Land vs People

Country · 42 regions

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

Every block on the map is 0.1% of Hungary. By land, Budapest holds 0.50%. By people, it holds 19%. Bács-Kiskun goes the other way, from 8.7% of the land to 3.8% of the people.

Share of Hungary by region, in percent
RegionLandPeopleGDP
Budapest0.501939
Pest6.91111
Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén7.44.72.7
Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg5.54.62.1
Bács-Kiskun8.73.82.7
Veszprém5.43.72.8
Hajdú-Bihar5.93.62.3
Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok5.63.01.8
Fejér4.12.92.4
Gyor-Moson-Sopron4.22.82.7
Békés5.82.61.5
Debrecen0.802.62.2
Heves3.22.51.5
Somogy6.22.31.5
Komárom-Esztergom2.32.22.0
Miskolc0.502.01.6
Baranya4.71.91.0
Csongrád3.41.91.3
Tolna3.71.81.2
Szeged0.401.71.4
Vas3.81.71.2
Pécs0.301.61.4
Gyôr0.201.51.6
Nógrád2.81.50.70
Nyíregyháza0.501.41.4
Kecskemét0.301.11.0
Székesfehérvár0.401.11.1
Zala3.41.10.70
Sopron0.200.810.80
Szolnok0.400.810.60
Szombathely0.100.810.90
Dunaújváros0.100.700.50
Békéscsaba0.200.600.30
Kaposvár0.200.600.30
Eger0.300.500.70
Hódmezôvásárhely0.800.500.40
Érd0.000.500.90
Nagykanizsa0.100.400.40
Salgótarján0.100.400.20
Tatabánya0.200.400.50
Szekszárd0.100.300.30
Zalaegerszeg0.100.300.20

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.