Land vs People

Country · 24 regions

Where Cambodia's land ends up, by people and by money

Every block on the map is 0.1% of Cambodia. By land, Phnom Penh holds 0.10%. By people, it holds 13%. Kaôh Kong goes the other way, from 7.0% of the land to 0.60% of the people.

GDP for Cambodia is modelled from its national total, so the GDP map mostly repeats the population map.

Share of Cambodia by region, in percent
RegionLandPeopleGDP
Siemréab7.81615
Phnom Penh0.101331
Batdâmbâng6.89.59.2
Kâmpóng Cham5.18.55.6
Kândal2.18.011
Bântéay Méanchey3.44.46.3
Takêv2.24.42.6
Prey Vêng2.74.32.4
Kâmpóng Spœ3.64.12.8
Kâmpóng Thum7.63.51.7
Kâmpôt2.73.21.7
Kâmpóng Chhnang2.82.60.20
Krong Pailin0.802.51.9
Pouthisat7.22.41.2
Krâchéh6.52.21.0
Svay Rieng1.32.21.3
Otdar Mean Chey1.92.11.1
Preah Vihéar7.41.70.71
Rôtânôkiri6.51.40.51
Krong Preah Sihanouk0.601.11.7
Stœng Trêng6.50.900.41
Môndól Kiri7.10.800.30
Kaôh Kong7.00.600.30
Kep0.000.200.10

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.