Country · 18 regions
Where Iraq's land ends up, by people and by money
Every block on the map is 0.1% of Iraq. By land, Baghdad holds 0.20%. By people, it holds 13%. Al-Anbar goes the other way, from 31% of the land to 5.5% of the people.
GDP for Iraq is modelled from its national total, so the GDP map mostly repeats the population map.
| Region | Land | People | GDP |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baghdad | 0.20 | 13 | 20 |
| Ninawa | 8.7 | 10 | 11 |
| Al-Basrah | 4.2 | 7.5 | 8.3 |
| Sala ad-Din | 5.7 | 7.0 | 6.1 |
| Dihok | 1.5 | 6.5 | 5.9 |
| Arbil | 3.4 | 5.8 | 5.0 |
| Babil | 1.6 | 5.8 | 5.0 |
| Al-Anbar | 31 | 5.5 | 5.1 |
| Dhi-Qar | 3.3 | 5.5 | 4.7 |
| Diyala | 4.8 | 4.9 | 4.6 |
| As-Sulaymaniyah | 3.8 | 4.8 | 3.7 |
| At-Ta'mim | 2.5 | 4.2 | 3.8 |
| Al-Qādisiyyah | 1.8 | 4.1 | 3.4 |
| An-Najaf | 6.8 | 3.9 | 3.3 |
| Karbala' | 0.99 | 3.5 | 3.0 |
| Wasit | 4.0 | 3.4 | 2.7 |
| Maysan | 3.7 | 2.9 | 2.5 |
| Al-Muthannia | 12 | 2.2 | 2.5 |
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.