Country · 36 regions
Where India's land ends up, by people and by money
Every block on the map is 0.1% of India. By land, Uttar Pradesh holds 7.6%. By people, it holds 17%. Rajasthan goes the other way, from 10% of the land to 5.9% of the people. By GDP, Maharashtra punches above its population: 9.0% of the people, 13% of the economy.
| Region | Land | People | GDP |
|---|---|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 7.6 | 17 | 7.7 |
| Bihar | 2.7 | 9.1 | 2.9 |
| Maharashtra | 9.9 | 9.0 | 13 |
| West Bengal | 2.6 | 7.2 | 6.2 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 10 | 6.1 | 4.7 |
| Rajasthan | 10 | 5.9 | 4.9 |
| Tamil Nadu | 4.2 | 5.8 | 9.1 |
| Karnataka | 6.0 | 5.1 | 8.7 |
| Gujarat | 6.1 | 5.0 | 7.8 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 5.5 | 3.7 | 4.7 |
| Odisha | 5.0 | 3.3 | 2.4 |
| Kerala | 1.0 | 3.1 | 4.7 |
| Jharkhand | 2.5 | 2.8 | 1.4 |
| Telangana | 3.5 | 2.8 | 4.6 |
| Assam | 2.6 | 2.5 | 1.6 |
| Punjab | 1.8 | 2.2 | 2.4 |
| Chhattisgarh | 4.2 | 2.1 | 1.6 |
| Haryana | 1.4 | 2.1 | 3.6 |
| Delhi | 0.10 | 1.5 | 3.7 |
| Jammu and Kashmir | 1.6 | 1.1 | 0.80 |
| Uttarakhand | 1.5 | 0.80 | 1.1 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 1.6 | 0.50 | 0.70 |
| Meghalaya | 0.60 | 0.30 | 0.20 |
| Tripura | 0.40 | 0.30 | 0.30 |
| Manipur | 0.70 | 0.20 | 0.20 |
| Arunachal Pradesh | 2.7 | 0.10 | 0.20 |
| Chandigarh | 0.00 | 0.10 | 0.10 |
| Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu | 0.00 | 0.10 | 0.10 |
| Goa | 0.10 | 0.10 | 0.30 |
| Mizoram | 0.70 | 0.10 | 0.10 |
| Nagaland | 0.40 | 0.10 | 0.10 |
| Puducherry | 0.00 | 0.10 | 0.10 |
| Sikkim | 0.20 | 0.10 | 0.10 |
| Andaman and Nicobar | 0.20 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Ladakh | 2.1 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Lakshadweep | 0.20 | 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.