Country · 31 regions
Where Iran's land ends up, by people and by money
Every block on the map is 0.1% of Iran. By land, Tehran holds 0.99%. By people, it holds 15%. Sistan and Baluchestan goes the other way, from 11% of the land to 2.7% of the people. By GDP, Khuzestan punches above its population: 6.1% of the people, 16% of the economy.
| Region | Land | People | GDP |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tehran | 0.99 | 15 | 20 |
| Razavi Khorasan | 8.5 | 11 | 7.4 |
| Fars | 7.6 | 10 | 8.4 |
| Khuzestan | 4.0 | 6.1 | 16 |
| Esfahan | 6.5 | 5.7 | 5.3 |
| Kerman | 11 | 5.1 | 4.1 |
| East Azarbaijan | 3.0 | 3.8 | 2.7 |
| West Azarbaijan | 2.4 | 3.6 | 1.8 |
| Mazandaran | 1.5 | 3.5 | 3.0 |
| Alborz | 0.20 | 3.2 | 3.5 |
| Sistan and Baluchestan | 11 | 2.7 | 1.1 |
| Hamadan | 1.3 | 2.6 | 1.6 |
| Gilan | 0.79 | 2.4 | 1.8 |
| Lorestan | 1.8 | 2.1 | 1.2 |
| Markazi | 1.7 | 2.0 | 2.2 |
| Golestan | 1.3 | 1.9 | 1.0 |
| Kermanshah | 1.5 | 1.9 | 1.2 |
| Ardebil | 1.4 | 1.8 | 1.1 |
| Hormozgan | 4.3 | 1.7 | 1.6 |
| Kordestan | 1.7 | 1.5 | 0.80 |
| Bushehr | 1.6 | 1.3 | 5.1 |
| Qazvin | 0.99 | 1.3 | 1.2 |
| Qom | 0.69 | 1.3 | 0.80 |
| Semnan | 5.5 | 1.3 | 0.90 |
| Yazd | 7.9 | 1.2 | 1.5 |
| Chahar Mahall and Bakhtiari | 1.1 | 1.1 | 0.70 |
| North Khorasan | 1.8 | 1.1 | 0.50 |
| Zanjan | 1.3 | 1.1 | 0.80 |
| Kohgiluyeh and Buyer Ahmad | 0.69 | 0.80 | 1.9 |
| South Khorasan | 5.0 | 0.60 | 0.30 |
| Ilam | 1.2 | 0.50 | 0.80 |
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.