Country · 32 regions
Where Mexico's land ends up, by people and by money
Every block on the map is 0.1% of Mexico. By land, México holds 1.1%. By people, it holds 14%. Chihuahua goes the other way, from 13% of the land to 3.0% of the people. By GDP, Nuevo León punches above its population: 4.6% of the people, 7.5% of the economy.
| Region | Land | People | GDP |
|---|---|---|---|
| México | 1.1 | 14 | 9.8 |
| Distrito Federal | 0.10 | 7.3 | 9.6 |
| Jalisco | 4.4 | 6.6 | 7.3 |
| Veracruz | 3.4 | 6.4 | 5.1 |
| Puebla | 2.0 | 5.2 | 3.4 |
| Guanajuato | 1.4 | 4.9 | 4.9 |
| Nuevo León | 3.1 | 4.6 | 7.5 |
| Chiapas | 3.5 | 4.4 | 1.8 |
| Michoacán | 3.0 | 3.8 | 3.0 |
| Oaxaca | 4.7 | 3.3 | 1.9 |
| Baja California | 4.2 | 3.0 | 3.9 |
| Chihuahua | 13 | 3.0 | 3.7 |
| Guerrero | 3.3 | 2.8 | 1.7 |
| Tamaulipas | 4.2 | 2.8 | 3.4 |
| Coahuila | 7.9 | 2.5 | 3.8 |
| Hidalgo | 1.0 | 2.4 | 1.9 |
| Sinaloa | 2.9 | 2.4 | 2.4 |
| Sonora | 8.7 | 2.3 | 4.0 |
| San Luis Potosí | 3.5 | 2.2 | 2.4 |
| Querétaro | 0.50 | 1.9 | 2.3 |
| Tabasco | 1.4 | 1.9 | 2.8 |
| Yucatán | 1.9 | 1.8 | 1.5 |
| Morelos | 0.30 | 1.6 | 1.2 |
| Durango | 6.6 | 1.5 | 1.5 |
| Quintana Roo | 2.3 | 1.5 | 1.2 |
| Zacatecas | 3.4 | 1.3 | 1.1 |
| Aguascalientes | 0.20 | 1.1 | 1.4 |
| Tlaxcala | 0.20 | 1.1 | 0.30 |
| Nayarit | 1.6 | 1.0 | 0.90 |
| Campeche | 2.7 | 0.70 | 2.0 |
| Baja California Sur | 3.5 | 0.60 | 1.2 |
| Colima | 0.50 | 0.60 | 0.80 |
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.