Country · 11 regions
Where Ethiopia's land ends up, by people and by money
Every block on the map is 0.1% of Ethiopia. By land, Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples holds 10%. By people, it holds 21%. Somali goes the other way, from 28% of the land to 5.6% of the people. By GDP, Addis Ababa punches above its population: 5.2% of the people, 15% of the economy.
GDP for Ethiopia is modelled from its national total, so the GDP map mostly repeats the population map.
| Region | Land | People | GDP |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oromiya | 29 | 38 | 30 |
| Amhara | 14 | 21 | 15 |
| Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples | 10 | 21 | 23 |
| Tigray | 4.4 | 5.8 | 6.3 |
| Somali | 28 | 5.6 | 6.2 |
| Addis Ababa | 0.00 | 5.2 | 15 |
| Afar | 8.1 | 1.7 | 1.3 |
| Benshangul-Gumaz | 4.0 | 1.1 | 1.0 |
| Gambela Peoples | 2.2 | 0.60 | 0.30 |
| Dire Dawa | 0.10 | 0.50 | 1.0 |
| Harari People | 0.00 | 0.20 | 0.40 |
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.