Continent · 39 countries
Where Europe's land ends up, by people and by money
Every block on the map is 0.1% of Europe. By land, Bosnia and Herzegovina holds 0.60%. By people, it holds 19%. Russia goes the other way, from 41% of the land to 12% of the people. By GDP, Ireland punches above its population: 3.2% of the people, 9.3% of the economy.
| Country | Land | People | GDP |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 0.60 | 19 | 8.5 |
| Russia | 41 | 12 | 10 |
| Germany | 4.0 | 9.4 | 13 |
| United Kingdom | 2.7 | 7.6 | 8.4 |
| France | 5.6 | 7.2 | 8.7 |
| Italy | 3.0 | 6.5 | 7.5 |
| Spain | 5.1 | 5.0 | 5.5 |
| Poland | 3.2 | 4.5 | 4.3 |
| Ukraine | 5.7 | 4.1 | 1.5 |
| Ireland | 0.89 | 3.2 | 9.3 |
| Romania | 2.3 | 2.2 | 2.0 |
| Netherlands | 0.10 | 2.0 | 3.0 |
| Belgium | 0.40 | 1.3 | 1.9 |
| Czech Republic | 0.70 | 1.2 | 1.3 |
| Sweden | 4.1 | 1.2 | 1.6 |
| Belarus | 2.1 | 1.1 | 0.70 |
| Greece | 1.5 | 1.1 | 0.90 |
| Hungary | 0.89 | 1.1 | 1.0 |
| Portugal | 1.1 | 1.1 | 1.1 |
| Austria | 0.99 | 1.0 | 1.4 |
| Switzerland | 0.60 | 1.0 | 1.7 |
| Republic of Serbia | 0.79 | 0.90 | 0.50 |
| Croatia | 0.70 | 0.80 | 0.40 |
| Bulgaria | 0.99 | 0.70 | 0.60 |
| Denmark | 0.20 | 0.60 | 0.90 |
| Finland | 3.2 | 0.60 | 0.80 |
| Norway | 3.5 | 0.50 | 1.1 |
| Moldova | 0.40 | 0.40 | 0.20 |
| Slovakia | 0.50 | 0.40 | 0.60 |
| Albania | 0.30 | 0.30 | 0.10 |
| Lithuania | 0.50 | 0.30 | 0.30 |
| Slovenia | 0.20 | 0.30 | 0.30 |
| Estonia | 0.30 | 0.20 | 0.10 |
| Kosovo | 0.10 | 0.20 | 0.10 |
| Latvia | 0.70 | 0.20 | 0.20 |
| Macedonia | 0.30 | 0.20 | 0.10 |
| Luxembourg | 0.00 | 0.10 | 0.20 |
| Montenegro | 0.20 | 0.10 | 0.00 |
| Iceland | 0.99 | 0.00 | 0.10 |
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.