Country · 18 regions
Where France's land ends up, by people and by money
Every block on the map is 0.1% of France. By land, Île-de-France holds 1.8%. By people, it holds 18%. Guyane française goes the other way, from 13% of the land to 0.40% of the people.
| Region | Land | People | GDP |
|---|---|---|---|
| Île-de-France | 1.8 | 18 | 31 |
| Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes | 11 | 12 | 12 |
| Nouvelle-Aquitaine | 13 | 9.0 | 7.6 |
| Hauts-de-France | 5.0 | 8.9 | 6.9 |
| Occitanie | 11 | 8.9 | 7.8 |
| Grand Est | 8.9 | 8.2 | 6.7 |
| Provence-Alpes-Côte-d'Azur | 4.7 | 7.5 | 6.7 |
| Pays de la Loire | 5.0 | 5.7 | 5.0 |
| Bretagne | 4.5 | 5.0 | 4.2 |
| Normandie | 4.6 | 4.9 | 4.0 |
| Bourgogne-Franche-Comté | 7.5 | 4.2 | 3.3 |
| Centre-Val de Loire | 6.5 | 3.8 | 3.3 |
| Réunion | 0.50 | 1.3 | 0.70 |
| Guadeloupe | 0.30 | 0.60 | 0.30 |
| Corse | 1.5 | 0.50 | 0.30 |
| Martinique | 0.30 | 0.50 | 0.30 |
| Mayotte | 0.10 | 0.50 | 0.10 |
| Guyane française | 13 | 0.40 | 0.20 |
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.