Country · 39 regions
Where Moldova's land ends up, by people and by money
Every block on the map is 0.1% of Moldova. By land, Chişinău holds 0.50%. By people, it holds 13%. Comrat goes the other way, from 5.2% of the land to 3.1% of the people.
GDP for Moldova is modelled from its national total, so the GDP map mostly repeats the population map.
| Region | Land | People | GDP |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chişinău | 0.50 | 13 | 28 |
| Bender | 2.5 | 6.6 | 9.6 |
| Ialoveni | 2.1 | 5.5 | 9.3 |
| Cahul | 4.2 | 4.8 | 5.3 |
| Rezina | 4.2 | 4.2 | 4.1 |
| Hîncesti | 3.7 | 3.6 | 1.8 |
| Străşeni | 2.5 | 3.4 | 3.7 |
| Anenii Noi | 2.5 | 3.1 | 3.3 |
| Comrat | 5.2 | 3.1 | 1.4 |
| Orhei | 3.1 | 2.8 | 1.7 |
| Ungheni | 3.4 | 2.8 | 1.5 |
| Criuleni | 2.4 | 2.7 | 3.9 |
| Drochia | 2.4 | 2.7 | 1.6 |
| Cimişlia | 3.8 | 2.5 | 1.6 |
| Făleşti | 3.6 | 2.4 | 1.4 |
| Soroca | 2.3 | 2.4 | 2.4 |
| Causeni | 3.7 | 2.3 | 2.2 |
| Floreşti | 2.4 | 2.3 | 1.1 |
| Sîngerei | 2.8 | 2.3 | 1.2 |
| Bălţi | 0.20 | 2.1 | 1.5 |
| Edineţ | 3.0 | 2.1 | 0.80 |
| Teleneşti | 2.7 | 1.9 | 0.90 |
| Briceni | 2.2 | 1.8 | 0.80 |
| Călărași | 2.3 | 1.8 | 0.90 |
| Rîşcani | 3.2 | 1.6 | 0.80 |
| Ștefan Vodă | 3.2 | 1.6 | 0.80 |
| Cantemir | 2.8 | 1.5 | 0.70 |
| Glodeni | 2.4 | 1.5 | 0.80 |
| Nisporeni | 2.4 | 1.4 | 0.70 |
| Grigoriopol | 1.9 | 1.3 | 1.3 |
| Leova | 2.0 | 1.3 | 0.60 |
| Stîngă Nistrului | 2.0 | 1.3 | 0.90 |
| Taraclia | 2.3 | 1.3 | 0.50 |
| Ocniţa | 1.9 | 1.0 | 0.40 |
| Şoldăneşti | 1.6 | 1.0 | 0.60 |
| Camenca | 2.0 | 0.90 | 0.80 |
| Donduseni | 2.5 | 0.80 | 0.40 |
| Transnistria | 0.00 | 0.70 | 0.60 |
| Basarabeasca | 1.3 | 0.40 | 0.20 |
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.