Country · 10 regions
Where Ghana's land ends up, by people and by money
Every block on the map is 0.1% of Ghana. By land, Greater Accra holds 1.6%. By people, it holds 16%. Northern goes the other way, from 28% of the land to 11% of the people.
GDP for Ghana is modelled from its national total, so the GDP map mostly repeats the population map.
| Region | Land | People | GDP |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ashanti | 10 | 23 | 26 |
| Greater Accra | 1.6 | 16 | 28 |
| Northern | 28 | 11 | 7.9 |
| Western | 11 | 9.8 | 9.1 |
| Eastern | 8.4 | 9.5 | 6.7 |
| Central | 4.0 | 8.9 | 7.1 |
| Brong Ahafo | 16 | 8.4 | 5.7 |
| Volta | 8.5 | 7.9 | 5.6 |
| Upper East | 3.5 | 3.2 | 2.0 |
| Upper West | 8.0 | 2.4 | 2.1 |
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.