Country · 6 regions
Where Greenland's land ends up, by people and by money
Every block on the map is 0.1% of Greenland. By land, Kommuneqarfik Sermersooq holds 25%. By people, it holds 47%. Nationalparken goes the other way, from 40% of the land to 0.00% of the people. By GDP, Qaasuitsup Kommunia punches above its population: 28% of the people, 34% of the economy.
GDP for Greenland is modelled from its national total, so the GDP map mostly repeats the population map.
| Region | Land | People | GDP |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kommuneqarfik Sermersooq | 25 | 47 | 42 |
| Qaasuitsup Kommunia | 28 | 28 | 34 |
| Qeqqata Kommunia | 4.7 | 19 | 18 |
| Kommune Kujalleq | 2.6 | 6.2 | 5.7 |
| Pituffik | 0.00 | 0.70 | 0.90 |
| Nationalparken | 40 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
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.