Country · 6 regions
Where Israel's land ends up, by people and by money
Every block on the map is 0.1% of Israel. By land, HaMerkaz holds 5.5%. By people, it holds 28%. HaDarom goes the other way, from 66% of the land to 14% of the people. By GDP, Tel Aviv punches above its population: 16% of the people, 24% of the economy.
GDP for Israel is modelled from its national total, so the GDP map mostly repeats the population map.
| Region | Land | People | GDP |
|---|---|---|---|
| HaMerkaz | 5.5 | 28 | 33 |
| Jerusalem | 2.5 | 17 | 4.8 |
| Tel Aviv | 0.80 | 16 | 24 |
| HaZafon | 21 | 16 | 15 |
| HaDarom | 66 | 14 | 13 |
| Haifa | 3.9 | 9.6 | 10 |
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.