Country · 9 regions
Where Japan's land ends up, by people and by money
Every block on the map is 0.1% of Japan. By land, Kanto holds 9.4%. By people, it holds 35%. Hokkaido goes the other way, from 22% of the land to 4.2% of the people.
| Region | Land | People | GDP |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kanto | 9.4 | 35 | 39 |
| Kinki | 8.8 | 18 | 17 |
| Chubu | 18 | 17 | 18 |
| Kyushu | 9.3 | 8.6 | 7.2 |
| Tohoku | 18 | 6.9 | 6.7 |
| Chugoku | 8.6 | 5.9 | 5.4 |
| Hokkaido | 22 | 4.2 | 3.6 |
| Shikoku | 5.3 | 3.0 | 2.5 |
| Okinawa | 1.0 | 1.2 | 0.80 |
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.