Country · 16 regions
Where United Kingdom's land ends up, by people and by money
Every block on the map is 0.1% of United Kingdom. By land, Greater London holds 0.60%. By people, it holds 13%. Highlands and Islands goes the other way, from 17% of the land to 0.70% of the people.
| Region | Land | People | GDP |
|---|---|---|---|
| South East | 7.7 | 14 | 16 |
| Greater London | 0.60 | 13 | 20 |
| North West | 6.0 | 12 | 10 |
| East | 8.0 | 9.2 | 9.0 |
| West Midlands | 5.2 | 8.8 | 7.9 |
| South West | 10 | 8.5 | 7.7 |
| Yorkshire and the Humber | 5.9 | 8.2 | 7.1 |
| East Midlands | 6.6 | 7.2 | 6.1 |
| North East | 3.8 | 3.9 | 3.0 |
| South Western | 5.2 | 3.5 | 3.1 |
| Eastern | 7.6 | 3.1 | 3.1 |
| Northern Ireland | 5.4 | 2.9 | 2.5 |
| East Wales | 5.3 | 2.5 | 2.0 |
| West Wales and the Valleys | 3.3 | 1.7 | 1.6 |
| Highlands and Islands | 17 | 0.70 | 0.60 |
| North Eastern | 2.7 | 0.70 | 0.90 |
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.