Land vs People

Country · 3 regions

Where Luxembourg's land ends up, by people and by money

Every block on the map is 0.1% of Luxembourg. By land, Luxembourg holds 39%. By people, it holds 76%. Diekirch goes the other way, from 44% of the land to 15% of the people.

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

Share of Luxembourg by region, in percent
RegionLandPeopleGDP
Luxembourg397687
Diekirch44157.6
Grevenmacher178.85.5

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.