 4.0 | 2.4 | 1.9 |
| Azua | 5.3 | 2.0 | 1.4 |
| Monte Plata | 5.4 | 2.0 | 0.92 |
| San Juan | 7.0 | 1.9 | 1.4 |
| Valverde | 1.7 | 1.9 | 1.4 |
| Barahona | 3.4 | 1.7 | 1.3 |
| María Trinidad Sánchez | 2.9 | 1.5 | 1.1 |
| Monseñor Nouel | 1.8 | 1.5 | 0.61 |
| Sánchez Ramírez | 2.5 | 1.3 | 0.51 |
| Bahoruco | 2.6 | 1.1 | 0.81 |
| Monte Cristi | 3.9 | 1.0 | 0.71 |
| Hato Mayor | 2.8 | 0.90 | 0.61 |
| Samaná | 1.9 | 0.90 | 0.71 |
| Hermanas | 0.90 | 0.80 | 0.61 |
| Santiago Rodríguez | 2.4 | 0.80 | 0.31 |
| El Seybo | 4.0 | 0.70 | 0.51 |
| Pedernales | 4.2 | 0.70 | 0.31 |
| Independencia | 4.4 | 0.60 | 0.41 |
| La Estrelleta | 3.0 | 0.60 | 0.31 |
| Dajabón | 2.3 | 0.50 | 0.00 |
| San José de Ocoa | 1.7 | 0.50 | 0.31 |
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.