Country · 17 regions
Where Laos' land ends up, by people and by money
Every block on the map is 0.1% of Laos. By land, Vientiane [prefecture] holds 1.6%. By people, it holds 7.5%. Phôngsali goes the other way, from 6.8% of the land to 2.7% of the people.
GDP for Laos is modelled from its national total, so the GDP map mostly repeats the population map.
| Region | Land | People | GDP |
|---|---|---|---|
| Savannakhét | 9.3 | 14 | 15 |
| Champasak | 6.5 | 12 | 15 |
| Vientiane [prefecture] | 1.6 | 7.5 | 15 |
| Vientiane | 8.3 | 7.1 | 6.3 |
| Louangphrabang | 8.7 | 6.9 | 6.7 |
| Saravan | 4.3 | 6.9 | 5.8 |
| Khammouan | 7.0 | 6.6 | 5.9 |
| Xaignabouri | 7.2 | 6.2 | 4.1 |
| Bolikhamxai | 7.2 | 5.8 | 4.1 |
| Oudômxai | 4.9 | 5.5 | 4.8 |
| Xiangkhoang | 5.5 | 4.1 | 4.2 |
| Houaphan | 7.4 | 3.8 | 2.5 |
| Louang Namtha | 4.4 | 3.2 | 2.4 |
| Bokeo | 3.2 | 3.0 | 2.9 |
| Phôngsali | 6.8 | 2.7 | 2.1 |
| Attapu | 4.0 | 2.5 | 1.9 |
| Xékong | 3.8 | 2.0 | 1.6 |
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.