Country · 8 regions
Where Kyrgyzstan's land ends up, by people and by money
Every block on the map is 0.1% of Kyrgyzstan. By land, Bishkek holds 0.10%. By people, it holds 18%. Naryn goes the other way, from 23% of the land to 4.4% of the people.
| Region | Land | People | GDP |
|---|---|---|---|
| Osh | 15 | 25 | 13 |
| Jalal-Abad | 17 | 20 | 12 |
| Bishkek | 0.10 | 18 | 40 |
| Chuy | 9.3 | 13 | 14 |
| Ysyk-Köl | 22 | 7.9 | 11 |
| Batken | 8.8 | 7.6 | 3.5 |
| Talas | 5.7 | 4.5 | 4.6 |
| Naryn | 23 | 4.4 | 2.3 |
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.