Country · 21 regions
Where Maldives' land ends up, by people and by money
Every block on the map is 0.1% of Maldives. By land, Malé holds 32%. By people, it holds 99%. Addu goes the other way, from 11% of the land to 0.40% of the people.
GDP for Maldives is modelled from its national total, so the GDP map mostly repeats the population map.
| Region | Land | People | GDP |
|---|---|---|---|
| Malé | 32 | 99 | 99 |
| Laamu | 6.0 | 0.60 | 0.40 |
| Addu | 11 | 0.40 | 0.40 |
| Haa Alifu | 7.0 | 0.10 | 0.00 |
| Thaa | 4.6 | 0.10 | 0.10 |
| Alifu Alifu | 2.2 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Alifu Dhaalu | 2.8 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Baa | 1.3 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Dhaalu | 1.6 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Faafu | 1.4 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Gaafu Alifu | 1.2 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Gaafu Dhaalu | 2.2 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Gnaviyani | 1.3 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Haa Dhaalu | 9.0 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Kaafu | 2.7 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Lhaviyani | 3.7 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Meemu | 1.4 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Noonu | 2.4 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Raa | 3.0 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Shaviyani | 3.0 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Vaavu | 0.10 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
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.