Land vs People

Country · 16 regions

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

Every block on the map is 0.1% of Morocco. By land, Grand Casablanca holds 0.20%. By people, it holds 13%. Guelmim - Es-Semara goes the other way, from 18% of the land to 1.3% of the people.

Share of Morocco by region, in percent
RegionLandPeopleGDP
Grand Casablanca0.201319
Marrakech - Tensift - Al Haouz5.31110
Souss - Massa - Draâ12119.4
Tanger - Tétouan2.09.39.7
Rabat - Salé - Zemmour - Zaer1.57.58.3
Meknès - Tafilalet9.96.95.3
Doukkala - Abda2.46.45.6
Gharb - Chrarda - Béni Hssen1.66.46.6
Chaouia - Ouardigha2.96.16.9
Oriental9.56.04.9
Fès - Boulemane3.55.64.1
Taza - Al Hoceima - Taounate3.85.02.9
Tadla - Azilal2.84.65.3
Guelmim - Es-Semara181.31.0
Laâyoune - Boujdour - Sakia El Hamra130.800.40
Oued el Dahab130.300.20

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.