Country · 24 regions
Where Ecuador's land ends up, by people and by money
Every block on the map is 0.1% of Ecuador. By land, Guayas holds 5.8%. By people, it holds 24%. Pastaza goes the other way, from 11% of the land to 0.70% of the people. By GDP, Pichincha punches above its population: 19% of the people, 28% of the economy.
| Region | Land | People | GDP |
|---|---|---|---|
| Guayas | 5.8 | 24 | 25 |
| Pichincha | 3.5 | 19 | 28 |
| Manabi | 7.5 | 9.0 | 6.7 |
| Los Rios | 2.9 | 5.4 | 4.0 |
| Azuay | 3.1 | 5.2 | 5.9 |
| El Oro | 2.5 | 4.1 | 3.6 |
| Napo | 1.4 | 3.4 | 2.8 |
| Esmeraldas | 6.3 | 3.3 | 4.0 |
| Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas | 1.6 | 3.0 | 3.2 |
| Chimborazo | 2.2 | 2.9 | 1.9 |
| Cotopaxi | 2.4 | 2.8 | 2.1 |
| Loja | 4.3 | 2.8 | 1.6 |
| Imbabura | 1.9 | 2.6 | 2.0 |
| Santa Elena | 1.6 | 2.4 | 2.3 |
| Cañar | 1.8 | 1.5 | 1.1 |
| Orellana | 8.6 | 1.5 | 0.90 |
| Sucumbios | 7.2 | 1.5 | 0.80 |
| Morona Santiago | 9.3 | 1.2 | 0.70 |
| Bolivar | 1.5 | 1.1 | 0.60 |
| Tungurahua | 4.8 | 1.1 | 0.90 |
| Carchi | 1.3 | 1.0 | 0.50 |
| Pastaza | 11 | 0.70 | 0.30 |
| Zamora Chinchipe | 4.1 | 0.60 | 0.40 |
| Galápagos | 2.9 | 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.