Country · 5 regions
Where Latvia's land ends up, by people and by money
Every block on the map is 0.1% of Latvia. By land, Riga holds 16%. By people, it holds 51%. Vidzeme goes the other way, from 23% of the land to 10% of the people.
| Region | Land | People | GDP |
|---|---|---|---|
| Riga | 16 | 51 | 56 |
| Latgale | 22 | 14 | 10 |
| Zemgale | 17 | 13 | 11 |
| Kurzeme | 21 | 12 | 12 |
| Vidzeme | 23 | 10 | 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.