Land vs People

Country · 14 regions

Where Greece's land ends up, by people and by money

Every block on the map is 0.1% of Greece. By land, Attiki holds 2.9%. By people, it holds 36%. Stereá Elláda goes the other way, from 12% of the land to 4.7% of the people.

Share of Greece by region, in percent
RegionLandPeopleGDP
Attiki2.93648
Kentriki Makedonia151815
Thessalia116.85.6
Kriti6.26.25.2
Dytiki Ellada8.35.84.4
Anatoliki Makedonia kai Thraki115.43.7
Peloponnisos125.14.5
Stereá Elláda124.74.5
Ipeiros6.43.32.2
Notio Aigaio4.02.82.7
Dytiki Makedonia7.72.62.3
Ionioi Nisoi1.61.81.6
Voreio Aigaio2.71.71.1
Ayion Oros0.200.000.00

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.