Country · 25 regions
Where Sri Lanka's land ends up, by people and by money
Every block on the map is 0.1% of Sri Lanka. By land, Gampaha holds 2.1%. By people, it holds 12%. Mŏṇarāgala goes the other way, from 8.7% of the land to 2.4% of the people. By GDP, Kŏḷamba punches above its population: 11% of the people, 19% of the economy.
| Region | Land | People | GDP |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gampaha | 2.1 | 12 | 14 |
| Kŏḷamba | 0.90 | 11 | 19 |
| Kuruṇægala | 7.2 | 8.3 | 7.6 |
| Mahanuvara | 2.9 | 6.9 | 9.1 |
| Kaḷutara | 2.3 | 6.4 | 7.5 |
| Ratnapura | 5.1 | 5.4 | 3.3 |
| Gālla | 2.5 | 5.1 | 5.5 |
| Anurādhapura | 11 | 4.6 | 4.1 |
| Kægalla | 2.4 | 4.1 | 4.4 |
| Badulla | 4.2 | 3.9 | 3.8 |
| Mātara | 2.0 | 3.8 | 3.3 |
| Puttalama | 4.9 | 3.7 | 3.2 |
| Ampāra | 7.2 | 3.3 | 2.1 |
| Nuvara Ĕliya | 2.9 | 3.3 | 1.0 |
| Hambantŏṭa | 4.2 | 3.1 | 1.7 |
| Mātale | 3.2 | 2.5 | 1.6 |
| Yāpanaya | 1.4 | 2.5 | 2.5 |
| Mŏṇarāgala | 8.7 | 2.4 | 1.4 |
| Pŏḷŏnnaruva | 5.1 | 2.1 | 1.6 |
| Maḍakalapuva | 4.0 | 1.9 | 1.5 |
| Trikuṇāmalaya | 4.0 | 1.9 | 1.5 |
| Vavuniyāva | 3.0 | 0.70 | 0.40 |
| Kilinŏchchi | 2.1 | 0.30 | 0.10 |
| Mannārama | 2.9 | 0.30 | 0.20 |
| Mulativ | 3.9 | 0.10 | 0.10 |
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.