Country · 12 regions
Where Jordan's land ends up, by people and by money
Every block on the map is 0.1% of Jordan. By land, Amman holds 9.4%. By people, it holds 39%. Ma`an goes the other way, from 37% of the land to 1.5% of the people.
| Region | Land | People | GDP |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amman | 9.4 | 39 | 49 |
| Irbid | 2.3 | 17 | 13 |
| Zarqa | 4.6 | 16 | 13 |
| Balqa | 1.4 | 7.7 | 6.8 |
| Mafraq | 30 | 5.4 | 3.6 |
| Karak | 3.6 | 3.4 | 3.2 |
| Ajlun | 0.40 | 2.2 | 2.0 |
| Jarash | 0.59 | 2.2 | 2.1 |
| Madaba | 1.5 | 2.1 | 1.8 |
| Aqaba | 7.3 | 1.9 | 3.2 |
| Ma`an | 37 | 1.5 | 1.3 |
| Tafilah | 2.4 | 1.1 | 1.0 |
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.