Country · 30 regions
Where Ireland's land ends up, by people and by money
Every block on the map is 0.1% of Ireland. By land, Dublin holds 0.10%. By people, it holds 11%. Mayo goes the other way, from 8.2% of the land to 2.6% of the people. By GDP, Cork punches above its population: 10% of the people, 21% of the economy.
| Region | Land | People | GDP |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dublin | 0.10 | 11 | 16 |
| Cork | 10 | 10 | 21 |
| South Dublin | 0.40 | 7.2 | 9.9 |
| Fingal | 0.50 | 6.0 | 4.5 |
| Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown | 0.30 | 5.1 | 5.8 |
| Galway | 8.9 | 5.1 | 3.1 |
| Kildare | 2.5 | 5.1 | 5.2 |
| Meath | 3.4 | 4.9 | 7.3 |
| Limerick | 4.0 | 3.5 | 3.2 |
| Donegal | 7.1 | 3.4 | 1.0 |
| Wexford | 3.2 | 3.2 | 2.2 |
| Wicklow | 2.7 | 2.9 | 2.5 |
| Kerry | 7.1 | 2.8 | 4.6 |
| Clare | 4.6 | 2.7 | 2.3 |
| Mayo | 8.2 | 2.6 | 1.1 |
| Louth | 1.0 | 2.3 | 1.9 |
| Kilkenny | 2.8 | 2.2 | 1.0 |
| Laoighis | 2.4 | 2.2 | 0.80 |
| Waterford | 2.9 | 2.1 | 1.5 |
| Cavan | 2.8 | 1.8 | 0.40 |
| Offaly | 3.0 | 1.8 | 0.50 |
| Westmeath | 2.7 | 1.8 | 0.50 |
| South Tipperary | 3.1 | 1.7 | 0.80 |
| North Tipperary | 3.0 | 1.5 | 0.80 |
| Roscommon | 3.7 | 1.5 | 0.60 |
| Monaghan | 1.6 | 1.3 | 0.30 |
| Sligo | 2.7 | 1.3 | 0.30 |
| Carlow | 1.4 | 1.2 | 0.80 |
| Longford | 1.6 | 1.0 | 0.20 |
| Leitrim | 2.3 | 0.70 | 0.20 |
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.