Country · 9 regions
Where Mali's land ends up, by people and by money
Every block on the map is 0.1% of Mali. By land, Koulikoro holds 7.7%. By people, it holds 21%. Timbuktu goes the other way, from 40% of the land to 5.0% of the people. By GDP, Bamako punches above its population: 11% of the people, 21% of the economy.
GDP for Mali is modelled from its national total, so the GDP map mostly repeats the population map.
| Region | Land | People | GDP |
|---|---|---|---|
| Koulikoro | 7.7 | 21 | 28 |
| Sikasso | 5.7 | 18 | 12 |
| Ségou | 4.8 | 15 | 14 |
| Kayes | 9.8 | 14 | 8.6 |
| Mopti | 6.3 | 13 | 9.0 |
| Bamako | 0.00 | 11 | 21 |
| Timbuktu | 40 | 5.0 | 4.3 |
| Gao | 14 | 3.9 | 3.0 |
| Kidal | 12 | 0.60 | 0.50 |
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.