Country · 18 regions
Where Hong Kong's land ends up, by people and by money
Every block on the map is 0.1% of Hong Kong. By land, Kwun Tong holds 1.1%. By people, it holds 9.5%. Islands goes the other way, from 14% of the land to 1.2% of the people. By GDP, Tsuen Wan punches above its population: 7.2% of the people, 7.3% of the economy.
GDP for Hong Kong is modelled from its national total, so the GDP map mostly repeats the population map.
| Region | Land | People | GDP |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yuen Long | 16 | 12 | 12 |
| Sha Tin | 6.3 | 9.8 | 9.8 |
| Kwun Tong | 1.1 | 9.5 | 9.5 |
| Kowloon City | 1.4 | 7.5 | 7.5 |
| Tsuen Wan | 6.8 | 7.2 | 7.3 |
| Tuen Mun | 6.3 | 6.1 | 6.1 |
| North | 13 | 6.0 | 5.8 |
| Sham Shui Po | 0.50 | 6.0 | 6.1 |
| Eastern | 1.6 | 5.7 | 5.7 |
| Sai Kung | 11 | 5.4 | 5.4 |
| Wong Tai Sin | 0.80 | 5.4 | 5.4 |
| Tai Po | 13 | 4.4 | 4.4 |
| Kwai Tsing | 1.2 | 3.8 | 3.8 |
| Southern | 4.7 | 3.5 | 3.5 |
| Yau Tsim Mong | 0.30 | 3.1 | 3.1 |
| Central and Western | 1.0 | 2.6 | 2.6 |
| Islands | 14 | 1.2 | 1.2 |
| Wan Chai | 0.60 | 1.2 | 1.2 |
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.