Country · 48 regions
Where Algeria's land ends up, by people and by money
Every block on the map is 0.1% of Algeria. By land, Blida holds 0.10%. By people, it holds 4.8%. Tamanghasset goes the other way, from 27% of the land to 0.50% of the people. By GDP, Alger punches above its population: 4.2% of the people, 8.4% of the economy.
GDP for Algeria is modelled from its national total, so the GDP map mostly repeats the population map.
| Region | Land | People | GDP |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blida | 0.10 | 4.8 | 6.5 |
| Djelfa | 1.4 | 4.4 | 4.0 |
| Oran | 0.20 | 4.3 | 6.1 |
| Alger | 0.00 | 4.2 | 8.4 |
| Sétif | 0.30 | 4.1 | 3.5 |
| Batna | 0.40 | 3.3 | 2.8 |
| Boumerdès | 0.00 | 3.2 | 4.7 |
| M'Sila | 0.90 | 3.2 | 2.6 |
| Tipaza | 0.10 | 3.1 | 4.3 |
| Chlef | 0.20 | 3.0 | 2.6 |
| Tlemcen | 0.40 | 2.8 | 2.3 |
| Constantine | 0.00 | 2.5 | 3.2 |
| Skikda | 0.20 | 2.5 | 2.1 |
| Tiaret | 0.80 | 2.5 | 2.0 |
| Tizi Ouzou | 0.10 | 2.5 | 2.3 |
| Biskra | 0.80 | 2.4 | 2.0 |
| Béjaïa | 0.20 | 2.4 | 2.1 |
| Mascara | 0.30 | 2.3 | 2.0 |
| Aïn Defla | 0.10 | 2.2 | 1.8 |
| El Oued | 2.2 | 2.2 | 1.9 |
| Mila | 0.20 | 2.1 | 1.8 |
| Mostaganem | 0.10 | 2.1 | 1.8 |
| Bouira | 0.20 | 2.0 | 1.5 |
| Médéa | 0.40 | 2.0 | 1.5 |
| Relizane | 0.20 | 2.0 | 1.6 |
| Laghouat | 1.2 | 1.9 | 1.7 |
| Oum el Bouaghi | 0.30 | 1.9 | 1.7 |
| Tébessa | 0.50 | 1.9 | 1.5 |
| Bordj Bou Arréridj | 0.20 | 1.8 | 1.5 |
| Ouargla | 9.0 | 1.8 | 1.7 |
| Jijel | 0.10 | 1.7 | 1.4 |
| Sidi Bel Abbès | 0.40 | 1.7 | 1.6 |
| Annaba | 0.10 | 1.5 | 1.7 |
| Adrar | 20 | 1.4 | 1.4 |
| Guelma | 0.10 | 1.3 | 1.1 |
| Souk Ahras | 0.20 | 1.3 | 1.2 |
| El Tarf | 0.20 | 1.2 | 1.0 |
| Khenchela | 0.40 | 1.2 | 0.90 |
| Ghardaïa | 3.3 | 1.1 | 0.90 |
| Saïda | 0.40 | 1.0 | 0.80 |
| Naâma | 1.3 | 0.90 | 0.70 |
| Tissemsilt | 0.20 | 0.90 | 0.60 |
| Aïn Témouchent | 0.10 | 0.80 | 0.70 |
| Béchar | 7.1 | 0.80 | 0.80 |
| El Bayadh | 3.0 | 0.80 | 0.60 |
| Tamanghasset | 27 | 0.50 | 0.60 |
| Tindouf | 6.6 | 0.30 | 0.20 |
| Illizi | 8.3 | 0.20 | 0.30 |
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.