Country · 22 regions
Where Guatemala's land ends up, by people and by money
Every block on the map is 0.1% of Guatemala. By land, Guatemala holds 1.9%. By people, it holds 19%. Petén goes the other way, from 33% of the land to 5.1% of the people.
| Region | Land | People | GDP |
|---|---|---|---|
| Guatemala | 1.9 | 19 | 46 |
| Alta Verapaz | 9.1 | 8.3 | 4.2 |
| Huehuetenango | 7.0 | 7.7 | 2.5 |
| Quiché | 6.6 | 7.2 | 3.0 |
| San Marcos | 3.2 | 7.1 | 3.6 |
| Petén | 33 | 5.1 | 2.2 |
| Quezaltenango | 1.8 | 5.1 | 4.2 |
| Chimaltenango | 1.6 | 4.3 | 2.6 |
| Escuintla | 4.5 | 4.2 | 5.0 |
| Suchitepéquez | 2.0 | 3.7 | 4.5 |
| Totonicapán | 1.1 | 3.5 | 1.7 |
| Sololá | 1.1 | 3.2 | 2.0 |
| Izabal | 7.7 | 2.8 | 3.4 |
| Jutiapa | 3.0 | 2.8 | 1.0 |
| Chiquimula | 2.3 | 2.5 | 2.4 |
| Sacatepéquez | 0.70 | 2.5 | 3.2 |
| Santa Rosa | 2.8 | 2.3 | 1.6 |
| Jalapa | 1.7 | 2.2 | 1.1 |
| Baja Verapaz | 2.8 | 2.1 | 1.0 |
| Retalhuleu | 1.9 | 2.1 | 2.4 |
| Zacapa | 2.5 | 1.3 | 1.0 |
| El Progreso | 1.8 | 1.1 | 1.1 |
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.