Country · 14 regions
Where Jamaica's land ends up, by people and by money
Every block on the map is 0.1% of Jamaica. By land, Saint Andrew holds 3.7%. By people, it holds 20%. Saint Ann goes the other way, from 11% of the land to 5.8% of the people.
GDP for Jamaica is modelled from its national total, so the GDP map mostly repeats the population map.
| Region | Land | People | GDP |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saint Catherine | 11 | 20 | 25 |
| Saint Andrew | 3.7 | 20 | 30 |
| Clarendon | 11 | 9.6 | 6.2 |
| Saint James | 5.8 | 7.3 | 8.4 |
| Manchester | 7.5 | 7.1 | 6.6 |
| Saint Ann | 11 | 5.8 | 2.9 |
| Saint Elizabeth | 11 | 5.5 | 2.7 |
| Westmoreland | 6.5 | 5.2 | 2.2 |
| Kingston | 0.30 | 4.7 | 7.5 |
| Saint Mary | 5.7 | 3.8 | 2.2 |
| Saint Thomas | 6.7 | 3.4 | 1.7 |
| Trelawny | 8.2 | 2.7 | 1.9 |
| Portland | 7.5 | 2.6 | 1.3 |
| Hanover | 4.6 | 2.2 | 1.2 |
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.