Country · 10 regions
Where Lesotho's land ends up, by people and by money
Every block on the map is 0.1% of Lesotho. By land, Maseru holds 13%. By people, it holds 24%. Thaba-Tseka goes the other way, from 17% of the land to 7.1% of the people.
| Region | Land | People | GDP |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maseru | 13 | 24 | 32 |
| Berea | 6.9 | 15 | 16 |
| Leribe | 8.7 | 15 | 16 |
| Mafeteng | 9.1 | 9.2 | 7.9 |
| Mohale's Hoek | 11 | 7.8 | 5.3 |
| Thaba-Tseka | 17 | 7.1 | 6.9 |
| Mokhotlong | 13 | 6.5 | 2.8 |
| Quthing | 9.4 | 6.5 | 3.9 |
| Butha-Buthe | 5.7 | 5.4 | 5.6 |
| Qacha's Nek | 6.9 | 3.7 | 3.8 |
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.