Land vs People

Country · 11 regions

Where Saint Lucia's land ends up, by people and by money

Every block on the map is 0.1% of Saint Lucia. By land, Castries holds 13%. By people, it holds 34%. Soufrière goes the other way, from 16% of the land to 6.6% of the people.

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

Share of Saint Lucia by region, in percent
RegionLandPeopleGDP
Castries133441
Gros Islet7.61924
Anse-la-Raye138.69.6
Vieux Fort6.77.03.9
Laborie5.76.83.8
Soufrière166.63.8
Micoud5.85.64.0
Dennery105.54.8
Choiseul6.33.92.2
Praslin9.32.01.4
Dauphin7.71.21.4

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.