Country · 22 regions
Where Libya's land ends up, by people and by money
Every block on the map is 0.1% of Libya. By land, Tajura' wa an Nawahi al Arba holds 0.20%. By people, it holds 20%. Al Kufrah goes the other way, from 26% of the land to 0.90% of the people.
GDP for Libya is modelled from its national total, so the GDP map mostly repeats the population map.
| Region | Land | People | GDP |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tajura' wa an Nawahi al Arba | 0.20 | 20 | 25 |
| Benghazi | 0.70 | 13 | 14 |
| Az Zawiyah | 0.30 | 11 | 9.3 |
| Al Marqab | 0.50 | 8.7 | 7.4 |
| Misratah | 3.0 | 6.8 | 7.8 |
| Mizdah | 5.3 | 5.2 | 4.4 |
| An Nuqat al Khams | 0.40 | 5.0 | 5.1 |
| Al Marj | 0.90 | 4.1 | 4.0 |
| Al Jabal al Akhdar | 0.30 | 3.6 | 2.5 |
| Ajdabiya | 12 | 3.1 | 2.7 |
| Al Butnan | 4.7 | 2.6 | 2.5 |
| Al Qubbah | 1.5 | 2.6 | 2.1 |
| Surt | 2.8 | 2.4 | 2.0 |
| Sabha | 1.0 | 2.3 | 2.2 |
| Ghadamis | 4.2 | 1.7 | 1.5 |
| Ash Shati' | 6.0 | 1.4 | 1.4 |
| Murzuq | 17 | 1.4 | 1.2 |
| Al Jifarah | 0.10 | 1.3 | 1.2 |
| Wadi al Hayaa | 2.0 | 1.3 | 1.4 |
| Al Jufrah | 6.9 | 0.90 | 1.3 |
| Al Kufrah | 26 | 0.90 | 1.2 |
| Ghat | 3.4 | 0.10 | 0.40 |
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.