Country · 9 regions
Where Iceland's land ends up, by people and by money
Every block on the map is 0.1% of Iceland. By land, Reykjavík holds 0.20%. By people, it holds 64%. Austurland goes the other way, from 21% of the land to 2.5% of the people.
GDP for Iceland is modelled from its national total, so the GDP map mostly repeats the population map.
| Region | Land | People | GDP |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reykjavík | 0.20 | 64 | 73 |
| Suðurland | 24 | 8.3 | 4.8 |
| Suðurnes | 0.80 | 8.2 | 6.3 |
| Norðurland eystra | 22 | 8.0 | 9.0 |
| Vesturland | 9.3 | 4.0 | 2.0 |
| Austurland | 21 | 2.5 | 1.2 |
| Norðurland vestra | 12 | 2.1 | 0.89 |
| Vestfirðir | 9.7 | 1.9 | 1.5 |
| Höfuðborgarsvæði | 0.70 | 1.3 | 1.1 |
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.