Country · 16 regions
Where Kazakhstan's land ends up, by people and by money
Every block on the map is 0.1% of Kazakhstan. By land, South Kazakhstan holds 4.1%. By people, it holds 19%. Qaraghandy goes the other way, from 16% of the land to 7.0% of the people. By GDP, Atyrau punches above its population: 2.6% of the people, 8.4% of the economy.
| Region | Land | People | GDP |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Kazakhstan | 4.1 | 19 | 8.3 |
| Almaty | 8.2 | 12 | 11 |
| Almaty City | 0.00 | 10 | 14 |
| Qaraghandy | 16 | 7.0 | 8.2 |
| East Kazakhstan | 10 | 6.9 | 6.2 |
| Astana | 0.10 | 6.0 | 10 |
| Zhambyl | 5.2 | 5.8 | 2.5 |
| Aqmola | 5.7 | 4.7 | 5.7 |
| Aqtöbe | 11 | 4.7 | 4.2 |
| Mangghystau | 6.3 | 4.6 | 5.5 |
| Pavlodar | 4.7 | 3.8 | 4.2 |
| Qyzylorda | 8.2 | 3.8 | 2.2 |
| Qostanay | 7.5 | 3.7 | 3.3 |
| West Kazakhstan | 5.7 | 2.9 | 3.8 |
| Atyrau | 3.8 | 2.6 | 8.4 |
| North Kazakhstan | 3.4 | 2.3 | 1.7 |
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.