Land vs People

Country · 20 regions

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

Every block on the map is 0.1% of Croatia. By land, Grad Zagreb holds 1.3%. By people, it holds 22%. Zadarska goes the other way, from 11% of the land to 4.2% of the people.

Share of Croatia by region, in percent
RegionLandPeopleGDP
Grad Zagreb1.32239
Splitsko-Dalmatinska7.88.69.1
Zagrebacka4.77.36.8
Osjecko-Baranjska6.26.65.5
Primorsko-Goranska6.76.38.1
Brodsko-Posavska7.76.13.4
Sisacko-Moslavacka9.35.12.8
Istarska5.15.03.5
Varaždinska2.14.23.1
Zadarska114.24.0
Vukovarsko-Srijemska4.13.82.3
Krapinsko-Zagorska2.33.22.2
Karlovacka6.03.01.5
Medimurska1.42.82.0
Bjelovarsko-bilogorska4.62.71.4
Koprivničko-Križevačka3.22.71.6
Viroviticko-Podravska3.92.00.90
Dubrovacko-Neretvanska2.71.91.2
Šibensko-Kninska3.31.71.4
Licko-Senjska7.01.00.60

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.