Country · 17 regions
Where South Korea's land ends up, by people and by money
Every block on the map is 0.1% of South Korea. By land, Seoul holds 0.70%. By people, it holds 19%. Gangwon goes the other way, from 19% of the land to 3.0% of the people.
| Region | Land | People | GDP |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gyeonggi | 10 | 26 | 26 |
| Seoul | 0.70 | 19 | 23 |
| Busan | 0.40 | 6.5 | 3.9 |
| South Gyeongsang | 9.9 | 6.3 | 5.8 |
| Incheon | 0.30 | 5.7 | 5.6 |
| North Gyeongsang | 19 | 5.0 | 5.8 |
| Daegu | 0.40 | 4.6 | 2.8 |
| South Chungcheong | 7.8 | 4.1 | 5.8 |
| North Jeolla | 8.2 | 3.5 | 2.7 |
| South Jeolla | 12 | 3.5 | 4.6 |
| North Chungcheong | 7.8 | 3.1 | 4.1 |
| Gangwon | 19 | 3.0 | 2.6 |
| Daejeon | 0.20 | 2.8 | 2.2 |
| Gwangju | 0.10 | 2.8 | 0.70 |
| Ulsan | 1.2 | 2.2 | 3.4 |
| Jeju | 2.0 | 1.3 | 0.60 |
| Sejong | 0.40 | 0.70 | 0.20 |
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.